Good Morning Sunshine! Don’t Despise The Fire On Your Altar, Let It Continue To Burn!

Leviticus 6:13 ~ “The fire shall be burning continually on the altar; it shall not [be allowed to] go out.”

Hebrews 12:29 ~ “For our God is a consuming fire.”

As we bring this week to an end, let’s really go back and study the Altar and how God is meeting you there and how to never let the Fire go out, it must burn continually! Let’s end with the same scripture that we started our week with!

Let’s really look at this refining process and the purpose for fire, it’s for purification! The Fire of God shows you how God continually works in your life, making you the best version of you and how to live a Holy and Righteous life as a Christian for His Glory! There is a Purpose in the Fire, and if you ever doubted it, spend some true time at the Altar, you will learn. I know what I know now because of the Altar!

You do know that above all else that your heart is deceitful above all things, and it is wicked: who can know it? Nobody but the Lord! Jeremiah 17:9-10! And the Lord is going to reward you according to your heart, (1 Kings 8:39), you cannot escape what’s in your heart, for what’s in you in bound to come out of you! so this why the Altar and the consuming Fire is so important and necessary for you, it cleanses your mind and purifies your heart that you might have right motives and clean hands.

Think about the firing pot, the silver and gold, each one has to be purified by two different pots, but there is only one fire. As you can the silver was tried in the firing pot and the gold in a furnace! Proverbs 17:3 ~ “The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.” But your heart is purified by God through His Fire!  Man can refine silver and gold, but you cannot refine your heart! Nobody can, only God can change your heart, can’t nobody do you like the Lord!

Do you really know what God is a Consuming Fire means? You first need to know what consuming means. It can mean to use up, to destroy or annihilate, or to absorb the attention of someone or something. In the Word it means, plan to cleanse and to purify, to rid sin from your heart and the fire is used as a form of purification and refining. With that being the said, what are the things in your life that you want God to burn off of you and never come back?

What about releasing your fleshly and selfish desires, God wants you to remember who has brought you through your Red Sea! Never ever forget it.  “Be careful not to forget the covenant of the Lord your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the Lord your God has forbidden. For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God” Deuteronomy 4:23-24! This requires that you release any and everything that you have put before God.  As you stay on the Altar, and never let your Fire go out, God’s consuming Fire will burn away everything that is not like Him, and it will keep you from falling into sin and idolatry. You do know that God can’t bless you in your sin. Because to bless you in your sin would violate His Holiness and Righteousness!

God knows you; He knows what you are afraid of and what you boast about, He knows your strengths and weaknesses, your temptations and your secrets, and He knows what sets you off and what shuts you down! So, He refines you of the sins that so easily beset you by burning it away with His consuming fire on the Altar. Humble yourselves before Him, because He will humble you in the furnace of afflictions to test and try your faith in adversity! He will use the firing pot of infirmities to build up your dependence on His Grace!

Another thing, His Consuming Fire is for Him, for His Glory and Majesty. It’s for His Glory and your good. “When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, ‘He is good; his love endures forever’” 2 Chronicles 7:1-3! There is nothing else like being in the Presence of an awesome God! For when He shows up, everything that is around you and in you that would hinder a move of God in your life gets consumed, nothing will be left, for nothing else can stand in His Presence and survive! You have been purified on the Altar and you don’t even smell like smoke, because that’s the kind of God you serve!

So today, fan the flames of the fire through reading and studying the Word of God and lay it all on the Altar! You want your heart, right? Then how can your heart be purged, purified and prepared without going through the fire of God, (Psalm 139:23-24). You must surrender all on the Altar, to get rid of all of your impurities, that they may be moved to the top and God can remove the dross, (dross is everything that hinder the true you from being pure and ready for use), that you will be ready and fit for service in the Kingdom of God, in the earth realm! This is a part of the process, to be purged, purified, and prepared by God’s Consuming Fire! 

The process may be is painful, but the outcome is oh so are Glorious! Today, submit your heart to His Consuming Fire and watch what explodes in your life, the Peace of God and the Love of God will be your portion every day as you have spent quality time in the Presence of your Father and the Shekinah Glory is dwelling upon you!

 Don’t despise the Consuming Fire, embrace it!

Let’s Pray:
Thank You, for the truth of Your Word and for this reminder today to keep my fire burning. Lord, I want the fire of my faith to burn bright and hot for everyone to see! Father please continue to be the passion that fuels the fire in my heart. Father, Thank You! Thank You for purging me by the fire of Your Holy Spirit. Thank You Father, for cleaning and cleaning my mind that I may think like You! Father, continue to burn through me and push the dross and impurities to the surface of my life, because the more dross that You remove, the better I will be! Lord.  Father as You allow Your fire to consume my life, I pray that Your Word becomes an inferno in my life and that it will become ablaze for Your Glory to advance Your kingdom on this earth as I do what You have assigned me to do. Father, I pray that Your fire shall always burn in my life and that it never goes out! Father, purify my heart that I may love like You! Father, guide me, that Your purpose and Presence will shine brightly through me! Father, show me today what to do with the fire that You gave me and how I can share some fuel to get someone else’s fire started. Father, I’m going to praise and worship You through this process, for I know that it is for my good and Your Glory! In the Name of Jesus Christ! Amen!

Blessings…
Minister Jean