Rekindling The Fire
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To “rekindle rekindle the fire” Is a time when we come back home to God, rededicate our lives to him, heeding the word of James in James 4:8
Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.
2 Timothy 1:6 (NLT)
This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you.
Far too long have we settled for just the appetizers while completely forgetting the main course! Too often we stop at false finish lines because the flesh gets excited.
The Holy Spirit is shopping for the place of the next outbreak. He is standing at the front door of our church is looking for someone like David who has repaired a place for his weighty habitation a place where his worshipers are willing to open the door of heaven with their unpraised hands so his glory can come down and stay amongst them.
Bartimaeus couldn’t see Jesus for himself.
As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind beggar was sitting beside the road. When he heard the noise of a crowd going past, he asked what was happening. They told him that Jesus the Nazarene was going by. So he began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”
“Be quiet!” the people in front yelled at him.
But he only shouted louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”
When Jesus heard him, he stopped and ordered that the man be brought to him. As the man came near, Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?”
“Lord,” he said, “I want to see!”
And Jesus said, “All right, receive your sight! Your faith has healed you.” Instantly the man could see, and he followed Jesus, praising God. And all who saw it praised God, too.
We all need to be baptized with the spirit of Bartimaeus. This is the blind man who ignored the disapproval of the crowd to cry out to Jesus for mercy. Bartimaeus couldn’t see Jesus for himself, he was blind and had to believe in blind faith, the testimony of someone else who told him. Jesus is close. We must confess I am blind and can’t really tell how close He is, but if somebody around me says He’s near, then I refuse to let him pass me by.
When you can’t see, feel, or since the presence of God, that is the time to find someone you can trust who can since His presence.
Hungry cries from your heart will attract him closer.
2. Just tell me thats Him
As Jesus passed through the gate, the Blind beggar on the side of the road turned to someone standing nearby and asked a question is that him? Just tell me, is that him.