"Do you understand now what the consuming fire is?"
Father Yahweh has asked me this week after week. I could never answer with a certainty. It was at that point that He would always say, "It's not time yet."
But now, yes now...I understand.
What is the consuming fire? It's His glory, and it's your death. Maybe not death in the literal sense of you physically dying; but it is as He told Adam, "In dying, you shall die." See when sin entered the Earth, it brought the physical death. But His glory was SO strong...SO MAJESTIC, SO POWERFUL, SO SUPERNATURAL in Adam that He LIVED physically 900 years before He actually died. However, I believe it was the spirit of Adam that DIED more instantly. More than that, it was the oneness that Adam and Eve shared with the Most High. He said, "IN DYING..you SHALL DIE." That's two deaths. He died physically but He also died spiritually. The GLORY of the MOST HIGH was taken from him and his wife. Why? Because HE IS HOLY. He could not be a partaker of the sinful nature of Adam.
The consuming fire is His presence, His power, His very glory manifested IN US. And when THIS happens, the same glory that Yeshua walked in is available to us! So why do we feel like we're missing out when we come to Him and He tells us we need to walk upright? Why do we feel like it's a such thing as "too holy" when HE has said "BE YE HOLY." Better yet, why do we trample on the works of the cross and believe that our Savior died for us to live willingly sinful LIVES? We've not understood what it means to be His child. We believe that He is so far away and because of this, apparently He understands that "we're only human" and "He knows our hearts."
Who has duped us into believing that the glory of our Father is intangible?; because after all - THAT is what the consuming fire is. It's HIM burning EVERYTHING up in YOU that doesn't LOOK LIKE HIM. He requires you to be a "reflection of him" on Earth. People see you and sense you and they should see HIM. So therefore, our lifestyles should reflect the LIGHT that is within us.
YOU belong to Him and if HE is CONSUMING YOU, there is no other way to reflect HIM but to DIE that you may truly LIVE. That means, you make HIM BIG. He's a jealous God. He doesn't want to share your body with a man that hasn't entered into covenant with you. He's a jealous God. He doesn't want to share your ears with things that don't glorify Him and glorify the adversary, Satan. He's a jealous God. He doesn't want to share His glory with eyes that are focused on things that glorify Satan and this world and not Him.
Yes. That means every single thought that you think is on Him, His goodness, His greatness, and manifesting His PRESENCE on the Earth. This is SEPARATION but be not confused - THIS IS FREEDOM. Let's study a bit, shall we?
Why does the Most High describe Himself as a
CONSUMING fire?
Let's look at the Strong's defintion in the context of Deuteronomy 4:24 :
The KJV translates Strong's H398 in the following manner: eat (604x), devour (111x), consume (32x), miscellaneous (55x).Outline of Biblical Usage [?] to eat, devour, burn up, feed (Qal) to eat (human subject) to eat, devour (of beasts and birds) to devour, consume (of fire) to devour, slay (of sword) to devour, consume, destroy (inanimate subjects - ie, pestilence, drought) to devour (of oppression) (Niphal) to be eaten (by men) to be devoured, consumed (of fire) to be wasted, destroyed (of flesh) (Pual) to cause to eat, feed with to cause to devour (Hiphil) to feed to cause to eat (Piel) consume
Reference - Blue Letter Bible
1.
to destroy or expend by use; use up. 2. to eat or drink up; devour. 3.to destroy, as by decomposition or burning: Fire consumed the forest. 4. to spend (money, time, etc.) wastefully. 5. to absorb; engross: consumed with curiosity.
Now, let us look at the word "consuming"
Now, let us look at the word "consuming"
adjective
- (of a feeling) completely filling one's mind and attention; absorbing.
"a consuming passion"
So in looking at this "consuming" fire defined. What do we get? HE WANTS ALL OF US. We MUST fully surrender or we absolutely cannot access the glory, the power, the tangible presence of Yahweh on our lives, in our lives, and through our lives.
to the song "House of Prayer." I was in a very dark place in my life and had prayed for my Father to draw my heart back. Darkness I do not feel led to share at the moment but the Spirit within me called out to my spirit and gave me enough sense for me to ask for the holy power of Yahweh to consume me. I'd gotten far away from purity, far away from my first love. I just knew that I was under dangerous territory. That day at church, he burned me. I felt it. I screamed. I flung off my jacket. I praised. I worshiped. I cried. And then I began to get distracted with my mind wondering what the ladies sitting next to me were thinking. I didn't want to hit them, nor hurt them in this seemingly uncontrollable experience but I knew that I was having an outer body experience like never before (or at least I couldn't remember it). And His presence lifted.But the glory...the glory that's attainable is so joyous. We're not missing anything in the world. We're not missing anything glorifying the devil with lifestyles that worship him. We're NOT missing out. He's such a jealous God for us because He KNOWS that the devil cannot give us what HE can. He knows that the devil hates us and will never love us like HE loves us. He knows the devil could never BLESS us like HE blesses us. He SINGS over us! He REJOICES over us with GLADNESS. He made an entire world FOR US TO DOMINATE. He created an entire Eden. And no matter how much we hurt Him, HE still LOVES US and FORGIVES US.
BUT. HE. IS. A. CONSUMING FIRE.
Let him consume you today!
Look at for next week's blog "A Call to Purity"
Look at for next week's blog "A Call to Purity"