08/05/2023
● HOW TO ATTRACT THE FIRE OF GOD INTO YOUR LIFE|| ELIJAH AND THE PROPHETS OF BAAL ON MOUNT CARMEL|| ●
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Everything around us in this world God created can be used to learn or teach something, for example for one make a fire they will need dry wood, matches and some soft dry grass to create a fire easily and surely that guarantees one having a fire made.
Similarly, in olden bible times we can all agree what the priest's duty was, bringing an acceptable sacrifices before God on behalf of one individual for the remission of their sins. Better explained in Numbers 18.
Focusing on the prophetic doings of the Prophet Elijah on mount Carmel.📌
Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here to me." They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which was in ruins. 🗒( An altar is a place of offering sacrifices or burning incense by a chief priest to God on behalf of the people, for a Christian today your altar is a place of Prayer or your prayer life, so for one to ATTRACT that fire of God your prayer life must be alive or active first).
31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Your name shall be Israel."
32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed. 🗒( the digging of the trench around the altar here means barricading your body and life by putting on the whole armor of God as described in Eph 6:10_18).
33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, "Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood."🗒(The cutting of the bull and cutting it in pieces means killing the desires of the flesh (body) as described in Galatians 5:19-21 & Galatians 5:24) 🗒The water poured here signifies the word of God which we can use to tame the body and overcome the rotting in eternity).
34 "Do it again," he said, and they did it again. "Do it a third time," he ordered, and they did it the third time. 🗒(The repeated pouring of of water 3 times, the number 3 means resurrection hence, we are made alive by the fullness of his word (Jesus himself) in our lives).
35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench. 🗒(The strength of your body armor and victory or seeing the needed results is dependant on how saturated you are with the word of God John 15:7).
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
37 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again."
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD-he is God.
🗒There was a sacrifice that was presented on the altar for the fire to come down and consume the sacrifice, a worthy sacrifice before God ATTRACTs the fire of God.
🗒For Christians we are urged in Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship.
N.B There is no fire without a sacrifice, don't yield to the desires of your body but yield to the desires of the spirit in you by so doing we subdue you flesh and its lusts and ATTRACT the fire of God over our lives, church, community and country.
💛💚💙 BE BLESSED BRETHREN■