God Who Answers By Fire

"Then you call on the name of your god,

and I will call on the name of the Lord,

and the God who answers by fire, He is God."

"Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed

the burnt offering and the wood and the stones

and the dust, and licked up the water that was

in the trench. And when all the people saw it,

they fell on their faces; and they said, 

"The Lord, He is God; the Lord, He is God"

1 Kings 24,38,39

Our God, "the God who answers by fire" wants to show Himself powerful and with holy fire in this hour through the hearts of His people, a fire that is all consuming, a fire that burns up the dross and residue from the spirit of this world. Our God is calling us to be layed down lovers, living sacrifices that are not perfect but are lovers of God that have hearts that are yielded and submitted to Him, that are willing to give it all for the sake of the call so that His kingdom may come here on earth and in our lives as it is in heaven. He is calling us to be that sacrifice that is holy and acceptable to Him that will lay our lives down on the alter, that will stand in the gap and will call heaven down to earth. Our God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God, a God after the heart of man, a God that is unrelenting in His love towards us, a God that is shaking everything that can be shaken so that eyes will be opened, ears will be unstopped and hearts will become soft and pliable to His Word and will. Our God, "the God who answers by fire" is calling us to turn from our idols and our stumbling blocks that have kept us from knowing Him, that have kept us from fully embracing all that He has for us, that has kept us from embracing the fullness of the call upon our lives for this crucial hour. The world has got to SEE JESUS. The world has got to see that He is real, that He is alive, that He is alive and living IN US. The world has got to see His power and His love and His undeniable truth exemplified in our lives, the proof and evidence that the living God is truly alive and has the power to change lives and circumstances.

God is calling us. So let us answer His call and lay our lives down as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God that we may not be conformed to this world, but that we may be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so that we may be able to prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1,2) Let us be filled with His Spirit and walk not according to the flesh but according to the leading of His Holy Spirit. Let us be that living evidence to the world that Jesus is alive, that He is living in us, that we walk different from the world, and in this different walk and different way that He answers by fire and with evidence.

Come fire of God. Come with Your holy fire. We lay our lives down on the altar with all our dreams, with all our visions and aspirations, with all our achievements and failures so that You may come and consume the sacrifice of our hearts and lives. We present ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to You that we would not be conformed to this world, but that we would be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Come fire of God, consume the sacrifice! Show Yourself mighty in our lives, show Yourself mighty before the people of this world. Let them see a God that answers by fire. Let them see a God that has consumed this sacrifice and has left evidence of His power and greatness. We lay our lives down on the altar for You, O God. Come and consume us! Send us out in the power and spirit of Elijah. Send us out consumed by Your love, giving evidence of Your power and glory to this dying world. We call on You, O God.  We call on YOU.
We lay it all down and call upon Your consuming fire, so that all that would be left would be pure and holy and would shine forth Your glory. Amen and amen