Fuel for the Fire

"And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; an they were all filled with the Holy Spirit" (Acts 4:31)

A church can go on holding the creed and the truth for generations and grow old. New people can follow and receive that same code and also grow old. Then some revivalist comes in and fires his guns and get everybody stirred, and prayer moves God down on the scene and revival comes to that church.

People who thought they were saved get saved. People who had only believed in a code now believe in Christ. And what has really happened? It is simply New Testament Christianity; it is what Christianity should have been from the beginning.

The Holy Spirit will not come on a church where there is no biblical body of truth. The Holy Spirit never comes into a vacuum, but where the Word of God is, there is fuel, and the fire falls and burns up the sacrifice.

His Word is not mere intellectual light, but spiritual life and celestial fire. Read it with burning hearts and glowing love as the love letter to His affection and the mirror of His face.

_________________________

The Knowing

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God" (Romans 8:16)

I know what Charles Wesley meant when he wrote, "His Spirit answers to the blood, And tells me I am born of God!" No one had to come and tell me what he meant. "Those who are willing to do my will," said Jesus in effect, "shall have a revelation in their own heats. They shall have an inward illumination that tells them they are children of God."

If a sinner goes to the altar and a worker with a marked New Testament argues him into the kingdom, the devil will meet him two blocks down the street and argue him out of it again. But if he has an inward illumination - that witness within - because the Spirit answers to the blood, you cannot argue with such a man... He will say, "But I KNOW!"

A man like that is not bigoted or arrogant; he is just "sure". This is NORMAL Christianity. That is the way we should be. If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out. He will "know".

If you are a friend to God, God will be an everlasting friend to you. Nothing shall separate you from His love.

~A. W. Tozer~