Keep the Fire Burning Part 1 by Todd Bentley
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By Todd Bentley
My prayer for you is that you would receive a "holy hunger" for intimacy with God. I believe God is going to pour out this gift according to your measure of hunger, according to your desperation. Holy hunger goes hand-in-hand with God's desire to help you stir up and awaken your passion for Him. God deserves our love more than anything in this world. He is worthy. Listen, at his very moment, Jesus Christ is preparing a place for use in our Father's house. We're going to be with Him forever (John 14:2,3). Therefore, it's time to make ourselves ready, even as a bride would get ready for her wedding day and her husband-to-be.
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My prayer for you is that you would receive a "holy hunger" for intimacy with God. I believe God is going to pour out this gift according to your measure of hunger, according to your desperation.
Holy hunger goes hand-in-hand with God's desire to help you stir up and awaken your passion for Him. God deserves our love more than anything in this world. He is worthy. Listen, at his very moment, Jesus Christ is preparing a place for use in our Father's house. We're going to be with Him forever (John 14:2,3). Therefore, it's time to make ourselves ready, even as a bride would get ready for her wedding day and her husband-to-be.
The story of the Shulammite bride in the Songs of Solomon is filled with imagery and intimacy. The confidence of the bride and the spouse in each other gives us a valuable insight into how to fan the flames of desire and stir and awaken out love for God.
1. Get Started:
"My beloved spoke, and said to me, 'Rise up my love, my fair one, and come way'" (Song. 2:10).God is the initiator. He speaks to us. Having said that, though, we still need to get started by responding to Him. So in that sense, it starts with you. How hungry are you? Set a time to meet with God. Set a place. Rise up! Purpose this in your heart and say, "God you are my God! Early will I seek You!" Don't wait for the grace to pray. Pray for the grace to pray. Rise up and say, "I will stir myself up to take hold of God." There are times when the presence of God comes and it's like four hours of glorious Holy Ghost! Then there are other times when you need to purpose in your heart to rise up and pray four hours because you're hungry. So sometimes it just starts with you. Be disciplined.
2. Remember God's Love for You:
"We will remember your love" (Song. 1:4).Something happens in our heart when we remember visitation, when we remember the promises of God. We are stirred when we think back to those days in which we really were experiencing the "rapture of love." Remembering God's love for us is so important, because in the remembering, out hearts are touched once again with God's faithfulness towards us. This helps us to trust Him, and to stir up and awaken lost love.
3. Be a Steward of His Presence:
We need to allow the presence of God to touch us every day. I call it soaking or marinating. More, Lord! We need to allow ourselves to be touched daily by the glory of God. Sometimes I'll wait every day for a whole hour for His presence to come. I'll just lie on the floor and fill up with the Holy Spirit. Spending time with the Holy Spirit soaking in His Presence is crucial to our love relationship with God.
4. Be Redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ:
"I am dark, but lovely" (Song. 1:5).The Shulammite bride is saying (about herself), that she is dark but lovely. Being dark symbolizes sinful desires. She goes on to say, "Don't look upon me, because I am dark" (v.6).It's as if she is saying, "I am dark. Don't look upon me, don't judge me." There is shame, guilt, and condemnation. But the flip side is that she is lovely. I believe that once Jesus Christ has redeemed us we become lovely (1 Pet. 1:18-23).
To be continued.
Todd Bentley
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What are you going to do when all the wells are stopped up? What are you going to do when all the wells run dry? If you're a well, if you're a source, you don't have to worry about it. You've got to be able to be deep enough that when the wells dry up, when there's no dew, when there's no rain, when there's no fountain, when there's famine in the land, when there's drought—you've got to learn how to be close enough to God. For those that are close enough to Him even in the time of famine, He's got a brook. In the midst of the famine, if you're close enough to God and you know how to be deep with God, He'll bring you to your own brook and He'll feed you.
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You can either be a well for God or you can drink from the fountain. God is saying, "I want to make you a well." God has many different kinds of wells, and He wants you to be a well. I had a vision of a prophetic word that was given to me just a couple of weeks ago when I was in Mission. I was so filled with the wine of the Holy Spirit, and I was talking about dignity. I said, "Would you lose your dignity for the presence of God?" Then right in the middle of my message, I made this statement, "I don't just want to put my face in the well of God. I don't just want to drink from the well of God. In fact, I am getting so hungry and desperate for Jesus, I want to fall in the well. Then when I fall in the well, I want to swim down to the bottom of the well, and that's where I want to live. I want to be like Gideon in the winepress. I want to be at the bottom of the winepress."
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"So the Lord said to Moses: 'See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh…'" (Exodus 7:1) In this article we will examine more thoroughly what God has in store for us if we choose to fully live out the Great Commission. You will come to understand the differences between healings, miracles, signs and wonders and will grow in faith to see their operation in your life. I believe if we can have a revelation of God as creator, then we can have faith to believe for creative miracles and to minister them. When we see the creative nature of the Holy Spirit and His creative power in us, we will say creative miracles are easy. The gospel is salvation, healing and deliverance to the body, soul and spirit.
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