LORD, CIRCUMCISE OUR HEARTS

When we don’t want to be hurt, we usually run away from the source of the pain. We do everything to suppress or hide the pain. Oftentimes we put a thick covering in our hearts to be able to protect ourselves from being hurt.

I also found myself running and I had put a cover in some part of my heart. I thought to myself that it is okay. But during my prayer, Daddy God asked me, “Child, why do you cover your heart?” I honestly answered Him, “Because I don’t want to be hurt.” I cried for a while. Daddy God said that He wants me to experience and feel the pain. I don’t understand why He wants me to be hurt. I don’t understand why I need to be hurt. There are many things that I don’t understand about Him. But I know that His ways and thoughts are higher than ours and all His ways are for our own good.

I asked Him, “Why Daddy? Why do I need to feel this pain? Why do I need to be hurt over and over again?” Then He said that He does not want a heart that is hard and numb. He said that He wants me to completely open my heart so He will be able to circumcise it.

He told me that my heart before was covered by a shield. That shield keeps me from all pain and hurts. That shield keeps my heart numb and selfish and hard. When I have known Him, He opens my heart and made me experience what it feels like to be hurtful of my own sins and sins of others, to feel the pain of others, and to feel the pain of longing after Him.

Daddy God said that if He will not continuously circumcise my heart, it will someday become hard and numb and selfish again. A hard, numb and selfish heart does not know how to love others. A hard, numb and selfish heart seeks its own comfort and happiness. A hard, numb and selfish heart is deaf in hearing God’s voice.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.” 2 Corinthians 1:3-6

After knowing the reason why, I have asked Daddy to give me a brave heart so I may be able to endure every pain and suffering. I told Him that I don’t want to cover my heart anymore. I don’t want a hard, numb and selfish heart. I’ve asked Him to make me brave and strong as a lion but gentle and meek like a lamb.

Daddy God wants us to be lambs just like Jesus. When Jesus suffered on the cross, it was the most painful experience but He willingly suffers and gave His life for us.

As a Christian, I have learned that we shouldn’t be surprised if we are experiencing sufferings and pain. All true Christians do not really have a happy, joyous living. It is because the path that Christians follow is full of suffering, pain and of bearing our own crosses. But we must endure until the end.  Someday, there will be no pain, no crying, no suffering anymore.

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:4

Are we willing to suffer the pain even with or without comfort from God? Are we willing to allow Him to circumcise our hearts no matter how painful it is?

“Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.” Jeremiah 4:4

“And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” Deuteronomy 30:6

“But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” Romans 2:29 

Lord, I am sorry for covering my heart. I am sorry for being selfish and for always seeking for comfort. Give me a brave heart Lord. Give me a brave heart to follow Your commands and to continue to walk at the narrow path no matter how hard it is. I willingly give my heart LORD. Circumcise my heart so I may be able to love You with all my heart and soul forever. Amen.

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

The things that God desires from us -Pastor Kim, Yong Doo

Micah 6:6-8 (AMP) With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?

People are impossible to train if they do not possess essential characteristics. Because we hold on to things that we consider very important, God uses trials and hardships to discipline us. We can never be trained properly due to the sufficiency of daily life and the abundance that surrounds us through culture and civilization. We are finally trained properly when our circumstances and conditions become poor and difficult. When we have been stripped and with nothing left to rely on to face difficulties, we are now ripe to be trained.

When God disciplines or trains His chosen people, it is not because He does not love us. He is training and disciplining us to be set apart as His Holy people. When we are faced with difficult circumstances, we can be trained as we dig ourselves in prayer. If we are not placed in difficult situations, we will not be afflicted to the point where we would run to God in prayer. It is through difficulties that God compels us to pray. Our lives can be pictured as passing through continuous mountains. Our lives are filled with countless and continuous obstacles. All those obstacles and mountains are training grounds for us to enter into heaven. Because of the process, we are prepared incrementally a step at a time.

In the days of Micah, the idea or definition of God by the Israelis was incorrect. The way they approached God was incorrect. If we read today’s sermon scripture (Micah 6:6-8), it appears as though nothing is wrong. But we must discern what God may think is important. God desires us to live according to His Will and He wants us to change.

Generally, we miss the point of God’s will and we end up wandering in circles. We are then out of focus and our focus must be aligned with God’s will. It does not matter how much money we have. If we do not properly believe or know Jesus, then our lives are still wandering in circles. It would be as a person attending church and was not saved. It would be such a pity for that person.

Many people desire to experience the full blessings of God. They want to experience the Living God. In fact, they try eagerly to find out what they must do to be blessed and experience Him. But it is not that easy. We often think we are prepared and ready to be used, especially as we go through trials and tribulations. But in reality, we are not even close to being ready.

As John Wesley led the ‘Holy Club’, he emphasized prayer, bible study, and helping the poor. He had once traveled on a ship headed to America. He was fearful of the heavy seas and he shivered. But as he witnessed the Moravian saints who were in the same ship praising hymns and giving thanks to God, he was extremely shocked. With this experience, he was assured of his salvation and no longer doubted. Even though we may be saved, God prevents us from guaranteeing our own salvation. Even though we are within the assurance of salvation, God mentions through His Holy Words for us to continuously work out our salvation with trembling and fear (Philippians 2:12).

Israel was in much distress due to their spiritual sin. In their distress, they attempted to resolve their issues. However, their method was incorrect. They attempted to utilize their own effort to worship God. They did not worship as God desired. Israel desired to have an encounter with God. Therefore, they sacrificed a one year old calf but it didn’t work. They then sacrificed one thousand lambs but that didn’t work either. They then gave huge amounts of oil that would have filled 10,000 course of a river but that didn’t work as well. When all failed, they went as far as to give up their first born on the altar to sacrifice like the gentiles did. Israel thought God was the one who was being silent, quiet, and still. They thought God was nonchalant. Therefore, the Israelis thought in order to get the attention of God or get Him to move, they had to do something special.

God is very interested in all the things that are occurring in this world whether it is trivial or significant (Psalm 121:3-4, Jeremiah 33:3). Even though it may appear that God is either silent or still, He is still working. It is simply a different way of working than how we perceive work to be defined with our finite minds.

God is very gentle in character. He works and manifests His Word in a gentle way. God has already given all of the revelation through His written Word, the 66 books in the bible. God revealed Himself. He revealed His thoughts, heart, and actions. It does not matter how one’s revelation is holy and spiritual, we must first reflect it through His Word and then discern it. We must sort it out and clarify it.

People are the instruments that God utilizes. People are God’s living instrument and pathways. Therefore, if we want to be used, our character must first be changed. Our character being defined as thought, emotions, and will. God will utilize the people who are dressed in holiness and cleansed. God will use them as His pathway (James 4:8, Joshua 3:5).

Without thinking or evaluating one’s unbelief, unchanged characteristic, and personality, one cannot just go ask God to show Himself or ask Him to move on their behalf. It is unreasonable thinking. God will use a person according to the measure of their faith. If a person or church has much faith, God can actively utilize the individual or church. Once a man named Moses was trained and became a man of significant faith. As a result, the mighty events of Exodus occurred. God is determined to set His plans in motion but if there are no persons available for Him to utilize as His pathway, He cannot work. If there are no individuals to utilize, God will become silent. He can be silent for hundreds of years if there are no individuals or people to use. We must become a powerful pathway for God so that He can work powerfully and mightily through us.

What God desires in us are our actions to be justly, love mercy, and walk in humility with our God (Micah 6:8). Let us change our thoughts, emotions, and our way of looking at faith. Let us just pour out our being from the inside out before God. If you pour out what is deeply inside your thoughts and heart to your spouse or family, you will most likely end up fighting with your emotions.

The bible has instructions on what we should do and what we shouldn’t do. Do not try to find another manual outside the bible. If we shake off every old emotion, regrets, complaints, He will then speak to us. He will listen and fix us. We must come before the Lord and shake all the junk off without relying on any other source. Only then will our faith get stronger and the areas that were distorted or twisted are restored and straightened. Furthermore, our thoughts will be more board, our faith will be restored, and our thought and minds that were once deluded and ruled by man will be restored and we eventually will come to our senses.

Do not wander in the wrong places but let us come to the temple. Come to God! Let us fix and restore the areas that are in error. God will then use us as His pathway and His instrument.

The Lord’s Church

Sermon by Pastor Kim, Yong Doo, Incheon, S.Korea

Author of Baptize by Blazing Fire

Translated by Yoojin and Steve Kim

May 15, 2010

Love must endure to the end

In our prayers last night, the Lord said, if you Love Him, you will not quit but cling on to Him until the very end. Many are angry and offended at Him because they have not yet received their promises or breakthroughs as promised by Him. But He said they are not necessarily delayed but time is required to cleanse you. Either let His Fire finish the work or you can run because the heat is too intense. If one runs, it just delays the process.

Time is also used to test you. We will all be tested throughout our lives. Brethren, I beseech you to draw close to HIM now while many of you are in your comfort for dark and difficult days are rapidly approaching us. He has told us that He must allow it to become darker so His Light will shine brigher. Many of His people today are lukewarm and they can only see gray right now.

He said that True Love endures to the very end. You must cling onto Him for dear life. Love does not leave. Love does not quit. Love does not throw in the towel. Love will sacrifice and die if necessary. Love will finish. Love does not forsake.

2 Chronicles 15:2(AMP) And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him, craving Him as your soul’s first necessity], He will be found by you; but if you [become indifferent and] forsake Him, He will forsake you.

Many can say they love the Lord and even to one another. But your love must be proved through life as you go through your trials and tribulations. We suffer to learn obedience. We can either go through our wildernesses praising or complaining to Him. We can either make it to the promise land or die in our wildernesses.

Hebrews 5:8 (AMP) Although He was a Son, He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered

Mark 4:37-38 (AMP)And a furious storm of wind [[a]of hurricane proportions] arose, and the waves kept beating into the boat, so that it was already becoming filled.38But He [Himself] was in the stern [of the boat], asleep on the [leather] cushion; and they awoke Him and said to Him, Master, do You not care that we are perishing?

If we are immature baby Christians, we will generally cry out to the Lord like the disciples did on the boat out of fear. “Do you not care that we are perishing?” I am sure many of us have shouted that to the Lord, “Do you not care!!”

But the Lord replied in verse 40,  “He said to them, Why are you so timid and fearful? How is it that you have no faith (no [s]firmly relying trust)?”

Faith is not something that just appears out of thin air. Faith is not just an emotion or a thought. If faith can start like the size of a musturd seed which can move a mountain, then faith must be planted and grown. Faith is something we learn through our experiences and it grows and builds confidence as we learn God comes through in the mist of our storms.

If we have not experienced or learned how God comes through for us, it is difficult to trust what we have not experienced. The disciples had already knew such a storm was dangerous and reacted in negative faith which resulted in fear. They had experienced many storms. How many times had they experienced the Lord calming the storm and seas? If they had experienced the Lord calming the seas before, they would be more confident knowing they can trust in the Lord as the storm got stronger.

How are we to learn to trust the Lord if we are not put in situations to lean on Him experiencing and watching Him come through? Many times, His people do not stick around long enough for their prayers to be answered. Our cultures are a breeding ground countermeasuring the fruit of the Holy Spirit. We must learn patience and long suffering. We must learn eternal patience and eternal long suffering. We must understand His time and how He works in our lives not the other way around.

We can be like a spiritual child throwing a tantrum as a child does in a store wanting a toy or we can learn patience asking in obedience. When we do not get the things we want or in the time we desire, the basic question is are we going to get mad and quit on God or will we continue to humble ourselves and wait until He says we are ready? True Love waits and continues. It is not about our time but His time. Do NOT lose your JOY for that is your strength in the Lord. If He says soon to you, you must understand the word “soon” in the context of eternal or infinte soon and not in our finite time of soon.

Persevere and endure in all things. Yes, He is returning for you but you must hold on to the end!!
Matthew 10:22 (AMP) And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake, but he who perseveres and endures to the end will be saved [[a]from spiritual disease and death in the world to come].

Hebrews 3:8-13 (AMP) Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and [a]embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,9Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and [b]found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.10And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.11 Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.12 [Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God.13 But instead warn (admonish, urge, and encourage) one another every day, as long as it is called Today, that none of you may be hardened [into settled rebellion] by the deceitfulness of sin [by the fraudulence, the stratagem, the trickery which the delusive glamor of his sin may play on him].

Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
December 7, 2011

WAIT WITH PATIENCE

“But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.” Romans 8:25

Waiting with patience is one of the most difficult things for Christians. We tend to be impatient because we feel like we don’t have much time. We feel like time is running so fast and we don’t want to waste it for nothing. We want things to be done right away. We want to get what we want immediately when we needed it. We want all our prayers and God’s promises be answered fast. What if God tell us to wait? Are we going to wait patiently or are we going to do things ahead of His plans?

Many of us cannot wait for the Lord so we tend to do things in our own way. We often think that it is okay to do our own plans and we think that God will still guide us through. But Daddy God told me that if I choose the other way besides the way that He prepared for me, He will not be there with me anymore. When He said this, I became afraid for I don’t want to be outside of God’s guidance and protection. I want Him to lead my life and this can only be done if I will fully submit myself to God.

How can we say that we are submitting ourselves to God when every time our prayers were not answered we tend to find our own solutions to our problems? How can we say that we are submitting ourselves to God when we do our own selfish plans without the Lord’s leading, and many of us still think that God will still be there to guide us.

As we can read in the Bible, God’s people patiently waited for the fulfillment of God’s promise. Abraham waited for 25 years before he had his promise son Isaac. “And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.” Hebrews 6:15 God gave Abraham the promise of having a son at the age of seventy-five. He believed God and He waited patiently. He was one hundred years old when Sarah gave birth to Isaac. But during that time period of waiting, Sarah became impatient so she made her own plan. She made her maidservant Hagar slept with Abraham and so Hagar conceived and gave birth to Ishmael. But even Abraham had his son Ishmael, He still kept His promise. Sarah, in her old age, gave birth to Isaac.

Daddy God does not delay His promises. It is us who think that it is being delayed or being late based in our standard time frame. When God makes a promise it will surely come to pass. But it is not always at the time that we wanted. It must be according to His appointed time. There is a time for everything. And all we need to learn is to wait for His perfect time. Our God is a patient God. He is long suffering. He owns all time.

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8) 

We must all learn to wait with patience. Sometimes, Daddy God is testing us through time to see if we will patiently endure trials and graciously handle the blessings that He has given us. Sometimes, Daddy God is testing us through time to see if we will continually seek His face and obey Him despite difficult circumstances. And sometimes, Daddy God is testing us through time to see if your faith in Him will never fade away no matter how long is the fulfillment of His promise.

“Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.” James 5:7

“Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.” Jude 1:21

May we all wait with patience to God, allowing Him to lead our life according to His plans.

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

Judging in SPIRIT vs. Judging in FLESH

After keeping silent for days, I feel like I am not doing the right thing so I asked HIM in my prayer, “Daddy, I’m afraid to tell them the truth. I am afraid to tell them that what they are doing is wrong. Who am I to judge? But I know that I should help them know the truth. I’m afraid to hurt their feelings.”

He said, “Child, whenever I let you know your faults, does it hurt?” I answered, “Yes Daddy.” He said, “Truth hurts. But it is better to tell the truth. Speaking the uncompromised truth of My Word can bring conviction to those who do not want to be convicted, and this can bring them to repentance. You know that I would rather see My children being convicted or being hurt by their sins than to see them staying in darkness and sin.”

“Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.” Psalm25:8

I asked Him again, “But Daddy, You are the only One who has the right to judge them and not us, for You are the righteous judge. Who are we to judge?”

And He said, “Child, there’s a difference between judging in flesh and judging in spirit. You must judge in spirit and not in flesh. When you judge in My Spirit and in My truth, it is not only you who judge but it is My judgment also.”

I pondered to what He told me for a moment and I prayed and asked Him to help me judge in Spirit and in His truth. I prayed to Him to give me the courage to speak His Words to others because it leads to life.

After my prayer, I searched for Bible verses about judgment and I’m blessed because I found exactly the passages related to what Daddy God told me.  Praise Him!

JESUS said, “You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. Yet even if I do judge, My judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.” John 8:15-16

“The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.” 1 Corinthians 2:15

“Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!” 1 Corinthians 6:2-3

I have learned from Daddy that there’s a difference between judging in Spirit and judging in flesh. Judging in Spirit means judging in God’s truth. When we judge in spirit, we do not judge by impulse, or by anger, or by flesh but in love. Our judgment is true because it is not only us who judge but God. We must discern carefully. We must ask first for God’s guidance. Whenever we judge in Spirit we must do it with fear and trembling.

“Brothers, if someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.” Galatians 6:1

“Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.” 2 Thessalonians 3:15

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Matthew 18:15-17

On the other hand, judging in flesh is a different thing. When we judge out of envy or hatred then we are judging in flesh. When we judge because of our own selfish interests, then we are judging in flesh. When we try to find fault in others to prove that we are smarter, better, or good, then we are judging in flesh. When we simply want to feel better about ourselves and we compare ourselves to others, then we are judging in flesh. When we judge others of their sins, yet we refuse to see the planks in our own eye, then we are judging in flesh.

“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:3-5

“Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?” James 4:11-12

“Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.” James 5:9

“Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” John 7:24

“Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?” Romans 2:3

I thought about keeping silent and this bible verse came into my mind, “But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.” Ezekiel 33:6

May we all judge in His Spirit and Truth!

ALL GLORY TO OUR RIGHTEOUS JUDGE- FATHER GOD, JESUS AND HOLY SPIRIT!

December 7, 2011

It is easier to fall than to get up

Remember, it is easier to get it wrong than right. It is easier to fall than to get up. It is easier to be deceived than to be in the Truth. It is easier to let pride speak instead of letting humility not speak. It is easier to quit than to persevere and endure. It is easier to run away rather than to hold your ground. It is easier to sleep than pray. It is easier to watch TV than to read the Word. It is easier to vegetate than to worship. It is easier to be restless instead of waiting for HIM. It is easier to hate than to love.

It is easier to say, “I love you” than it is to live it. It is easier not to forgive than to forgive. It is easier to gossip and speak negative rather than positive of others. It is easier not to say “I’m sorry than to apologize. It is easier to get addicted than to get FREE. It is easier to hide in darkness than to come into the Light to be exposed. It is a easier choice to become depressed than to stay in your joy.

It is easier to find the gates of HELL than the gates of Heaven. It is easier to be a friend to the world than to forsake it. It is easier to react in the flesh rather than in the spirit. It is easier to make excuses blaming others rather than taking responsibility. It is easier to be overwhelmed than to overcome. It is easier to fall away than to stay on the path. It is easier to become corrupted than to stay honest. It is easier to accept a watered down gospel than to accept the FULL COUNSEL of God.

IT IS EASIER TO DISOBEY GOD THAN TO OBEY HIM. IT IS EASIER TO BREAK HIS COMMANDMENTS THAN TO UPHOLD IT. IT IS EASIER TO WALK THE WIDER ROAD THAN THE NARROW ROAD. IT IS EASIER TO FOLLOW GOD YOUR WAY THAN HIS WAY.

Luke 13:23-24(AMP)And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them,24Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it], for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Matthew 7:21(AMP) Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father Who is in heaven.

Luke 14:27(AMP) Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.

Luke 14:33-35(AMP) So then, any of you who does not forsake (renounce, surrender claim to, give up, [a]say good-bye to) ALL that he has cannot be My disciple.34Salt is good [an excellent thing], but if salt has lost its strength and has become saltless (insipid, flat), how shall its saltness be restored? 35 It is fit neither for the land nor for the manure heap; men throw it away. He who has ears to hear, let him listen and consider and comprehend by hearing!

May you all OVERCOME your trials, tests, and personal tribulations. I speak the POWER to OVERCOME over your lives! Fire of God! May your lives be His Will. May your lives be for His Glory. May your lives be a song to Him. May your lives be a Praise to Him. Fire of God!

1 John 5:3-4(AMP)For the [true] love of God is this: that we do His commands [keep His ordinances and are mindful of His precepts and teaching]. And these orders of His are not irksome (burdensome, oppressive, or grievous).4 For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith.

Fire of God!
Steve Yong Kim

Authority is granted as you submit to His Authority

Luke 10:19 (AMP) Behold! I have given you Authority and Power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you.

Many Christians do not realize this is conditional to their FULL submission to the Lordship of Jesus and His Authority. If you do not submit, you relinquish that authority and thus you give the enemy the right to drag you in the dirt all day long.

If you are given a management position with people under you, then as long as you follow the directions of your superior and abide by the governing laws of the company, your authority, influence, and power is continued.

If you are a commander in an army, your power, influence, and authority comes from another who is higher than you. If you disobey him or the office of that power, you may lose that authority to command other below you.

Authority is only continued and granted as long as you follow the directions of your superiors and the governing laws for such authority.

If one abuses that power, breaks the rules and laws, and disobeys, do you really think such authority and power will be continually granted?

If we are to drive and cast out demons healing the sick, then we need the Lord’s Power and Authority for such authority comes from Him. If we possess the Lord’s authority, then His authority is Higher than that of the devil and the demons and therefore, they must submit and go. However, if we are not in possession of that authority through Him, the demons do not have to listen to us and go.

Adam and Eve originally had the authority over the earth and they had relinquished that authority to the devil when they disobeyed and sinned. If you continue to sin, you continue to give the devil authority over your lives and he will bring havoc, torment, destruction, and chaos onto you.

Fully Surrender and submit to Jesus following His commandments and Word so He may give you the authority over the devil. Live Holy and give the devil nothing to claim on you!

John 14:30 (AMP) I will not talk with you much more, for the prince (evil genius, ruler) of the world is coming. And he has no claim on Me. [He has nothing in common with Me; there is nothing in Me that belongs to him, and he has no power over Me.]

Fire of God

Steve Yong Kim

http://fireofgodservants.blogspot.com/

“THE LORD LOOKED AT ME AND ASKED, WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING?”

“THE LORD LOOKED AT ME AND ASKED, WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING?”
A word concerning the Lost and Hell
The following is something I experienced
Jan. 28th, 2000 / 8:15 pm

THE WHITE THRONE
I saw the Lord sitting on a large white throne. A long long line of people were gathered before Him. I was standing to the side observing all of this. I was bewildered by the fact that all of these people had no faces. Where their face should have been, there was just a blank. Each time a person came before the Lord, He would open up a book and read out of it all the things this person had done.

EACH PERSON BEGAN TO SCREAM

Everything was recorded; and the Lord read the whole book from beginning to end. Every person in this particular line was being judged, and condemned to hell. Each time the Lord would tell each person they were condemned, the person would begin to scream, and cry, and beg the Lord for just one more chance. The Lord had tears rolling down His own cheeks, but would shake His head, telling each person they had had plenty of opportunities to repent and live for Him. This went on for quite some time.

Finally, the Lord looked over at me, and asked me, “Why aren’t you doing anything?” I was confused. “What would you have me to do, Lord?” I replied. “Pray,” the Lord replied.

So, I began to pray, but not really with any fervency. After a short time of this, the Lord turned to me with concern and said, “Look at these people. Really look at them.” As I did so, their faces came into focus. They became people I knew vaguely. They were acquaintances. I began to pray a bit more fervently for them. After a time, the Lord turned to me again with stronger sternness, and said, “Look at these people once again.” Now the people became friends.

PRAY HARDER

“You must pray harder, ” the Lord admonished me. I began to pray a bit harder. But still, the long line of people would come before the Lord, He would read them their life’s story from their own personal book, and then be condemned. Once again the Lord turned to me, this time in anger. He was still weeping over the souls who were being condemned.

“Do you really understand and comprehend what is happening here?” the Lord asked me. “Behold !!” Then, a hole opened up behind the long line of people. I glanced towards the hole. There was an awful darkness coming from it. I heard screams, and shouts, and wails, and moans coming from the hole. “Go and look,” the Lord commanded me. I didn’t want to. I was scared, but it was as if a hand were at my back forcing me to the edge of this black hole.

When I reached the edge of this black hole, I glanced down in it. Then, I drew back in terror and horror. I could see down the black hole. It appeared to be a long, descending tunnel.

THERE WERE FLAMES

I could see a seething, roiling mass of people at the bottom of this hole. They were so crowded together they appeared to have no space between them at all. There were flames, and a red orange glow coming from the bottom of this black hole. I smelled sulfur (like matches). I saw fire and flames. I felt the intense heat of the fire. I saw maggots crawling all over the bodies of the people at the bottom of the black hole. The people were on fire, yet were not being consumed by the fire. But, they were screaming out in agony and pain from the fire. They were looking up towards the opening of the black hole. Their hands and arms were raised upwards.

They were shifting and moving restlessly like huge waves. And they were screaming. Screaming for deliverance, for mercy. But there was no mercy. There was no deliverance. I drew back from the edge of the black hole in terror and horror and despair.

THERE WERE ALL GOING TO BE CONDEMNED

I turned back towards the Lord sitting on His throne. He was still reading from the books. Now I saw a large, endless stack of books piled next to His throne. And I knew that every one of the people who those books were written about, were going to be condemned. I looked at the long, endless line of people gathered before the Lord, waiting to be judged.

Now, I saw every face clearly. They were my friends, my family, my relatives. And they were being condemned.

I WAS BESIDE MYSELF!!

And I saw them being cast into the black hole, and I heard them as they screamed as they fell down the long tunnel. The Lord turned to me, with tears streaming down His cheeks, and said, “Now pray.” I began to weep and scream out to God to have mercy on these people. As each person was condemned, I ran to the edge of the black hole and tried to pull them back out of the black hole. I would grab their hands and arms, and try to hold onto them. But they would slip from my grasp. I was beside myself, trying desperately to keep these people I loved from going down the black hole.

“LET GO, THE LORD TOLD ME!”

I reached out and grasped onto the Lord, then reached down with my other arm into the black hole to try and grab people out of the black hole. “Let go,” the Lord told me. “If I let go of you, I’ll go into the hole myself,” I protested. “Let go,” the Lord said again. I let go. It was as if unseen hands were holding onto me. I laid down next to the edge of the black hole, reached down inside of it, trying to grab hold of and grasp onto the people who were falling down into the black hole. I felt like I myself was being burned from the fire and the flames. At times, I felt as if “claws” reached out from the black hole and struck at me. I felt burns on my arms, and saw scratches appear on my arms. I was weeping, and calling out to God for the deliverance of these, my loved ones. I was begging God to have mercy on my loved ones, and to not condemn them to the black hole.

“It’s easier to pray for the lost when they are your own loved ones,” the Lord said to me. “Remember, all the lost are My loved ones. I want My children to begin to pray for these, My lost children, as you are praying for them now. I would raise up a generation of intercessors to stand in the gap for My lost children. These intercessors will feel the heat of the battle, and be burned by it. The forces of hell will come against them, and attack them. Yet, I will be with them, and will hold onto them.

Now will you pray?”

~~ Hollie L. Moody

THE FEAR OF THE LORD

THE FEAR OF THE LORD

November 15, 2011

“Should you not fear Me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence?” Jeremiah 5:22

After I have sinned this day, Daddy asked me, “Why did you do that? Why did you lie?” And I ashamedly answered, “Because I fear them…” And He said, “You fear man but you don’t fear Me.” His Words strikes my heart within and there’s nothing I can do but to cry and asked for forgiveness.

I lied. I lied out of fear of man. I have lost my fear of the Lord. The fear of being scolded for what I have done dominated over my fear of Daddy God. At that moment I don’t know why I have done it. All I think of is my fear of being rebuke or being scolded.

Before I go home, I went to church and asked for forgiveness and guidance for what I have done. During my prayer, Daddy told me that I have lost my fear of Him because I chose to sin. I thought to myself that it is okay because Daddy God will forgive me.. because Daddy God will understand.. while people are not easy to forgive and forget. But it is not right. I should have feared Daddy God more than I feared man or the punishment or the tendency of being rebuked.

What does it mean to fear the LORD? I have learned from my mistake today that if we really fear God, we must fear sin. We must fear God above anyone else. Most people commit sin because we do not have the fear of the Lord. When I have sinned today, I have lost my fear of Daddy God. I feared man more than Him so I decided to lie and try to save my face even I know that what I have done is wrong. I have learned from Daddy that if we fear Him, we should always turn from evil.

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil” (Proverbs 8:13)

Daddy God made me remember His three servants who feared Him more than they feared the king. They are Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Even at the point of being thrown in the blazing furnace, they faithfully obeyed God not to worship the image of gold. They willfully disobeyed the orders, even though their lives were threatened because they feared God.

Daniel 3 : 17, 18 “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up”.

Most of us today fear human authority, we fear our government, our boss, our elders and yet somehow we don’t fear God. We tend to think that human authority and its punishment is far higher than the very Hand of God. No matter how great human authority is, it is still incomparable to the greatness of the Living God. Whom should we fear? We should not fear anything or anyone other than God. God is the only One who is worthy of fear. God is the King of kings.

“Do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.” Isa 8:12-13 

I have learned that no one can walk in the will of the Lord if we don’t have the fear of God. The fear of the Lord means obeying all His laws and commandments. If we fear the Lord we will hate evil knowing that whenever we do evil things, we sinned against our Holy God. If we fear the Lord we will always choose to obey His commandments with seriousness knowing that breaking them is dangerous.

It is like the fear of a child who has a righteous, good father for whom the child has the greatest respect. The father demands obedience and the child is afraid to disobey. The child knows that his father expects to be taken seriously. Thus he fears his father in this sense. However, although he fears his father, he also loves him. He knows that his father is righteous, just, and good and that what his father says is true and for his own good. He knows that although his father requires respect and obedience, his father loves him. This must be the same with our fear to our Almighty God. Because we fear God, that doesn’t mean we can’t love Him. Fear does not prevent love. Our respect for God and obedience to His commandments is the very basis for our love.

“My son, if you receive my words, and treasure my commands within you, so that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; THEN you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.” Proverbs 2:1-5

“Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way that he should choose.” Psalms 25:12

I give glory to my Father God, Jesus and Holy Spirit for teaching me what it really means to fear Him.

ALL GLORY TO GOD! 

Daddy’s girl

WALKING by FAITH

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

I have told Daddy that it seems like I can’t see my future and it bothers me not knowing what will going to happen. I feel like I am a blind girl and I am becoming afraid. The people around me talks about their plans. They have their own plans in their life. And I can’t help but think, “What about me Daddy? What am I going to do? Where would I go? What plans do you have for me? How do I walk by faith when everyone around me is walking it out by sight?”

I prayed for this and He told me that if I know His plans for my entire life, what’s left for me to trust?  Daddy God is teaching me to walk by faith and not but sight. I may not know what my future will be or what will going to happen with my life but I know that Daddy God has plans and I should only trust Him and have faith at all times.

Daddy God made me remember Abraham who walked by faith and not by sight. When God told Abraham to leave his country and go to the place where God wants him to be, He obeyed without even asking or worrying about his future. He doesn’t know the place. He doesn’t know how he will going to adapt or how he will going to have his new life in that far away land. He does not asked God “Okay, I’ll go to that place but please let me know first what’s going to happen to me or the plans you have for me before I go.” Abraham trusted fully. He walked by faith and God was pleased.

“We walk by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7

How do we walk by faith? Walking by faith means walking by trust in our Heavenly Father.  Walking by faith is about our trust in GOD to provide for us. Walking by faith is walking with GOD. We should not direct our own steps for it must be GOD who will direct our path. When I gave my life to God, it means that my life will be totally controlled by Him. It means that His will should be done in my life. In all my plans I should consult Him first. If He said yes then I must go. If He said no, I must stop. If He doesn’t answer, then I must wait.

I have learned from Daddy that worrying is not from Him. It’s from the devil. The enemy wants us to feel worried and when this happens, we might lose our trust in God. When we lose our faith and trust in God, we will turn back to our own way of solving our problems or in our own way of leading our life. This will change our direction from a Spirit led life to a self led life.

“Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” Hebrews 10:38

I have come to realized that I am not really blind. Our physical eyes were not created to work in the spiritual world that is why Daddy God is telling us not to walk by sight. He gave us another form of vision to see and it is the gift of faith. Do we have faith, living in faith, the faith of a child? Can we say, “The life that I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”? Do we walk by faith knowing that God will provide for us and will never leave us?

“Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10

“He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (Jn. 8:12).

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl