Encouragement

SET YOURSELF ABHLAZE FOR CHRIST

by Apostle Steve Adonai 
03/04/25
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SET YOURSELF ABLAZE FOR CHRIST!
To set ourselves ablaze or afire for Christ is indicative of a supernatural fire, the fire of the Holy Spirit. The ultimate, infallible and wonderful blazing fire.

The fire of the Holy Spirit is a Christian symbol for the Holy Spirit's transformative, purifying, refining, and empowering presence in believers' lives. It represents God's presence, as seen in the Old Testament's pillar of fire and the New Testament's tongues of fire at Pentecost, which burned away sin, cleansed the heart, ignited passion for God, and empowered believers for ministry and a life of holiness.

It's the message that burns and sets your heart aglow that will burn for long in the heart of those who hear you. If your message is empowered and powerful enough to heal, deliver and bless you first, then it will definitely do the same and much more for others!
Be very reluctant to allow others to dictate the message you preach. Spend great, quality times in God's awesome presence in intensive prayer and feeding yourself fat with His incredible Word.

Acts 6:4,7.
But we will [continue to] FOCUS and devote ourselves [steadfastly] to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
So God’s message continued to spread. The number of believers greatly increased in Jerusalem, and many of the Jewish priests were converted, too.

Secure a more sure word of prophecy, that is seasoned with salt from the Holy Spirit, which should minister God's grace, healing, deliverance, salvation and blessing to those who hear you. Through intensive and extensive intercession, we set ourselves ablaze by the Holy Spirit and burn to death!

We decrease and become empty, Jesus increases in us, we're full of the Holy Spirit and power! We stop doing our will and start doing only the will of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 110:3.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

Luke 10:19
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be [a]witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

As Jesus Christ stuck to doing God's will alone, led by the Holy Spirit alone, amazing miracles, signs and wonders and crowds of people were often found with Jesus. And if you have a ministry or a regular congregation and you minister on Sundays for instance, discipline yourself and set every Friday and Saturday aside, lock yourself away seeking the Lord in prayer, fasting and God's Word night and day.

Then show up in Church on Sunday morning for an explosive service filled with God's presence, signs and wonders. By faith, lay hands on the sick, cast out devils and minister to every need with your incredible anointing. Soon, multitudes will be flocking to hear about the gospel of Jesus Christ in your ministry. Hallelujah!

Mark 1:45.
But the man Jesus healed of leprosy went and spread the word, proclaiming to everyone what had happened. As a result, large crowds soon surrounded Jesus, and he couldn’t publicly enter a town anywhere. He had to stay out in the secluded or deserted places, but people from everywhere kept coming to him.

We are saved to save others. As Christians, whenever we are confronted with disturbing and unfortunate issues like crime, prostitution, armed robbery, corruption, homosexuality etc. You must know that it's the Holy Spirit who is attempting to provoke the compassion in us to proffer solutions! Will these precious people be in that terrible state of bondage and captivity if they had the wonderful privilege of knowing Jesus Christ like we do?

Someone's prayer drew and persuaded us to know Jesus. Why don't we cry to God on behalf of these precious people Christ died for? Every sinner is a potential saint, and every saint is a savior!

Some of these seemingly terrible, so-called useless or unfortunate people today, are the powerful preachers, mentors and great leaders we will hear or read about tomorrow, ONLY IF we would love them as they are today, then pray for them fervently and then reach out to them!

We are not anointed to castigate or kill those we are mandated to save, otherwise we too would never have received Jesus Christ and become born again citizens of Heaven. Let's get to work.

Now, your ministry LOCATION or current deplorable CONDITION will never hinder an explosive spiritual, numerical or economic expansion and growth when we set ourselves ablaze in God's presence in solitude because that's when healing, signs and miracles follow us!

The anointing of the Holy Spirit on the minister destroys yokes and bondage and then blesses people so much that they in turn give and contribute willingly, excitedly and generously, supporting every aspect of the ministry. Their contribution and support would be financial, administrative, physical or support through their gifts.

Luke 8:1-3.
...Jesus took his twelve disciples with him, along with some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases. Among them were Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons; Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s business manager; Susanna; and many others who were contributing from their own resources to support Jesus and his disciples.

1 Corinthians 9:14.
In the same way, the Lord ordered that those who preach the Good News should be supported by those who benefit from it.
BUILD AND BLESS YOUR PEOPLE OR CONGREGATION AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU AND YOUR MINISTRY THROUGH THEM!

A minister who withdraws and dwells regularly in God's awesome presence will have no problem in getting God's people or congregation to become sold out to God and burn for Jesus Christ and in turn set their community on fire for God.

Hallelujah!