The Voice and The Fire
“Has a people heard the voice of God
speaking from the midst of the fire…”
Deuteronomy 4:33
A voiceless Christianity is just another religious belief devoid of His reverence and wonder.
“My sheep hear My voice,
and I know them,
and they follow Me”
John 10:27
True Christians have a relationship with Christ; He knows them, and they follow Him. Hearing His voice is the hallmark of this relationship. Such statements are not doctrinal, they are His description of His sheep.
To define ourselves by any other metric is the sham of religion. Those who do not hear His voice are prone to follow men, organizations, and a myriad of other carnal endeavors that lack His presence and power.
The Unity of the Faith is only known and pursued by those who respond to Him alone. The masses who give themselves to other voices will not touch the Holy Presence that imprints His own with the stamp of HIS ownership. To eat the leavened bread of compromised ministers and teachers creates sects and divisions in those who cannot discern the true from the false.
“For we being many are one bread, and one body:
FOR we are all partakers of that ONE bread.”
1 Corinthians 10:17
Partaking in the ONE Bread is the secret of the ONE Body. The devastating effect of compromised ministry is a disunified Body of people with little or no ability to discern between the false and the true. People who are lacking in their own relationship with Christ will find their identity in something else. When Christ is all, everything else is subservient to Him.
“one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord; and you shall put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons…”
Exodus 29:23-24
We see God’s design for His ministers. “One loaf of Bread” placed in the hands of those who would set forth the Word of the Almighty God. “ONE cake of oiled (anointed) bread” (KJV) to be distributed to His people.
The travesty of all that we see in our land is heartbreaking. The unmoved multitudes reveal the state of our insensitivity to His Spirit, His purpose, and the earnest cry of His prayer “That they all may be one…”
Relationship with Him is how His desires become ours.
His presence is the reward of being in His Will.
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“Where the word of a king is,
there is power”
Ecclesiastes 8:4
Those who “hear His voice” will find the pursuit, the press, and the intensity of His Spirit to serve Him alone. There can be no mixed motives in the hearts of those who have “heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire” (Deuteronomy 4:33)
“…in His temple doth every one speak of His glory.”
Psalm 29:9
“The one speaking from himself seeks his own glory. But the one seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, this One is true, and unrighteousness is not in Him.
John 7:18 (LITV)
Purify us Lord with the wonder and the Fire of you burning within our hearts.
The purer the heart,
the purer the Word.
“They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the Name of their God: for the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.”
Leviticus 21:6 (GNV)
Please read a related Post: His Voice
Brian Troxel
A strong anointing and the Lord’s fragrance is in and on this word. Thank you for the cost you paid for us to have it.
Blessings and love,
❤️Michele
We are the aroma of Christ… 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 🤠
Yes, thank you, sir and saint.
Incendiumata Amoriolio
2 Corinthians 2:15-17 AMP
15 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which ascends] to God, [discernible both] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 16 to the latter one an aroma from death to death [a fatal, offensive odor], but to the other an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh]. And who is adequate and sufficiently qualified for these things?
That we foolishly focus on and obstinately obsess with the innate insufficiency of ourselves and others rather than splendidly savoring and selflessly serving with the Sufficiency that is the immersing, indwelling, infilling, flooding overflow of the Spirit of Christ, Himself, I honestly, humbly believe is a subtlely satanic source of not living above the madness of the maze, ablaze with the fire of deific desire that fuels and fortifies intimate abiding love communion with Christ.
Badly bamboozled, for much of our trip through time we are wont to be a lurid law unto our willful selves and thus effectually enervated rather than energized, exercised, and elevated by the exceeding excellency of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus lavishingly, ravishingly filling our vision.
Colossians 3:1-2 AMP (emphasis mine)
1 Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], KEEP seeking the things that are ABOVE, where CHRIST is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind and keep focused HABITUALLY on the things ABOVE [the HEAVENLY things], NOT on things that are on the EARTH [which have only temporal value].
The satisfactory Solution to not revering and hearing the holy, helpful, happifying voice of the consecrating, communicating, consummating Christ, Who Is Love, longing to commune with His loved ones, His love sought, blood-bought, heaven-brought bride is no less than Himself, not ever in any wise ourselves. It is neither present in the carnal constitution nor possible in the consciousness compromised away from concentration on Christ to be consistently consecrated to His cause of abiding and eternal virtue and value. This divinely dynamic, supernatural state of ardent abiding in Christocentric consciousness is the actualization of our awareness, our affections, our attention, and our actions to the eternally ever-expanding effulgence of His peerless providence and provision in gladness and gratitude.
The more we see our Savior and Sanctifier, the more we are Spirit enlivened, energized, and empowered, conforming to His champion character, making glad His and our Abba’s heart. Beholding and becoming! All look to Jesus, the real and living Way, the perfecting, all-sufficient Author, Architect, and Artist of our faith, future, and fortune!
2 Corinthians 3:12-18 AMP
12 Since we have such a [glorious] hope and confident expectation, we speak with great courage, 13 and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not gaze at the end of the glory which was fading away. 14 But [in fact] their minds were hardened [for they had lost the ability to understand]; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted because it is removed [only] in Christ. 15 But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil [of blindness] lies over their heart; 16 but whenever a person turns [in repentance and faith] to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. 18 And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into His image from [one degree of] glory to [even more] glory, which comes from the Lord, [who is] the Spirit.
Remember commenting on this vision from March of 2024?
Cotton Candy
I had a vision this morning where I saw people in line in front of a pulpit and the pastor, including those in leadership, was handing out cotton candy to the people. I then saw the teeth of the people were rotted and falling out. Living on cotton candy in the natural would provide one with absolutely no nourishment whatsoever, however, it would satisfy one’s, ” sweet tooth”, as the saying goes, i.e., the flesh. The people in line had gotten up from the tables they were seated at which was a full course dinner, which included meat, leaving their plates full of food. Apparently they had been doing this for quite some time for their teeth to be in such a state of rot and decay. They left that which would have provided true nourishment, i.e., the meat of the word, because they no longer had the teeth to chew it but instead opted to stand in line to get the cotton candy which the pastor and those in leadership were happy to serve.
The scriptures that come to mind are:
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NKJV) 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
Isaiah 30:8 (NKJV Strong’s)
8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to come, Forever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, Lying children, Children who will not hear the law of the LORD; 10 Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before us.”
Hebrews 5:12-14 (NKJV) 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
While true that in the times we’re in people seek out those who will not preach a message of conviction there are those who feed the flock with only milk thus keeping them only milk and dependent on the pastor. In the aforementioned vision I saw that the people’s teeth were rotted thus making it very difficult if not impossible for them to partake of meat. Hence the eagerness to stand in line for the cotton candy