'God wants warm-hearted servants.
The Holy Spirit comes as a fire, to dwell in us; we are to be baptized, with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
Fervency is warmth of soul.
A phlegmatic temperament is abhorrent to vital experience. If our religion does not set us
on fire, it is because we have frozen hearts.
God dwells in a flame; the Holy Ghost descends in fire.
To be absorbed in God's will, to be so greatly in earnest about doing it that our whole being takes fire, is the qualifying condition of the man who would engage in effectual prayer.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 23)
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Mar_1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Luk_3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire
Baptized with the Holy Spirit and FIRE.
Act 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Cloven tongues like as of FIRE sitting upon EACH of them-and they were FILLED with the Holy Spirit!
Imagine it?! It was REAL. This wasn't some fantasy fiction dreamed up by some over active imagination, this was real! I've seen movies about the book of Acts and this particular happenstance and the special effects they used for the cloven tongues like fire were very strange because we attribute it to something unreal, something out of the ordinary, something supernatural. In truth it was something very supernatural! It was a visible sign of the HOLY SPIRIT entering into men. They were FILLED with the Holy Spirit! We want to be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT don't we?! We should! The fire, the flame of GOD resting upon us as the Holy Spirit fills us, we want this! We need this! We have to have this! Please, LORD, please bless us with the fire of the Holy Spirit! We need this we do and we are at a loss as to how to obtain what we need. Please give this to us undeservedly, because there is nothing we can do to deserve the gift of the Holy Spirit, by Your grace alone we must have the Holy Spirit fill us. All through YOUR righteousness may we have this fire in us as we pray, as we seek YOU with all our HEART, bless US LORD!
Save us!
The Holy Spirit comes as a fire, to dwell in us; we are to be baptized, with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
Fervency is warmth of soul.
A phlegmatic temperament is abhorrent to vital experience. If our religion does not set us
on fire, it is because we have frozen hearts.
God dwells in a flame; the Holy Ghost descends in fire.
To be absorbed in God's will, to be so greatly in earnest about doing it that our whole being takes fire, is the qualifying condition of the man who would engage in effectual prayer.'
Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 23)
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Mar_1:8 I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
Luk_3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire
Baptized with the Holy Spirit and FIRE.
Act 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Cloven tongues like as of FIRE sitting upon EACH of them-and they were FILLED with the Holy Spirit!
Imagine it?! It was REAL. This wasn't some fantasy fiction dreamed up by some over active imagination, this was real! I've seen movies about the book of Acts and this particular happenstance and the special effects they used for the cloven tongues like fire were very strange because we attribute it to something unreal, something out of the ordinary, something supernatural. In truth it was something very supernatural! It was a visible sign of the HOLY SPIRIT entering into men. They were FILLED with the Holy Spirit! We want to be filled with the HOLY SPIRIT don't we?! We should! The fire, the flame of GOD resting upon us as the Holy Spirit fills us, we want this! We need this! We have to have this! Please, LORD, please bless us with the fire of the Holy Spirit! We need this we do and we are at a loss as to how to obtain what we need. Please give this to us undeservedly, because there is nothing we can do to deserve the gift of the Holy Spirit, by Your grace alone we must have the Holy Spirit fill us. All through YOUR righteousness may we have this fire in us as we pray, as we seek YOU with all our HEART, bless US LORD!
Save us!
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