I noticed something in adult Sunday School this morning. Pastor Rubi was talking about Moses on mount Sinai. We read in Exodus a little bit of that story.
"Now mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. It's smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly." Exodus 19:18
I noticed in this verse the statement that it was like the smoke of a furnace. There was fire, and smoke, that reminded them of a furnace.
I could kindle a fire in my living room today. It would burn. There would be smoke. The fire department would come. And my house could burn to the ground. And if it burned to the ground, there would be no more fire. But if there is a fire in my furnace, it is fire under control, and it keeps me warm all winter.
On the day of Pentecost, fire from God was also present.
"Then there appeared to them cloven tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them." Acts 2:3
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;..." Acts 1:8
The fire and the power both came at Pentecost. Now obviously, those upon whom the fire came were not burned up. They did what the power of the Spirit empowered them to do. For many years.
The word power is the word dunamis. It roughly means a dynamo. It is wrongly translated dynamite. Holy Spirit power is like a power generating plant that produces electricity for an entire city or factory
Revival fire is not a raging wild fire. It is fire under control. It is not destructive power, it is power to get things done. Conference time is a time to light a fire in our hearts, and to empower us to be the light of the world.
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