My Identity Is In God!!!!

Fire Reveals What Is Real!🔥 Fire exposes the true nature of what it touches . Gold isn’t pure at first. It has to go through the fire. When the heat turns up, what doesn’t belong comes to the surface, and what remains is shaped by the refiner. Therefore the fire cannot not coexist with impurities, and it’s the same when it comes to God’s presence. It reveals what is genuine in us and what is not. It exposes hidden motives, your unhealed wounds, shame, shortcomings, guilt, regret, and misplaced attachments surface, not to shame us, but to heal, rebuild, make whole, and renew. In Isaiah, the 6th chapter, Isaiah realizes he’s standing in God’s presence and immediately feels discouraged because his lips (mouth) were unclean. He basically felt impure and undeserving of being placed before God. Instead of God rejecting him, a seraphim brought a coal from the altar of God and placed it in the very place he said he was unclean, and his sins were forgiven and his iniquity taken away. Even ...

God: The Consuming fire!  Hebrew 12:29   The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12 that God is a consuming fire. The moment I read that, I got excited, because being in His presence burns the impurities in your life and the ability to renew. Fire refines, it molds, and its light leads your path and reveals what’s hidden in the dark. In that moment, I thought, Wow! how awesome is my God whom I serve, whom I surrender to, and to whom I give my body as a living sacrifice. I was filled with joy. Then, within an instant, worry crept in because I remembered what fire feels like physically! The pain it creates and the loss that can follow, whether to the body or to your home. Fire burns everything in its path if it’s not contained. In that moment, my body tried to interpret what I was experiencing spiritually, and with that came fear. Have you ever gotten super excited about experiencing God’s presence, only to feel like all hell breaks loose right afterward instead of things getting bett...