“For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.”
God desires right now to pull us into a place within Him not just with Him.
It is a true place of friendship and love which He wants us to know, become and reflect.
God is ready with fire to purify and cleanse His people. We are going to become the corporate burning bush that Moses witnessed.
The fire that Shadrach, Meshach and Abendnego were in that burnt without consuming them.
The fire in the kingdom which reveals God there with us also His faithful righteousness and rids all other barriers of hostility from cultures of the world.
A day when God is setting His church on fire bringing revelation and purity but not to be consumed. A day of church being on fire with passion for the Lord.
Christ has made us right with God, redeeming our sins.
“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility”
We are now one type of being, in Christ and reconciled with God. Within God’s household where He holds us closer than friends, as family, fellow citizens.
“So, you are not foreigners or guests, but rather you are the children of the city of the holy ones, with all the rights as family members of the household of God.”
The rescue for all those who have fallen to the loneliness of the pandemic.
“God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.”
He sets the lonely into family. Households. Grafted into the house of God is the only true remedy. Our season of connection.
We all have a deep seated yearning for home. A homesickness.
Church will be the home the family we have an insatiable appetite for.
A yearning to be with in community again not in isolation.
Being aware of the comfort blankets the enemy attempts to distract us with because of our familiarity over lockdown with isolation.
We are coming into deliverance. We discard what has assuaged our loneliness. Medicate our need in the House of God.
The day of connection must arise.
The illustration shows the church, God’s household being set on fire with blue flames of revelation and white of purity. The yearned for home to welcome the lonely and prisoners. The kingdom made on earth as in heaven where Light pushes back darkness.
Seven Scriptures that come to mind:
“For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another, everyone will know that you’re my true followers.””John 13:35 TPT
“Because the king’s order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.””Daniel 3:22, 25 ESV
“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility”Ephesians 2:13-14 ESV
“So, you are not foreigners or guests, but rather you are the children of the city of the holy ones, with all the rights as family members of the household of God.”Ephesians 2:19 TPT
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”
Isaiah 43:1-2 ESV
“God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.”Psalm 68:6 ESV
The song Refuge. Kira Fontina
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