The Fire of God

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The prayer movement came out from Corea. The praise movement

is coming out of Indonesia. Question came into my spirit,

what will come out of Malaysia? Can anything great come

out of Malaysia? And we believe yes, Amen, I believe

it all my heart, and you are part of that Adelujah.

I believe that God is going to keep a hunger

to this generation. There is the next level that God

was to take us. I really believe that the time

from Malaysia is now. I'm actually going to speak to

you about the fire of God and the passion of God.

Is that okay? Fifteen years ago or sixteen years ago

now or seventeen years ago, but it's a long time ago.

I brought my leadership at that time. It was a

small group elders and some pastors to a huge meeting

in Indonesia, Jakarta, and it ended up after three days

of conference UH. It was an international conference UH, and

it ended up. The climax was at the stadium in

Jakarta and one hundred thousand people showed up to praise

and worship the Lord, and Youngicho pastor Youngi Cho was

the speaker. I wonder how many of you went for

that meeting, but I decided to bring my team there.

It was an investment, to cut a long story short.

We're all, you know, really into it, into prayer, into worship.

And I was praying in tongues and I was, you know,

really wanting more of God. I know many of you

are in this room. I also like that, just we're

hungry for God. And so a lot of us, if

not all of us, want to go deeper with God,

don't we we want more of God. And so I

was really crying. I said, God, I want more for us,

more for me, for more for ex church uh, and

also more for Malaysia. Those of you who know me

long enough will know that I have a heart for

this nation. And so I was praying and then Yong

Kito said something very clearly. I remember. He said, prayer.

The prayer movement came out from Korea, and a lot

of us know that. And he said, the praise movement

is coming out of Indonesia, you know. And so I

was sitting there going like okay, great, but I wasn't satisfied.

A question came into my spirit. I don't know whether

it was my question or whether it was a holy

spirit's question, but this was the question, what will come

out of Malaysia? And it seems to be like that

scripture that says can anything good come out of Nazareth?

You know? And sometimes we think, we say, especially when

it comes to the things of God and the things

of Jesus and the Church, can anything great come out

of Malaysia? And we believe. Yes, Amen, I believe in

all my heart, and you are part of that. Hallelujah.

There is the next level that God wants to take us.

There's a deeper level, a higher level, a further level.

And I really believe it. I really believe that the

time for Malaysia is now. And even those of you

who don't feel Malaysian or are not Malaysian by birth,

you know you're here for a reason. You're here for

such a time as this. If you believe it, say Amen.

And so I close my eyes and I'm gonna pray,

Oh God, pray out of Korea, you know, praise out

of Indonesia. What will come out of Malaysia? God speak?

You know, tell me you know, give us something, you know.

And then the Lord said to me, passion, very clear,

passion will come out of Malaysia. The kind of passion like,

no matter what happens, we are gonna love Jesus. We're

gonna love God with all our heart's, minds, soul and strength.

No matter what happens, We're gonna give to God. We're

gonna serve the Lord. We're gonna be an example of

what it means to be on fire for Jesus. On fire,

you know, for God. And so I went like, oh wow,

you know. And suddenly while half of you rejoice, the

other house says can and not sure and not because

there's America, there's Australia, there's all these different places. There's Africa, right,

Africa is very passionate for Jesus. Also, look at how

they dress right for church, hot sun, you know, but

full suit tie, you know, giving their best to God.

That's another way to say, on fire, you always wanted

to give your best, nothing less than your best for Jesus.

Amen on fire. So I heard from the lords very clearly,

although I had a little bit of doubt in my mind,

passion will come out of Malaysia. I said, really, and

you know, without God, this canld happen. So God is

giving you something that you have to have him. You

have to have more of the Holy Spirit, more of

the fire from heaven. And so I opened my eyes

and guess what I was probably in this posture of prayer,

eyes closed and crying out to God, God, you know

what will come out of Malaysia. And I think it

took about maybe five seven minutes. And then when I

opened my eyes, I didn't know what was going on,

but there was a group running in with what do

you call it, a flame like an obor, you know,

and the finale was to come in and you know,

like the Olympics. L liked the big flame that will

never die. And God was like, see, you know, because

I didn't know that it was going to happen, but

fire came in to the stadium and they enlighted that

whole thing and you know, just went on fire. And

I cried, crying. I cried because the Lord says, I

said passion, I said fire, and there you go. I

give you a visual And I want to tell you, Kenneth,

believe it with all your heart. Now that's sixteen seventeen

years ago. And I've always believed with all my heart

that God can do this, not by mind, not by power,

but by my spirit, says the Lord. It's not because

we are so special, But I believe that God's going

to give a hunger to this generation, even to the

generation that I belong to, and even to maybe a

slightly older generation, you know, but I am sure it

is for the younger generation especially. But you see, there's

a war bring on because the devil knows the potential

of Malaysia and so he's trying to, you know, mess

that up with our young people. I took that from

back from Indonesia, and you know it's not just for

extra you know, it's for Malaysia. God in say, fire

will come out of extray. She said, fire come out

from Malaysia. Malaysia's gift to the war will be passion.

Passion one King's eighteen So Ahab send all or send

for all the children of Israel. And gathered the profits

together on Mount Carmel, and Elijah came to all the

people and said, how long will you falter between two opinions?

That's all opinions? He says, no, Lord, I'll say, let's

read adverse three two. Then Elijah said to the people,

I alone am left a prophet of the Lord. But

Boo's prophets are four hundred and fifty Okay, a Lord. Therefore,

let them give us two bulls, and let them choose

one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay

it on the wood, but put no fire under it. Wow.

And I will prepare the other bull and lay it

on the wood, but put no fire under it. Then

you call on the name of the of your gods,

and I will call on the name of the Lord.

And the God who answers by fire. Oh, I love this.

Can somebody say with me, God who answers by fire,

let him be God? All right? Then Elijah said to

all the people, come near to me. So all the

people came near to him, and he repaired the altar

of the Lord that was broken down. And Elijah took

twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of

the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the

Lord had come, saying, Israel shall be your name. Then

with the stones he built an altar in the name

of the Lord. And he made a trench around the altar.

Large enough to hold two sears of seed. Then he

put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces,

and laid it on the wood, and said, Phil, four

water pots with water, and pour it on the burns sacrifice,

and on the wood. Wow, they are pouring water. Now

for water pots of water, and pour it on the

bird sacrifice, and on the wood. Also that he said,

do it a second time, and they did it a

second time. And he said do it a third time,

and they did it a third time. So the water

ran all around the altar. And he also filled the

trench with water. And he came to pass at the

time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. That Elijah

the Prophet came near and said, Lord, God of Abraham,

Isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that

you are God in Israel. Now I am your servant,

and that I have done all these things at your world.

I've done it at your world. Hear me, O, Lord,

hear me, that this people may know that you are

the Lord, and that you have turned their hearts back

to you again. Oh. Elijah was passionate about the people's

hearts being turned back to the to the Lord that

God Verse thirty eight were about to end our reading.

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consume the

burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust,

and it licked up the water. It licked up the

water that was in the trench. Now, when all the

people saw it, they fell on their faces and said,

the Lord he is God, The Lord he is God.

The first thing I want to say to you is

that this God that we serve, he answers by fire.

I want to give it, give you a little bit

of a twist to that thought. It was not only

that day that God was going to answer by fire.

I believe. I believe our God actually answers by fire.

I really believe that when you don't have fire, when

you don't have passion, you miss out. You might miss

out on the very purpose of why and what and

how God is leading you. For example, if you now pray, God,

I want to migrate to somewhere. Okay, it could be Australia,

it could be Canada. Now, to me, migration itself is

not wrong, But this is my fear. My fear is

that you will migrated without fire. Because if you migrate

without fire, the fire wherever you're going will consume you.

The reason why a lot of us are not consumed

is because the fire in us is greater than the

fire outside. Do you remember the furnace heated up seven

times and all three men were not burnt, And then

there was a fourth like the son of God. And

I really believe that the fire did not consume them

because the fire within that was greater. I want to

I want. I hope you understand that God is interested

with fire. Another word for that is passion. I told

you already earlier. But let's talk about fire. If you

are asking God for money that you will make a

lot of money. You know, money itself is not wrong,

yes or not. The love of money is, but the

money making a lot of money is not wrong. But

if you make a lot of money and know I

have no fire in you, the fire of money can

kill you. And I can go on and on. But

money without fire, money without passion, money without purpose, will

kill you. You know that. And when you catch that fire,

and when you're burning for Jesus, you know, if that

plan to go overseas is not from God, that also urban.

But if that plan to go overseas is from God,

you will go with fire. You know, we have three

eight churches going on for Tea Cherches. Now we've got

to plant ex Osaka in January. You know, I want

to I want to tell you, by God's grace and

and and to God's glory that all these churches, well,

let's let's all say all seventy percent of these churches

were planted by students who actually went to Bristol to

study and said to me their pastor, Pastor Kenneth, I

didn't just go to get a degree. I went, I'm

going to get a testimony, all right. Now as a pastor,

I go like, wow, okay. So the question would be,

how do we catch that fire? How do we what's

the word? How do we receive that fire? How do

we continue in that fire? So I'm going to give

you quick points. Number one, the Bible says, or rather

Elijah said, choose, choose who you will serve. If God

is God, serve him, if Ball is God, serve him. Yes,

I believe every single day in the life of a Christian,

we've got to make a choice. This m cr cmc RMCR.

Do you know that many Christians have now to make

a choice? Choices open? Do I come. Don't come now

if you if you don't come because of valid reasons,

are well, okay, a valued reasoner, that's why it's called

value reason. But if you don't come just because of fear,

just because of like maybe I canna, I tell you what,

you can conna anywhere. No if if m c cmc

RMCO is teaching us anything, I was teaching christ It's

time to choose and to choose rightly. Because when you

choose God, you choose his way, you choose his wisdom,

you choose his faith rather than fear, your fire will

keep burning. Okay. Number two challenge, I find more and

more Christians are living a life of comfort instead of

a life of conviction. And while there are challenges in

front of us that we should respond to and make

decisions with, we are not. And it's like it's like this,

like okay, for example, in our church, we have people

who don't want to go missions. Now whatever it is

that they don't want to go to missions. But I say,

maybe this is the challenge you need to take up.

And when you take up, do you know how many

people actually pray more with their own missions? But a

lot of a lot of us believe us. We don't.

We don't respond wealth to challenge. We run away from challenges.

And then you will find that your fire keeps burning

because you keep fueling it. How do you feel it?

Take up God's challenge? How do you feel it? Choose? Choose,

take up God challenge? Number three, consecrate, consecrate. What Elijah

did was he took the stones and he repaired the altar,

repair the altar. I love this because after he mocked

the professor Bow, he said to the people of Israel,

come near to me. And he didn't straight away ask

God for fire. He repaired the altar. I love that

because again I believe the fire of God is attracted

by the fire that's already in us. Do you catch it?

And there was a fire in Elijah's heart and he

didn't just say God, okay. Now the professor Bow failed miserably.

Now God pity. Sure of he didn't do that. He

went straight to consecration. Number one is true. Number two

is challenged. Number three is consecration. Consecration just means set

your life apart to be holy unto the Lord. This

is what Elijah did. First, he had to rebuild the

altar and then he cut the bull in pieces, put

it on. The Bible says he put the wood in order.

I think many of us Christians need to put our

life in order. Put the wood in order. And then

before he even put fire, because he couldn't put fire

right here, he said, put no fire under it. You

know what he did, he said, poor water, ho water.

I love that because they you know, the sacrifice of

the bull wasn't the greatest sacrifice. The sacrifice of water

was bigger because all of you know it was a

time of femine. It was a time of drought. And

so three times of water on the sacrifice, the wood

flowing down to the trench, That sacrifice was greater than

the bull. The buller. Anyone can give water people wanted

to drink. Not enough water. You pour it out to God. No,

I'm asking us that you know fire, I told your

idea is very very important. You either are on fire

or you will be burned by the fire outside. All right,

So how do you keep this fire going? How do

you attract this fire? How do you build this fire

in yourself?

Now?

One every day, choose God, choose his word, choose his

real number. Two, take up the challenge for which he

is putting before you. Number three, consecrate, build this altar

that's broken, and pour your life out as a sacrifice.

Don't just give to God only money. Don't just give

to God that's the easy things, the convenient things. No,

that day, God loved the water so much that the

Bible says he licked it up. I love that. I

love that. So the fire came. And only the fire

of God that can burn wood that's wet, and only

the fire of God can burn the sacrifice as wet.

But not only that. The Bible says that he can't down.

And he licked up the water around the trench because

he wasn't interested in the bull. He was interested in

the water, because the water spoke of the greatest sacrifice,

a deeper sacrifice. Easy to give, easy things, things that

cost you nothing. Number four is call Elijah, called on

the name of the Lord, God, Almighty God of Abraham,

Isaac and Israel. Hear me. Now I've done all this

according to your word. He calls all the Lord, and

Christians must learned to call the Lord every day. Call

the Lord, Call the Lord, and you shall be saying call.

And then number five, number five is this cause c

A U S E. You know, I've come to believe

this year especially, the Lord has shown me something. You no,

that most, if not all, the things that He does

in our lives are most, if not all, has got

to do with the lost. These days I pray for

this sicker. I don't pray for the sick just for

the sick anymore. So there must be a bigger purpose

why you want God to do something. And these days

the bigger purpose is this, we want the laws saved. Lord,

would you heal this person of cancer so that all

the doctors in this hospital will know that Jesus Christ

is Lord. But we don't usually pray that because there

must be a bigger purpose. There must be a bigger cause,

you think, and like that just for mine mind, wh

need want the fry to come down? No, because he

said it at the end, turn these people's hearts back

to you. This new sense of purpose in my prayer

life these days, this new sense of purpose for people

to be heal of cancer. People will be healed of HIV,

people will be healed of you know, whatever ailments. You know,

because they have colleagues who know them, they're family members

who are not yet saved. They have all these prescious

people all around them that God loves and Jesus died for,

and sometimes He allows things to happen in our lives.

Why so that when we pray, we don't pray selfishly,

but we pray God, whatever I'm going through. Now, let

your answer in my life be as a light unto

those who do not know you.

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