And that is the message that I want to bring this morning.
I don't want to talk about the fire that follow you home
because listen, we are couriers of the fire of God.
Where do we go? It doesn't just stay in the fall
almost of the church. Wherever we go, we take the fire
of God with us. So I'm going to put that up
there for us. The title the subject of this
message today just put it up there fire that follows you
home. How many of you are ready for
this word today because this is this is the next steps now after
an anointed service or a conference or church.
I want to show you the next steps that is very, very vital,
very important and not showing me over the years how to stay on
fire because this is very important message today.
Once we've had encounters with God, conferences, anointed
services, how do we stay on fire?
Because this is a challenge for all of us.
We all face challenges. How to start fire, how to keep
the fire burning. OK, when Next week, Wednesday
afternoon. OK, the boss is stressing you
out. How do you keep the fire burning
after the conference? You know when the lights are
off, the band's gone home and it's you the balls, the busy
schedule and it feels like life is normal about going back to
the normal ordinary again. It's those moments that the
enemy, he loves to whisper, especially after conferences,
anointed services. He loves to whisper, says oh
wow, that was a great weekend. But you know you will go back to
normal soon. The, the fight, the, the, the
fire will fight. The passion will wear off.
And so soon you'll be back to the old you.
Listen, the devil is a liar. That's not God's.
God's plan is to stand fire every single day, every moment,
four week long on fire, not just a conference experience, not
just a Sunday church service, not just the moment in a
meeting, but the fire of God that follows you home.
Now maybe yes, you aren't able to attend the conference because
you are way of working commitments, bringing off the
children. We all get that.
But you may not have been in that building, but I've got good
news. You're in this building and the
same bonus, but it is you. And now the same Hooligan's, the
same Hooligan's Fair. He's here right now.
Oh, I've got good news for you. You did not miss.
Oh, my God, Just open your heart.
Just receive. Because I'm here to tell you
that the same Holy Ghost fire, he's in this room right now.
The same clienting, the same brother, the same power of God
is here. Come on, Somebody show somebody.
Give God some place in this place.
Oh, Hallelujah. I feel the power in the
anointing of God in this place. And so yes, now I want to show
you how to stay on fire every single day and let the fire God
follow you home into your everyday life.
So we're going to go straight into the word.
Put your hand on your heart. Say this with me.
My heart is open, my mind is ready.
I'm not leaving the same in Jesus name.
Hey man, give your name to the high 5 say God bless you.
Get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready for the work right
now. Don't with me to the book of
Romans chapter 8. Now Romans chapter 12.
This is an amazing I love this verse.
Very powerful verse in the book of Romans chapter 12.
I'm going to put it up on the screen and we're going to just
read that verse from verse 11 and I love this.
It says there never be lucky in zeal.
OK, never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor
or your spiritual passion serving the Lord.
And so I just another translation that talks about
keep your spiritual passion boiling hearts on fire.
Now some people has got hobbies and different things and they're
passionate for, you know, rugby or sports or cycling or that
you've got the passion for that. Now what God is saying is that
we have got to be passionate for the Lord.
Nothing wrong with having a good hobby in sports and all of that.
I love my sports. I love watching my rugby, OK and
all of that and the football and things like that.
But what God is saying, and I love this picture, he's saying,
listen, stay boiling hearts, boiling heart passionately for
the Lord, OK? And so God says, listen, I don't
want you to live cold, half hearted, You know, when it comes
to the things of God, you know, just going through the motions
now he wants you to live on fire, boiling hearts every
single day. I want you boiling on.
And that's what this message is all about, how to live a life,
OK, Be the fire of God, OK? It doesn't stay in the church
building, OK, but it follows you home.
The Father follows you wherever we go, to our homes, to our
families. OK, now let's just pray.
Father, I thank you for your presence.
Lord, I thank you that you speak to every heart open in this
place. Holy Spirit, come breathe life
into every person here present. And we give you all the glory
and somebody shout Amen. So you understand this Romans
chapter 12, what a powerful verse to be passionately, never
lack zeal. OK, my God, you know, we got to
stand in this culture against passivity, you know, don't let
down when it comes to the things of God.
We have got to be boiling hot and so on fire.
And it's not just a once off thing.
It is a passionate lifestyle of everyday living.
Boiling hot on fire for the Lord.
So he doesn't want you on fire just for the weekend or just for
the conference or just not fire for a church service.
OK. He doesn't just want to touch
you. He wants to walk out with you,
out that door, ride with you into the car, at home, at work.
He wants to follow you home wherever you go.
Come on, somebody he does it just wants a choose version and
then a Monday version, OK. He wants fire.
Who follows you home? Hallelujah.
Somebody. OK, think about fireworks and
make a fireplace. Now.
I love fireworks. Guy Fox is just amazing.
He just light up the sky. Boom, boom, explosives.
I love that they just flash, boom, you know, the fireworks,
OK. It's really amazing.
I like fireworks and so, but here's the thing.
Fireworks, they light up the sky.
Boom, bang, bang, egg explosion. It's amazing.
It's great, spectacular. But then it's gone.
It's 2 minutes and it's gone. So you get in the car, drive
back home, wow, that was great. Fireworks, wow, that was
amazing. Light up the sky, but two
minutes, it's gone. It's dark again.
Now, a fireplace is different. A fireplace burns all evening.
A fireplace, warm stuff. Oh, somebody's getting this.
A fireplace changes the atmosphere.
We come and we sit close to the fire.
We feel cozy. It's steady.
It's constant. Now I thank God for the
fireworks. And fireworks is great and
brilliant, and it's not its place.
But after 2 minutes of fireworks, when it's dark again,
a fireplace is cozy, a fireplace warms up.
And you see, God wants to shift us.
He wants to take us from fireworks fight to fireplace
fight. He wants to bring us shift into
our lives from just fireworks fight, from just going to one
meeting to the next conference, one church to every day of
fireplace warming our whole life.
Come on, Somebody is getting. Yeah, you're not getting this
this morning. Praise God.
Hallelujah. Are you ready?
Somebody, praise God. Begin.
As you said. The thing is, some believers,
they only go from firework to fireworks, Second one conference
to the next conference. One Monday at one meeting.
Yeah, to the next meeting. And then for a few months
they're called flat dull. OK, but you see, The thing is,
God doesn't just want you on fire on a Sunday.
He wants you to go from fireworks to fireplace, from a
flash in the sky to warming your whole life.
Now let me show you very powerfully in the Bible Acts
chapter 2 when the day of Pentecost had Fullene Cup, they
were all with 1 accord in one place and suddenly just say that
word suddenly, OK right that that sounds like fireworks to
me. Now there came a sound from
heaven as a rushing mighty weed and it filled the whole house
where they were sitting. Then they repealed to them
divided tongues as fire. I want you to see this what
what's going on around this Bible?
This is straight from the Bible when you talk about Holy Ghost
fires, Bible biblical and he says there and one sat upon each
of them. So everyone fired and they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance, speaking in other
songs. I'm not talking in Afrikaans,
I'm not talking English, I'm talking about Hallelujah.
So that is a Holy Ghost shifting that comes upon us when we
receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
And so that was that's a fireworks moment.
That's where God comes and ignites and he birth the church
with fire, with wing, with power, the Holy Ghost fire and
that is glorious and that is powerful.
And we cherish the fireworks moments and we thank God for the
beginnings of the fireworks. That's Acts chapter, but I want
you to see that it did not just stop at fireworks.
I want you to see to die from the word of God that he went
from fireplace to a fireplace because listen, there has got to
be fruits from an encounter. There has got to be an outflow
of results in our lives when we've received the fire of God.
Otherwise why do we go to a country?
Why do we receive the they got there has gone to be results and
I want you to see this because there was results after this
Pentecost. You read the very same chapter
and you see how the very same people at the fireworks.
We cannot do it without the fireworks.
We need the fire, but we see how that became a new lifestyle.
Hi come on come on, you got a flow with me today because this
is a word from heck and I want to show it to you because the
same chapter watch this verse 4 to 2.
They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to finish
up. We thank God for fellowship, to
the breaking of bread, to prayer.
Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders signs performed
by the Apostles. All the believers were together
had everything in common. They sold property positions to
give to anyone who had me. Every day they continued to meet
together where in the temple courts they broke bread so they
was breaking up bread. Their homes ate together with
glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the
favor of all the people and the Lord and added this your soul
willing added to the number daily those who were being
saved. So that is the same chapter
where we've seen fireworks and it has gone into can we see the
new lifestyle where it's become a fireplace of Acts.
Chapter 2 starts with the fireworks.
The fire falls and then it goes the end of the chapter, a new
way of passionate on fire living.
So what's happened? The fire followed them home.
It did not stay at Pentecost. The fire did not stay in the
upper room. It had not locked into one
church, pulling church to the church conference.
It flowed into the streets. It flowed into their families,
their everyday decisions, their choices, their tables, their
kitchens, their giving, their word, their conversations.
And so the purpose of the Holy Ghost and fire.
OK, the Pentecost, it wasn't just a fireworks wow moment, but
it became a lifestyle of loving one another, serving one
another, generosity. We see it, I broke up miracle
signs, wonders, We see soul winning.
People are getting saved. That's the purpose of pentacles.
Somebody said Hallelujah. And that's what this chapter 2
that we just read when the Bible's talking about, it's not
just the ones off place. It's not just the walls or
fireworks, but it's got to be a fireplace and lifetime of never
lacking zeal. It's not just for A105020 year
period or or just a week or day. It's a lifetime, whether we we
19 or 91, never lacking zeal, always passionate boiling.
You know, I remember when I was a student.
And so the fireworks started for me.
You know, when Doctor Rodney R Brown tried for us, we received
the fire of God. I mean, this is going back 25
years ago when I was 1920 and those fireworks that I
experienced the Holy Ghost of Fire.
I literally went onto the streets in Sunnyside.
I got people off the streets. I preach.
I just get people's left, right and saying to these people that
got to your your door, they want to sell they they mobile device
accessory. I'm just preaching left, right
and said to getting the results with people that were literally
on the streets, helpless people. The fire of God hit them.
They got saved. And I love what Doctor Rodney R
Brown said, right, I've got a job for you.
So what we do is we give people a job.
Like on that conference, if you don't have a job, people
standing, so I'm going to give you a job.
You just go and tell one person about Jesus.
I mean, I don't have to go to an office 9 till 5 and tell them do
a job. Who's going to put my salary?
God is faithful. God is your provider.
One person a day and you tell them about Jesus.
God is your provider. God will give you a job.
I've seen and raised up soul winners in sunny South Vic in
South Africa. And then God started placing.
So you see, from fireworks to fireplace.
And So what happened was I've had like some family member,
well, imagine some people like actually critics and they said,
oh, no, you know, well, we know, you know, he, he will just be a
face. He's just a student and, you
know, he's been through some of these radical, charismatic
doctor Cornell Brown meetings, fire of God's hitting.
And so people were just telling me, don't worry, he's just going
through a fight. He's still young.
He's 1920. They didn't just go through
these studies because at that time I was studying my degree.
But what happened was on the campus, I started baptizing
people and the people were coming and we were saving souls.
And so what's happened is, and, you know, just to tell my
critics, OK, here we are 25 years later and I'm still on
fire. Oh, my God.
So what has happened? The fireworks became a
fireplace. The fire followed me home.
The fire followed me home to Pretoria, Sunnyside.
The fire followed me to the UK. I'm like, turn the fire.
It followed me. It's not just the place, the
Holy Ghost Fire. It's not just for conferences.
It's not just for Sunday Cornings.
It's for every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, OK.
It's for every. It's for the traffic jams.
The Holy Ghost fire is for the school runs.
It's for the boardroom meetings. It's for the Zoom calls.
It's for our marriages, our families, our kids, the Holy
Ghost Fire. And it's for the difficulties.
It's for the late night tears. The Holy Ghost Fire follows us
right there with us in the difficulty.
And so God wants us to walk out of these doors radiating his
presence. And it's a good thing.
It's a wonderful thing because people are always attracted to
light. It's like a magnet.
People wanted I've been in shocks.
I would go to the shops and it's amazing.
I would just be in the shops and I would just be having a
conversation with the Lord. But I, I do it like, you know,
discretely in my heart. It's a it's a hard thing.
So I'm just and people they don't realize it, but they just
want to come and talk to me. They don't really know why, but
they just approached me and and and and I and I actually often
just realized this person standing with a basket grocery
store and they don't even realize why they actually talk
to me. Look, I thought they were asking
me, you want to show me where this is a book?
Where's the milk? Where's that?
And then I realized they they just attracted because the
presence of God is peace. We are living in a depressed
world. The culture is depressed when we
are carriers of his fire. Have you ever been Now for me, I
love farming and the Bush felt on a game reserve.
When you put that the fire, it's amazing.
I've actually seen even some of the the wild animals will come
close because when they see when the what happens is we are
attracted to the fire. It's Wolf when it's cold, when
it's freezing, we see that. We see the, the warmth when
they, they want warmth, they want the fire.
So when they're cameras of the fire, people are attracted.
They attracted you because you're carrying the fire.
They're like, wow, you know what?
I actually want what you've got. They, they, it's a desire.
And so the fire of God is worth you when you are making dinner
in the kitchen, when you are with the kids, when I play with
the kids, the fire of God, OK, when you're answering the
emails, when you reply to the emails on the phone call, the
fire of God is burning in your heart.
When you have that conversation, it's burning.
When you're under pressure and there's difficulty, the fire of
God's like, no, thank you God that I'm not alone because it's
difficult. I was in moments in Bristol.
I mean, I was a registered manager before I started.
God said to me, every time you have that conversation, there
was that situation. And I, the Holy Spirit, I'm with
you that brought so much reassurance that you're not a
lot. Now look, how do we keep the
fire burning every day? How do we do this?
Because this is amazing scripture.
It says that Leviticus chapter 6, verse 12.
Are you with me, somebody? It says here the fire on the
altar must be kicker. It mustn't go about every
morning. The priest is to add fire.
OK, that's the key. Now I want you to grab this
today. OK, let me read you verse that
thing as well. It says the fire must be kicked
in on the altar continuously. So that's not a once off, it's
not a now and then thing. God says the fire must burn
continuously. That's all the time, 24/7, all
week long, all the time. OK.
That is the will and the purpose of God and it seems to add fire
with. Now Please note that first of
all the fire was started by God. We just read it.
God sent the fire and he started.
That's God's thought. The priest job was to add the
wood and throw locks on the fire so that I could keep on burning.
OK, and that is the same for us today.
God comes, we get born again saved, and then Jesus comes and
he partize us from the Holy Ghost of fire. 2 separate
salvation and then we get the fire with born, the practice of
the Holy Ghost of Fire. So God lights the fire, gives us
a hunger for his presence. He's the one that released the
fireworks. Think a fire price is our job.
Nobody can do this for us. OK, we have to each and every
one of us. We got us to run on fires.
OK now yes we come together and got annoyed.
But what we have to do is each and every one of us, we have to
put on launch on the fire. We have to keep the fire burning
continuously. That is our job, burning it at
home, at work, every day in our choices, in our decisions.
Now, of course, there's some days when we don't always feel
on fire. We don't always feel boiling hot
at the time. And so there is moment.
So there's like wake up in the morning and OK, that feel woke
up tired, not in a very good mood, Phil, but under the
weather, OK, like this week. When was it Monday, Tuesday, I
was really under the weather. I got.
So it's like my sickness. I'm like, wow, but I'm going to
listen to the word of God. I said one thing before you
sleep. Oh, this work.
It works like it's amazing. Put on this recording Kenneth
Hagen and his scriptures on healing straight from the Bible
and he throws in but through revelation through anointing and
I'm like Lord, these symptoms. I feel terrible.
I was like went to doctor. I mean Tuesday, I don't even
know I'm going to make a conference.
I'm like this in no way is I'm going to be able to go to the I
said to Michelle, I said no way. So I am this is not I was
completely I'm like attacked Tuesday when that sickness was
just so I went to the doctor. They like, OK, but you know, so
I'm like, OK, I'm going to go to the world of God.
You know, you can't help me. I'm going to go to the word of
God and I place doctors and I thank God.
You know, when I put that Bible, I put it on and I went to be, I
listen to it. Gee, when I woke up and that
teaching that scriptures is, is specifically if you're attacked
with symptoms of sickness specifically, I'll send you the
link. I woke up, I'm like, I'm ready
for the conference. God said it.
The word of God works. The word of God, the word of God
works. So yes, wake up.
Maybe you don't feel very under the weather.
Thoughts will tell you. Well, Oh my goodness, all these
symptoms, I don't feel well, nothing good is good.
I'm really gonna try then. Listen, you, we don't all wake
up every morning. And so we just hear everyday
angels singing at the end of the gate.
OK, listen, let's just be honest.
And well, there's some mornings where I'm like, OK, I don't
really feel very well today. I don't hear any angels singing
with my men. I don't feel on fire, but you
know what? I'm going to choose instead of
believing the feelings and the symptoms.
Like I felt horrible, but I am going to believe what God says.
I'm going to believe the word of God, and I'm going to declare
the word of God. And this is what I've seen with
David. He understood this because there
was times when he faced a lot of betrayal, hurt, difficulties.
He faced challenges. But I love what David did.
When you look at the Psalm 180, David, he said, this is the day
that the Lord has won. I will rejoice and be glad in
it. OK, He didn't say, Oh well, I'll
feel now. He said, I will.
Now I, I don't feel very well. I feel under the weather and
must choose something like there's no ways I'm going to
make it, but I will rejoice. I make a quality decision based
on the word of God. I will rejoice.
And you see what you're actually doing is when did we choose the
word of God, you that is fan the flame.
This is our responsibility, each and every one of us, a preacher,
we cannot do that. But fan the flame with the word
of God, you David Stern himself and said, listen, I will
rejoice. I don't feel very well.
My body doesn't feel, but I will rejoice.
I thank God that and you just keep on declaring the word.
Thank you God that you're for me.
You're not against me or I thank you that goodness and mercy is
following me into this day. Goodness and mercy is following
me. And thank you, Lord, that your
fire is also following me. Your fire is following me.
Goodness and mercy follows me all the days of my life.
You just keep on quoting it and say, yes, the feelings might not
feel better, but what you're doing is you're fanning the
flak. So I'm putting another wood lock
on the flight because remember, the table cannot touch your
spirit. It might touch you and your body
because I was massively afflicted your sickness.
It was a it was an attack, filthy attack.
But you see, it cannot touch your spirit.
He can touch your body. You feel weak.
You feel all of the symptoms, but not your spirit.
And So what you do is you just take on more wood, put it on
your spot and let that flame, oh, I'm just going to stop that
fire. I'm going to burn out that
affliction. I'm going to burn out that
signal. I'm going to burn it out.
And you know what happens? You go from fireworks to
fireplace. You got to fireplace fun
somebody. Yeah, I remember when we started
the church, she had Clown Woods. This is going back now.
What? I guess Lady walked in, No
religious background, nothing. Never, ever about churchwell,
she walked in the power of God, the firewood power of God.
She said she's never fallen under the power.
She found herself on the floor. The power of God was so strong.
It came subtle, powerfully that God healed her back.
She could then she could never even walk along this as you can.
She like walk for miles. Her eyes were healed.
She's like, I, I like, I don't even need to wear glasses.
The power bar was so strong that it followed her home.
The fire followed her. So yeah, I got back around.
It's still the same bulls. Bulls were there and I'm still
messy. Precious difficulties there.
But something changed in there. The fire of God was on it.
The fire of God. And so when she normally when
things get changed in the home, she would explode, but all of a
sudden she stayed calm. And so when there was pressure,
she's like, oh, the Lord is my peace.
And so bulls to play and all of that, she would declare, oh God
is my provider. I said what happened was a few
days later the husband said to us, listen, what's happened to
my wife? What's happened to my smile?
He said, what's happened to me? She's a different Gods changed
me. And he's like, I love it.
I love the new version of you. I love what God has thought.
It's affected the family. You see, that is what happens
when the fire of God follows you.
A true transformation. It's not just a Sunday church
thing, it's an everyday thing. OK, now what about Palestine?
You know, I get tired, I run out sometimes I feel flat and
exhausted and worn out. Of course we all do.
But just like we take our phones and we plug it in, we plug into
the log we got to recharge. We, so we reach on and The thing
is, so if I plug my phone in a couple of days blades yesterday
or the day before and I leave it by Wednesday, it's going to be
flat. If I've not plugged it in again,
if I've not charged my phone, it's going to be in the red.
My phone's going to be flat. And so that's why we also need
to plug in. We need to plug in to the Lord
on a daily basis to recharge. So we recharge and we disconnect
with the Lord on a daily basis. OK.
And also it's not just on a Sunday.
So we don't if it's if it's just the Sunday and we got to play
all the way to no, we need to plug in every day of our lives.
OK, And I'm not talking about spending three hours a day and
all of that. That's about a few minutes.
OK, the call when you're typing. Thank you, Lord, for this
amazing day. Thank you for my family and you
disconnect. That's such that's a plug in.
You've you've plugged in right there.
You've read a few scriptures open.
You've plugged in few minutes just I'm not talking about ours.
I'm talking about a hard thing and that's why the bottles, you
know, you're just like, thank you Lord, Jeremiah 29, the Bible
talks you will seek me and you will find me.
And if you seek me with all of your heart, it's a hard thing.
It's not a formula or religion or a duty or so it's a hard
thing of like morning Lord, I've connected to the way I greet my
wife. Sure, I get to keep sporting my
sweetheart, love you. How are you?
Did you say so? It's that conviction.
It's a hard thing calling Lord driving to work.
Thank you that you're with me today.
Thank you that your fire follows me into this meeting.
It's a hard connection. Every in in the store Tesco's
when I go Sainsbury's, I just have a conversation and I'm
like, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord for for placing
the kids. Thank you that you're with us.
It's a hard connection. So what what you've done is
you've connected to the Lord and you charged.
You charged so we don't have to wait until another conference.
We don't have to wait and we thank God for the conference and
the church and all that. But right where we are at work,
I've many times before board meetings, I'll just go to the
bathroom. I'm like, just go into the
bathroom and I'm just like, have a conversation with the Lord,
right? Lord, I thank you that you're
giving me favour with the CEO. We have to get this deal.
And it's every little yes matters, Every little yes
somebody say yes, yeah. And So what seems like a small
flicker, just a little becomes and turns into a big flame, a
steady, strong, huge flame. And this is amazing because it's
a very powerful scripture where Arsenal Paul says to his virtual
son Timothy was he was really going through a difficult time.
And Paul says this to him. He says, listen my son, for this
reason I remind you to fan it, to flame the gift of God, which
is in you through the laying on of my hands.
So the gift is there. Sometimes it feels the flame is
just small, but Paul says, listen, it's there, the cliffs
of God, it's there. So the fire is already in you.
But Paul the Apostle says, listen, it's your job to fan the
flame. Now fan the flame.
You put a locker. Another the KJV version says
stir it up. I love that.
Stir it up. I remember the one time because
I make coffee in the morning and I don't know how you guys, but I
just make the short coffee because I'm up early and you
know, now this is before she liked she's not off sugar.
But anyway, so I make her the coffee and so I put sugar in and
I said my lovely taste the coffee and I I, I did, I did put
tissue, but I forgot to stir it. OK, OK, now my wife, she likes
the coffee. OK, so I'm going to make it
right. I'm going to the right amount of
MO, right amount of full of that.
OK, so I've got to make it right for the Sean.
But she that's the way she likes it.
So I'm like, OK, so I put a sugar in, not more than, you
know, 2 spoons. So I put the sugar, but I forgot
to stir it. So I gave it a coffee and it was
better. OK, so it was put, but it's not
that there wasn't sugar in. I didn't stir it.
The fire is in. You just need to stir sample.
Come on, somebody's getting it's 80 clutch.
It's right there. Just stir it up.
Somebody say stir it up. Come on, church, it's time to
stir it up. Come on, son, it's stir.
You tell your neighbor. Say it's time to stir it up.
Stir it up. Stir it up.
Yes, Stir it up. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Stir it up. Stir it up.
Fan the flame.
Even on the days when you don't feel the fire, you're guilt
tired ordinary. The fire is still there.
I'm like, wow, these symptoms, I don't feel great, but I know the
fire is still there. You might not see the flames,
you might not feel the goosebumps, but the fire is
still there. That sparked that in.
But, you know, when I was growing up, we had a fireplace
in our house. And so before we go to bed, then
when we just let it sort of, you know, you know, go over, go out,
you know, went to bed, let it die down.
And in the morning when I get there, you'd look at it, you're
like, oh, my goodness. It looked like the whole fire.
It's just ashes. It's just ashes.
It seemed like it was over. It's just grey ash, no flames,
nothing exciting. I mean, last night the fireplace
was so nice. But now the next morning, it's
not the same. Where is all the flames?
But if you just took a little poker and you just, you know,
gently, you know, move amongst the ashes, underneath the ashes,
there's these little ambers, you know, little great ambers,
burning coals, that is stall, burning, stall on fire, stall
alive. OK.
And so I just add some wood, little bits, just add wood and,
like, blow on it. Oh, my goodness.
Within minutes, the flames will be back.
Oh, and that fireplace is burning strong and it's warm and
it's steady. So the fire hadn't really gone
out. OK, just drop down to the small
embers. Now.
Maybe some of you, you feel like today and the the ashes and the
disappointments, maybe dreams that had happened.
Maybe things didn't work out the way that you wanted things to
work out in life. Praise won't answer the way that
you have hoped it would be answered.
OK, maybe that you just feel like I am not so excited anymore
about life like I used to be. Always excited, enthusiastic,
passionate. But disappointments happened and
it knocked the wind out of you. Hurt, betrayal and situations,
busy seasons. And it's so easy to think, Oh my
goodness, maybe the fire was going out, you know, but God
brought me here today to tell us that the fire has not gone.
The fire is not going to. It's still there.
Come on, somebody, It's not going to.
It's just under the ashes. The fire.
It's just under the disappointment, OK, it's still
there. The amber is still there.
It's just under the delight. It's just under the busy
schedule. But there's still fire.
So you don't need a brand new fire.
All that you need to do is just stir it up.
Just fan it into flame. The fire that is already on
these. Come on, somebody.
Yes, come on. Somebody shall stir it down.
Yeah, that's it. It's right there.
Just stir it up. Is this helping somebody?
Now, let me just give you another key.
One more key. Yeah.
You have to stay on fire every day is to look at this soil
because remember, this is a pretty amazing parable.
Mark chapter 4, Jesus, he tells this parabol about the former
sovic seed. And so the seed would fall on
different soils. Some seed would fall on the
path, some would fall on the rocky rounds and get them above
the rocks. Some seed fall amongst the
fallen. Some seed fall amongst great
grass. But one thing that's very
important to notice is the same former.
It's the same seed, but different results, different
results. So the seed's powerful, the fog,
all that. But the difference is the swell.
It's different swells. So you've got the path, you've
got the rocky, you've got the thorns, OK, And the thorns.
The problem with the thorns is the chunks.
OK, so you are good sick that word of God is in you.
The anointing about the Holy Ghost, The potential of God is
the very DNA of God is in you, inside of you.
When you receive the word of God, it's in you.
So you are good seed made in the image of God.
OK, but the problem is not the seed, but sometimes the best
seed in the wrong soil. OK, they can maybe survive, but
they won't thrive because Jesus talks about how the thoughts
choke it. The worries of life, the
deceitfulness of riches, chasing after things, OK, the negative
voices, OK, the anger, the gossip, the toxic environments,
OK, Basically chokes. The fire it smothers, it chokes
and that pull you away from God and some of you were wonder
well, I don't know why I don't feel on fire as I used to.
I love God, but I don't feel that you know, I just feel
double and and just low and dry. Now it might not be a hard
problem. I see problem.
It might be a swirl problem. So really just need to change
the swirl because some way the soil, you know, issue is it's
sometimes who you walk with. This is a very powerful truth.
I've thank God, I've God showed this to me many years ago in the
book of Genesis. God told Abraham something very
powerful. He said, listen, leave your
country, leave your people, leave your father's house.
Abraham how people obeyed pathwayed.
How shall obedience? Big mistake because he left his
country. The problem was with Abraham is
he took his nephew. Big mistake.
He took his nephew when God told him very specific and God's very
specific, he said, listen, I want you to leave everything
behind. And so I'm like, OK, So you see,
The thing is when he took a lot with him, you remember the
story, Lot brought a lot of problems.
Yeah, Lot brought issues. He brought strife because what
happened was between Abraham and between Abraham's herdsman and
large herdsman. You can go and read it up.
It's all the book of Genesis. They're arguments between
constant arguments and what happened was because Ibrah did
not out by God fully. He brought Lord with him.
What happened was is that Ibraham had to stop clean up
mesas that he was not even supposed to carry because Lord
brought a lot of problems and so Abraham had a lot to lose.
OK, anyway, somebody's getting that today.
He had a lot to lose because you see the a lot it means violence
kind. That's a bit deep.
We're going a little bit deep. I mean, that's person that
relationship that can actually cause some deception, some
blinders because vile, you see, because here's the thing, it was
only. After Abram fully obeyed when
Abram finally separated from Lot when the vial was lifted.
Oh, I feel the anointing in this place.
Goddess man if goddess speaking somebody himself.
That's when Abraham bodies breakthrough when Lot left
because that very next verse. You can read it in the book of
Genesis says that when largely all of a sudden Abrams eyes up
but he could see a God says yes, lift up your eyes and see as far
as the north to southeast and the West.
See as far as you can see that shows after lot left.
Whoa. I know I feel the power of God
at this place. I feel anointing.
Yeah. And so every one of us, we have
a lot subway. It's a person that brings a lot
of drag on, a person that drains, a person that causes a
lot of headache problems, stresses, worries, sleepless
clients, that person that just, you know, I call them movers
like a like a vacuum cleaner. That's what I call them those.
We all have a lot somewhere. And so a vacuum cleaner, what
they do is you see, they a vacuum cleaner gas, they don't
add anything to your life. A vacuum cleaner, like they suck
the life. I'm like, wow, obviously means
time with that person on the phone or even spend time with
that. Oh, I feel so drained.
My God, I don't want to be around that person anymore.
No, thank you, No, thank you. No, sorry, no, I'm not going to
be around a vacuum cleaner. OK, listen, I just want to say
we love everyone. I'm going to let us just go.
We love everyone. I'm going we kind to everybody.
You have got to understand and you have got to recognize when
that is contaminating your swell, OK, OK, I just want to
let you know because it's a very important for some discernment
and recognize who is the one that's contaminating your swell,
OK? And so yes, we have got to use
discernment, especially when God has been nudging you gently and
saying step away from that relationship.
When the Holy Spirit gently Knights us here and say step
away from that circle, step away from that relationship.
Because here is the problem. When God speaks and we stay,
that's a big problem. We stay because we do not want
to upset the person. I do not want to upset my
nephew, so I'm going to bring in with me.
Lord do you want to come along? Whoa, what is heavy baggage?
Whoa, I brand my new shirt. God said leave him by the hand.
No, I want thought in my life. OK, so you have got to obey God
because this is if you are, let me give you a loving truth
because what you are unwilling to walk away from when God has
nurturing God's been speaking, what you're really unwilling to
walk away. That is where often times that
is where you'll stop growing. That's what smothers, that's
where we'll stop growing. Charge your fire and the Lord
will show you those relationships.
We all have them, not somewhere, and we all need to deal with it.
And God will show you, I don't want to live a life, I want to
stand fire, so I will obey God. And so I remember by it.
And listen, I'm not talking about cutting off your family,
OK? I'm not talking about that.
I'm not saying being rude, but I'm just saying sometimes you
need to adjust your access. It's not just for every person,
OK? When you adjust your access for
some negative people and open your life for some more positive
people, surround yourself with positive people.
Come on, somebody, surround yourself with the right person
that's going at fire for life, that's going to help you
encourage your fire, get your fire, that's going to encourage
you to pray, to come to church. Surround yourself with that type
of person and make time for that.
So God and protect your fire, fan the flame.
I'm like, I'm like, Lord, you know, there was a time when was
it back in here? And I'm like, I, I just cannot
have another conversation with a person in South Africa.
I just said, listen, I'm just going to have to cut that off.
And as a matter of what you do, how much we do and all, it's
just not good enough. So I'm like, Lord, thank you and
God's, that's how God works with us.
So we got to look at this practically.
And so I'm going to just give you 5 simple locks, good locks.
Is that OK? That will help you to stoke and
fan the flame and keep that fire burning.
The very first one, the most important one, it's the word,
because the word is your word, the word of God.
Every time you open the Bible and you get just, I'm just
talking about a few minutes, read the scriptures, even if you
do not understand it all, but you've read those scriptures.
When you have that, you are adding wood, you are throwing
logs on the fire, you are stalking, you're fanning the
flame. Just a few minutes.
You're adding another lot of fire.
The second one is Thanksgiving. You know, gratitude is like
oxygen to fire. When we are thankful, we like
thank you, Lord, gratitude. The Bible says rejoice in the
Lord. Again I say rejoice, yeah, give
thanks to the Lord, wait. Give thanks to the Lord.
Wait, just on the good times when we've got money in the
bank, we give thanks. No, it says what?
Always, always give thanks. And I'm like, Lord, this month
it looks a bit short. It doesn't look very great.
God says give facts. Lord, I feel very sick on
Tuesday. I don't know.
I'm going to make this comfort. God says give facts, give facts.
Rejoice. You see, the problem is with
complaining. It adds water on the logs also
under fire. So complaining is the opposite
when complaining is just let me, it's choking the fire.
So we got to give facts and then you stop the fire.
OK, so while I'm in the shop, while I'm at Tesco's, thank you
Lord. Thank you Lord, you're in
Tesco's. Thank you Lord Diamond Tesco,
thank you for my thought. You just give giving thanks.
And thirdly is community the calls together.
He keeps trying a bride when you look at well, I like a bride.
So I mean, my steaks is just, you know, like I eat meats.
I enjoy meats. So anyways, but yeah, I mean
with a bird of war. So if you have a if you look at
the bride, the ball, the cold staying together, it stays hot.
Am I right? When they've coughed cover, it's
so hot when the cold stay together.
You see the problem is when the coal falls off, that's a big
problem when the coal falls off from the rest of the calls
becomes called very quickly. That's when a believer isolates
himself. OK post, we are not coming to
church. I will do my own thing very
dangerous. This is a listen, I'm talking
about a publical principle across in God's Kingdom.
God's idea, God's plan is the local church.
And so it matters to come to church.
Listen, all the efforts climbing, feel getting dressed,
get the kids, it matters. And let me just tell you,
there's no perfect church. So if you're going to start
hopping to churches, go for it. But I could not advise it.
I would say because when people start hopping, you see them
after two years coming back and they've not grown.
I'm like waste the future in your life of your ground.
And I've been to that church, that church, that church, that
church. You see what happens is it's
important to be planted in a church.
You're never going to find a perfect church, the local body
of Christ. That means God chooses to work
for imperfect people. He chooses to put local churches
in place, plants us there. Find a local church where God
plants you. Stay.
And so God, he's the one that moves us on, not out of a fence.
Oh, I got upset because brother, son, and son, well, I got upset
about that one. Listen, forgive, stay with God.
Don't let a fence remove you from the church.
Don't isolate yourself from the church.
Stay together because coals that stay together are stronger
together. It is worth coming to church.
If we don't come to church, our children will not come to
church. Our children will not if we
don't say that. And I thank God, even in my
traditional church and the Dutch Reformed Church outside of
Pretoria, my mom on a Sunday morning, come on children, we
are going to church. I thank God for that because
otherwise my children is not going to come to church.
And your grandchildren, I love what Doctor Rodney said.
He said your grandchildren will go to hell.
It's a it's a very it's it's so we have to end wherever we are
be planted together in a church because that is what happens
when we are planted together in God's church.
We stay our fire stays hot. Our fire stays hot.
OK, four point obedience. Sometimes Holy Spirit will
notice you let the offence go. Oh that person assert me.
The Holy Spirit will come. And now you say forgive, heart,
betrayal, disagreement, arguments, It's family, but the
Holy Spirit comes. Forgive there.
Let that God love, brother, sister, love, OK, We love one
another. And when you do, when you're
playing the promptings of the Holy Spirit, it's like taking a
wedlock of that fire. Oh, in that offense, when that
hurt, when that it comes off, it's like that fire.
You like bouncing back. The fire of God is just right
there. You're stirring up, you're
fanning the flag, you're right on fire.
Suddenly it just burns brighter. And then the last one, this is
amazing. This is not same verse.
The first one He's serving. It's amazing because that's in
Romans chapter 12. That's a same verse.
Now we come in full circle and this is where the Lord shows
between the on Romans chapter 12.
It's in the same verse. Isn't it amazing that in a very
same verse where it talks about being passionate for the Lord,
it mentions the same word serving, serving in the kids
ministry, serving in the church, serving, serving others reach
out to somebody winning souls serving.
That's that that keeps us on fire.
Come on, am I talking a lot? I love seeing you survey at the
conference. I mean, isn't it amazing serving
with the kids helping with that serving.
I mean in every capacity serving.
It's amazing to see our team, our family coming alongside and
we serving. I mean right thing we have
chicken and then winning the souls.
I mean, isn't that amazing? Yes, out there with exalts.
Why come on somebody. That's how we keep the fire
burning to see us all coming to a conference.
And it's amazing because I am so proud of our church, Eileen.
I mean, it's amazing. We all right there serving.
Come on, we were there. I love it.
I thank God and if you guys coming to a conference and see
our faces, our people there, I'm like I thank God for other
churches, but I thank God for our church.
We've got some fine people here. We've got some amazing people.
I mean, you know, people like Lipton are helping out with our
kids, you know, so that we can be at a conference.
And our breakthrough is your breakthrough.
We are together. Serving keeps a fire.
That's when you start serving and reaching out to somebody.
Go to Peel Center, you tell somebody about Jesus, you are
fanning your flame. Yes, if you are fanning and
stemming or you're tending to your flame when you are waiting
out to somebody else, we tell somebody, give you a plan,
invite somebody to church and watch your fire, watch your
fire. But oh, oh, come on, you feel
the fire when you talk to that person.
I love it. They're on the sides.
I mean, we're this, this is busy London.
I mean, this is like under traffic.
And you see now she stops the traffic.
She she stops the traffic. Listen, when the soul at any
cost, when the souls at any cost, that is amazing.
I'm telling you, Kenny, she'll stop traffic, she'll go
anywhere. She'll call the gospel to get
the pasta to get out of like she I just saw her.
I came in the middle of the road blocking the track.
This is London. She stopped that entire buses.
She stops it like this. I'm telling you.
Plus the Michelle, she's like, my good.
We're walking over here. You carry this block.
Stop all that winning souls. Yeah.
Set this old count. Isn't that amazing?
Let's go for it. 50,000, Doctor Rodney, how about billion souls?
Come on. How many?
100 million of us. It's incredible.
Set that soul. Go.
Go for it. If we don't set goals, nothing.
So at least tell one person about Jesus and tell them we
share that survey. But let me show you the best
because this is a very amazing best.
Romans 12/11. It says they never be lacking in
zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor.
There it comes. Everybody read it out loud.
Serving the law, you stay on fire by serving.
Serving a fire keeps on burning. Serving we keep from burning.
When you reach to others, we stay on fire and so we are
moving from the fireworks fight to the fireplace fight and so
relating that fire follow you home.
So yeah, as we ready to get close, we closed the service
today. How many of you enjoyed the work
today? Hallelujah.
What have you to God? I see some bury on fire people
in this place. I see the fire of God.
Come on, stand to your feet. Give God some praise.
The fire of God is here and the fire follows you home.
It's going with you, somebody. It's going with you.
Just remember that you are not leaving the fire behind in this
place. And I love it because the fire,
the conference fire, changed the address from Kilburn, London.
It changed the address to revival church and background.
Come on, come on. And it's got war post code.
So I tried to get race. It's following you to your to
your house. So the fire is not staying.
Yeah, it's going with you. You're getting that today shows
it's going with you wherever you go.
So when you wake up tomorrow morning, you can say Holy
Spirit, thank you, that you're, that is awesome.
Thank you, Alice, for the joke here with me waking out.
And oh, my goodness, thank you, Lord, that your fire, it follows
me into today. It's my workplace.
It follows me where I'm going to the boardroom meeting.
Your fire follows me to the school, to my job.
The fire is following me to the hospital.
I am not alone. I'm not coming on Monday
morning. I'm not coming alone.
The God is with you, He goes with you.
And so this week, find the flash, stare it out, serve
somebody, reach out with somebody, find somebody,
encourage somebody, get on the text and save somebody an
encouraging word. When you serve somebody, when
you love somebody, tell somebody about Jesus, talk to Sakhari
about what God has done to you because that is very, very
powerful. We all have a testament like,
oh, I was lost, I was struggling, but now I'm blessed.
So just go and we share a testimony with somebody.
God loves you, God bless you. So every time that you do, you
are floating another good luck on the fire and you'll carry a
fire that follows your hope wherever you go.
And you will stay on fire for Jesus every single day.
Come on, let's put our hands together.
So I'm going to point for you because maybe you today, you,
like you remember a time when you used to be on fire and you
don't feel so on fire or bold or hungry for God.
But life got busy and so there may have been disappointments,
maybe hurt, and you just feel tired or worn down.
Maybe you love God, but you feel that your zeal has dropped and
you've allowed worry on the pressures of life to smother my
fire. But today I believe that God is
saying, let me breathe on that flame again.
Let me take you from fireworks faith to fireplace faith and let
me go with you. Let the fire, my Holy Ghost
fire, go with you. Go to wherever you go.
So in your heart I want you right now.
If that is you and you say I want steady fire, not just a
moment. I want the presence not just in
a conference or church, but I want God's presence in my, my
car, my church, my workplace, my kitchen.
Then this is for you. So that's you.
Put your hand on your heart, find where you are as a sign
that you want a fire that follows you home.
Because I have a feeling we are not leaving this place the same.
Now pray this out loud with me. Lord Jesus, thank you for
lighting the fire in me today. I bring my heart again where
I've grown tired. Breathe on me.
I want a fire that follows me whole into my conversations, my
decision. Help me to guard my soil, my
relationships. Help me to fan the flame.
From this day I will not be lacking zeal.
I will keep my passion boiling heart on fire for you and I will
stay on fire every day in Jesus name.
Now give him some praise somebody Hallelujah.
Now raise your hands to heaven as I pray.
Heaven you Father, I pray for every person in this place.
I see. Lord, we the person may have
gone cold or tired or when they feel disappointed.
Lord, I thank you that you see the difficulty in the struggle
when it feels like the fire is low and right now, in the name
of Jesus, I ask for fresh fire to touch every heart, to stir it
up, fan it into flames, set it ablaze.
Holy Ghost, fire, breathe on your people to flame the gift of
God that is in there. Let every ember catch fire
again. Let joy arise, let peace arise.
Let faith and courage rise. Lord, let this not just be a
Sunday feeling, but a Monday reality and everyday reality.
Let your fire. Follow them home, Lord, Use them
this week as carriers of your fire, in their homes, in their
workplaces, in their schools. Every conversation we speak,
fresh flair over every heart. We declare we will burn bride.
We declare the life on fire, a fire that follows them home in
the mighty name of Jesus. Somebody.
If you receive that, give the Lord a start of three.
Come on, thank him for fresh fire today.
Now let's make some declarations together.
Say this out loud. Say the fire of God.
He's painting in me every day, everywhere I go.
I protect my fire. I stay close to the right
people. I turn down the lone voices
everyday I plug in. I plug into God's presence.
The Holy Gobson fire lives in me.
I'm stepping into a fireplace. Faith steady and strong, always
burning. I will stay on fire.
Every day I will carry a fire that follows me home in Jesus
mighty name. Give God some pray.