the FireCarrier

The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails —given by one shepherd. Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the duty of all mankind. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭12‬:‭11‬-‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Slow your pace and listen for me. I will speak with you. I will show myself within your dreams. I will give direction for the challenges within your life. Come now and allow me to clean away your confusion and anxiety. Come and reach out to me.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬-‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬ I am watching over you in your daily travel. Listen for me as I will be with you. I will prompt you, teaching you to respond. Learn my voice and follow what I will say to you. In it is life.

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace. ‭‭Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭11‬-‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Quiet your inner self and listen for me. Be listening. I will whisper needed corrections to you. Don't allow anxiety to be your guide. Be washed in the truth and love of my written word. You can find me there. Recognize what I may say to you.  You are under my grace. It is life.

There is a river whose streams bring joy to the city of God, the holy place where the Most High lives. God is in that city. It cannot fall. God will help it at the break of dawn. Nations are in turmoil, and kingdoms topple. The earth melts at the sound of God’s voice. The Lord of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭46‬:‭4‬-‭7‬ ‭GW‬‬ Come and rest beneath the shadows I have placed for you. There is no terror nor anxiety I will fill you with my peace. My presence is what you need. Walk forward with me. There is no need to look back at what once was but look ahead. See with new eyes what I have supplied.

God’s divine power has given us everything we need for life and for godliness. This power was given to us through knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and integrity. Through his glory and integrity he has given us his promises that are of the highest value. Through these promises you will share in the divine nature because you have escaped the corruption that sinful desires cause in the world. ‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭GW‬‬ Come and rest beneath the shadows I have placed for you. I will fill you with my peace. With me there is no terror nor anxiety. My presence is what you need. Walk forward with me. There is no need to look back at what once was, but look ahead. See with new eyes what I have supplied.

On the fifth day of the sixth month in the sixth year, I was sitting in my home. Judah’s leaders were sitting in front of me. The power of the Almighty Lord came over me. As I looked, I saw something that looked like a human. From the waist down its body looked like fire, and from the waist up its body looked like glowing metal. It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner courtyard of the temple. That was where an idol that stirs up ⌞God’s⌟ anger was located. There I saw the glory of Israel’s God as I did in the vision that I saw in the valley. ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭8‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭GW Don't be fearful, but awaken your inner-self to me and my word. Within it you will find life and direction for the way I have for you. Allow my healing to reach within you. My holiness will bring wholeness to you. You will become awake...

Our message is not about ourselves. It is about Jesus Christ as the Lord. We are your servants for his sake. We are his servants because the same God who said that light should shine out of darkness has given us light. For that reason we bring to light the knowledge about God’s glory which shines from Christ’s face. Our bodies are made of clay, yet we have the treasure of the Good News in them. This shows that the superior power of this treasure belongs to God and doesn’t come from us. ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭4‬:‭5‬-‭7‬ ‭GW‬‬ I am the unchanging creator-God. What am I creating through you? What lives are being affected? Bring them closer to me and watch. Expect them and you to grow more and more into my image.

Yet, even today, when they read the books of Moses, a veil covers their minds. But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. This Lord is the Spirit. Wherever the Lord’s Spirit is, there is freedom. As all of us reflect the Lord’s glory with faces that are not covered with veils, we are being changed into his image with ever-increasing glory. This comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬-‭18‬ ‭GW‬‬ Quiet your inner noise. Allow patience to direct you in your daily journey. Walk in the freedom of knowing me and my love. I am there now. I am with you, waiting for you to reach out, believing.

The Spirit of the Lord is with me. He has anointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to announce forgiveness to the prisoners of sin and the restoring of sight to the blind, to forgive those who have been shattered by sin, to announce the year of the Lord’s favor. ‭‭Luke‬ ‭4‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭GW Slow down and examine things. What are your expectations as you learn to trust in me? Stretch forth and become what has been already spoken over you. My words have been planted within you. Now soak in my water.

Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble. The Lord protects and preserves them— they are counted among the blessed in the land— he does not give them over to the desire of their foes. The Lord sustains them on their sickbed and restores them from their bed of illness. I said, “Have mercy on me, Lord; heal me, for I have sinned against you.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭41‬:‭1‬-‭4‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Don't be in a hurry, but pause in your day. Stop and listen for me. My voice will speak what you need, but not always what you may wish to hear, Listen and receive from me.

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭17‬:‭26‬-‭28‬ ‭NIV‬‬ As you move about the twists and turns in your life, know I am with you. I will guide you. I will be your protection from the enemy. You can learn from what I place within your pathway. Reach out to me, expecting I will answer you. Look to me. I am there with you.

I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him. Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods. Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but my ears you have opened— burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll. I desire to do your will, my God; your law is within my heart.” I proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, Lord, as you know. ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭40‬:‭1‬-‭9‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick. Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples. The Jewish Passover Festival was near. When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. ‭‭John‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭6‬ ‭NIV Watch for me as I reach through your day. I will guide you, if you will listen to me and listen for me. I can open new pathways for you to examine. Reach out to others. Help them to know my love and caring. Speak to their needs and to their hearts, as I speak to you.

To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.” ‭‭Jude‬ ‭1‬:‭24‬-‭25‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Come and be with me. Sit and hear. Listen to the sounds of nature as they sing out in the way they were created. You too have a song to be singing. Let your words be heard. Reach others. Allow me to be seen through your attitude.

But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15‬:‭20‬-‭26‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Stop and consider, what have your night dreams been telling you? Think upon them and explore the direction I have placed within them for you. Reach out. My ways are there for you.

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret—it leads only to evil. For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land. ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭37‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Be surrounded with me and the safety I bring for you. Allow it to grow you. Be filled yet be hungry for more. Follow me. Become a reflection of my love. As you learn to listen, I can whisper my way for you to move. Trust in me. I am there even now.

So it is with you. Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church. For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else, who is now put in the position of an inquirer, say “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying? You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified.” ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭14‬:‭12‬-‭17‬ ‭NIV Allow me to show you my love this day. Put aside anxiety and search for my ways. They will surprise and encourage you. Look for me, expecting you should find my way for you. I have not left you to the way of the enemy. I have shown you what is important. No...

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. ‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭1‬:‭3‬-‭5‬ ‭NIV Sit quiet. Look through the mess all about you. If you listen, you will hear my guiding direction. Follow it. Trust my word. I am the only way for true peace. I am the only way to life. I will reveal my way to those who have learned to listen.

There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. ‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭6‬-‭11‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Draw closer. Become who you are in me. You are one piece of many. All are loved. All are important. You too can share my wisdom. Come near. Watch what I will do.

After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.” ‭‭John‬ ‭17‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Are you ready to stretch forth your hand and receive healing. You are whole. Now reach out to others. Guide them in my pathway. Show them my love and direction. I have shown you the way. Now be my example to those I send to you. Allow my love to guide you.