Blazing Fire's Encouraging Blog

As a reminder  from Him, I believe the Lord is working on the depth of our relationship with Him in preparation for the next great outpouring of His Spirit. For decades there has been prophetic words about a coming revival that will be so powerful and amazing beyond anything we have experienced in history. For us to contain this, He is anchoring us in intimacy with Him. He is encouraging us to be fully honest and frank with Him in all things. He’s our best friend no matter what. Like it says in Proverbs 3:6, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” Now, He is making it clear about how important it is to be candid with Him without fear of rejection since He knows it all anyway. As we do, He reveals His glory, His lovingkindness, His compassion, His patience, His empathy, His presence and all of who He is which is love. As this becomes clear to us, we become like Him. We become those things. We reflect His nature. We feel like Him, act like Him and th...

Needless to say, there’s been a heap of turmoil in the world, and in America this rose to a crescendo during our recent presidential elections as it has a way of doing every four years. Because we all hold fiercely at times to our cherished opinions of how the world ought to be as well as how it’s going to happen, half of the United States was poised to be incredibly disheartened with the election results. Yet, regardless of whether you were devastated or exuberant with the outcome, God is equally in the midst of each of us doing something much deeper in our hearts…   “We are all in love with our own opinions, convinced they’re correct. But the Lord is in the midst of us,  testing and probing our every motive.” Proverbs 16:2  (TPT)   Because of his tender love for us, he brings to the surface areas of our hearts where we have placed our trust in people or situations or outcomes rather than himself and the goodness of his heart toward us. Then he invites us to explore...

Welsh Revival (1904-05) Less than 20 people (17 people) gathered at Moriah Chapel October 31, 1904 when Evan Roberts preached. All present gave their lives to Christ. When these 17 people came to Christ, Roberts knew that the revival he had been praying his whole life for had come. In less than six months, over 100,000 people got saved and the entire nation was radically transformed. This later became known as the Welsh Revival and released impartation for the Azusa Street Revival. Roberts, only 26 years old at the time, led that first catalytic meeting with less than 20 people present.   Azusa Street Revival (1906) On April 9, 1906 in a little home on Bonnie Brae St. in Los Angeles, less than 20 people (around 15 people), many of whom were on a 10 day fast, gathered together with one agenda, to be baptized by the Holy Spirit. They wanted to tap into what those at the Upper room waited for. As William J. Seymour preached on Acts 2, the Spirit fell upon them, baptizing several of th...