I have just got home from spending the afternoon with my Aunt who attends Roffey Bible College in Horsham.
I attended a conference with her this evening and Pastor Colin Urquhart was preaching - all I can say is WOW!!! He was speaking the exact words I needed to hear. We were looking at Revelation 3:15-21.
Colin spoke about how God hates half-heartedness, He hates compromise, He hates luke-warmness. God hates these things because these things are far less than what He made possible for us, by pouring His love and Spirit in our hearts.
In verse 18 it states "I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich..." How can you become rich in God? To buy gold refined in the fire. The fire causes the impurities to come to the top, the scum is then skimmed off. This process is then repeated to purify you again.
God wants you to be on fire, not luke-warm. It is so easy for us to coast along with the Lord.
God asks us to buy the gold from Him. Meaning we can only get the precious gold if we give of ourselves. We need to be refined and purified, so when we give of ourselves He puts us in the fire to purify and refine us.
This fire also produces passion. Passion enables us to do what God wants us to do. If we want to be in the glory of God we need to make every effort to be in the glory of God. Anything less than this, is failure.
This fire is within all of us.
2 Timothy 1:6 "...I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God..."
I attended a conference with her this evening and Pastor Colin Urquhart was preaching - all I can say is WOW!!! He was speaking the exact words I needed to hear. We were looking at Revelation 3:15-21.
Colin spoke about how God hates half-heartedness, He hates compromise, He hates luke-warmness. God hates these things because these things are far less than what He made possible for us, by pouring His love and Spirit in our hearts.
In verse 18 it states "I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich..." How can you become rich in God? To buy gold refined in the fire. The fire causes the impurities to come to the top, the scum is then skimmed off. This process is then repeated to purify you again.
God wants you to be on fire, not luke-warm. It is so easy for us to coast along with the Lord.
God asks us to buy the gold from Him. Meaning we can only get the precious gold if we give of ourselves. We need to be refined and purified, so when we give of ourselves He puts us in the fire to purify and refine us.
This fire also produces passion. Passion enables us to do what God wants us to do. If we want to be in the glory of God we need to make every effort to be in the glory of God. Anything less than this, is failure.
This fire is within all of us.
2 Timothy 1:6 "...I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God..."
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