Month: May 2013

What are Fire Carriers? Rachel Hickson told us at the Message Prayer Day… (here are my notes) People who carry presence, passion and power! Lk 3:16We are meant to be baptised with the Holy Spirit and with fire! Fire and water DO mix in God’s economy. Stay wet – monasticAnd on fire – mission When dry people carry fire, it’s dangerous. But we get wet and put our feet on Britain’s dry ground.Isaiah 44:3This is not just for us, it’s for our descendants. Wet people burn! If we are dry and we burn we get burnt out. Some people are scary for all the wrong reasons. So stay wet in the presence of God1 Kings 18:33-38The prophets of Baal were the new spirituality.They set up a dry altar. Prayed to the God of fire. Elijah says – wet it again and again. Let the water overflow. It’s seriously wet! Because you have serious challenges and God wants to put some serious fire on you. Fire that touches you touches everything around you.Are you a fire carrier? It’s great to touch the […]

Grace has become a theological abstract that we argue about. Grace is basically the generosity of God wanting to bless you. Don’t live in the kingdom of grace AND fear. ‘God has to love me, but really I deserve to be punished.’ Sin is nothing compared to the power of grace. The vast majority of us though are not perfect. So what do we do with those who mess up? One act of grace deals with it all! So you really ARE forgiven. And if we really got that – we’d be a lot easier on ourselves and everyone else. If we get the abundance of grace, then we can REIGN in life. When sin abounds, grace hyper-abounds. Sin is like dog poo on your shoe! No point ignoring it, it will start to stink and everyone around you will notice. Imagine you have that shoe under Victoria Falls. That’s hyper abounding grace. So because of that – we are FREE! When we say to ourselves we are not worthy it’s because we have an idol not God. Because the […]