{"id":3673,"date":"2019-08-10T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:05:11","slug":"are-you-smoke-or-are-you-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/are-you-smoke-or-are-you-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Smoke or are you Fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Artist Kerolos Safwat. \u201cThis is my VERY fave pic of seeing Jesus for the first time! Most pics are sweet and humbling. I get it. But this! This is exactly how I want to run into His arms and say \u201cit\u2019s YOU! it\u2019s really YOU! Oh how I LOVE YOU!\u201d This totally captures how I picture my first few moments in Heaven! Whoo hoo!!\u201d<\/span><\/h6>\n

I chose this amazing art work because it spoke to my heart and is exactly how I feel! This artist gets it…I thought it would go perfectly with what I wrote. God bless you Kerolos…<\/p>\n

Friday, August 9, 2019<\/h6>\n

Coming before the Lord this morning\u2026all I could do was say, \u201cHere I am Lord, I have no agenda, no pre-conceived ideas. I don\u2019t want to declare anything or ask you for anything\u2026Lord I\u2019m just here\u2026I\u2019m here Lord\u2026I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then in my spirit I began to hear\u2026. \u201cThat\u2019s all I wanted. I just wanted you to sit with me, be with me have some quiet time together.\u201d<\/h6>\n
My mind went to how when children want something, they come rushing into the room, there\u2019s no, \u201cHi mom\/dad, how are you? Can I do anything for you?\u201d They just start demanding, \u201cCan I have some money? So, and so, is going here or there and I want to go too. I need a new outfit, shoes etc., can I go? Can I? They get what they want, \u201cSee ya later.\u201d And off they go. They rush out of the room without a hug or a thank you.<\/h6>\n
It was, as if, God was saying to me, \u201cCan I just have a hug?\u201d<\/h6>\n
And so, I sat still and listened\u2026everything was quiet. There were no demands. It\u2019s just me and God. \u201cYes God.\u201d And spiritually speaking, I gave him a hug.<\/h6>\n
After a few minutes I began to have this thought, \u2018Are you smoke or are you fire?\u2019<\/h6>\n
Sometimes we are simply smoldering\u2026there is smoke but the fire has diminished and we realize we are not as hot for the things of God, as we once were. Where is the FIRE?
\nOh, we attend church\u2026sing loudly, praise boisterously, pray without ceasing\u2026but something is not quite right\u2026we are rushing in and out of God\u2019s presence without being aware of Him\u2026and we begin to notice the fire has gone out\u2026<\/h6>\n
Humbly and repentantly we realize we are only smoke\u2026and smoke chokes out the light\u2026it smells and accomplishes nothing\u2026<\/h6>\n
Holy Fire purifies\u2026 it sets us apart from the rest of the world\u2026when we are on fire for God, we are bold and brave and courageous\u2026cry out for the Holy Spirit and Fire ask him to fall afresh on you\u2026walk in newness every single day\u2026fresh fire! Let it Fall\u2026you have to keep it burning by rekindling it every single day\u2026<\/h6>\n
Don\u2019t just rush in and out of God\u2019s presence give God a great big HUG\u2026tarry there until you are filled with Fresh Fire and the Power to glorify the Living God! Amen!!!<\/h6>\n
Piece written by~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill August 10, 2019<\/h6>\n
Matthew 3:11-12 The Message (MSG)<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019m baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. The real action comes next: The main character in this drama\u2014compared to him I\u2019m a mere stagehand\u2014will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out. He\u2019s going to clean house\u2014make a clean sweep of your lives. He\u2019ll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he\u2019ll put out with the trash to be burned.\u201d<\/em><\/h6>\n
Revelation 3:15-17 New International Version (NIV)<\/strong> I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm\u2014neither hot nor cold\u2014I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, \u2018I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.\u2019 But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Romans 8:38-39 New King James Version (NKJV)<\/strong> For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artist Kerolos Safwat. \u201cThis is my VERY fave pic of seeing Jesus for the first time! Most pics are sweet and humbling. I get it. But this! This is exactly how I want to run into His arms and say \u201cit\u2019s YOU! it\u2019s really YOU! Oh how I LOVE YOU!\u201d This totally captures how I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-Xf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}