Wednesday Service | Getting Directions From God | PART 13: KEEP THE FIRE BURNING | Pastor Bernard Kirabira
April 5, 2023Matt 3:11 NKJV
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Acts 17:28 NKJV
For in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
Reasons we lose the fire:
(1) When we fall into sin
Genesis 3:8 NKJV
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9 NKJV
Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”
Genesis 3:10 NKJV
So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
Genesis 3:21 NKJV
Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.
(2) When disaster befalls you
Acts 28:1 NKJV
Now when they had escaped, they then found out that the island was called Malta.
Acts 28:2 NKJV
And the natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold.
Acts 28:3 NKJV
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Jude 1:20 NKJV
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit…
Gal 5:16 NKJV
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.