Pastor Stephanie
Our God is the consuming fire and a jealous God.
God is a consuming fire and God is love.
God loves us so much that He wants to hold us exclusively.
We are exclusive to God.
In the original meaning:
“Jealous” means wishing to hold on to what is yours.
“Envious" means wanting to be like someone else.
He wants to be our God.
He wants to live with us.
He wants to lead us in our lives.
God wants to be with man.
His heart is devoted to His people and children. NUMBERS 9:15-22 CEV
But when the cloud moved, they followed it, and wherever it stopped, they camped and stayed there, whether it was only one night, a few days, a month, or even a year.
As long as the cloud remained over the tent, the Israelites stayed where they were.
But when the cloud moved, so did the Israelites.
God had to revealed Himself through the clouds.
He always lead us to the promise land.
He wants to guide our lives, just that sometimes we didn't seek for Him and we didn't ask Him.
God gives us good things even when we don't deserve it.
Grace is getting the good that we don't deserve it.
We don't deserve because we have fall short of the glory of God.
Mercy is not getting the bad that we deserve.
We can still commune with God because of the mercy seat; the mercy of God.
Today we have come back into a relationship with Him.
A relationship is where we speak, we talk, we fellowship with each other.
Today we can talk to God and He can talk to us above the mercy seat.
Ark of covenant - God's grace and mercy to commune with people and live with them
God wants to dwell and reside with man.
The word is related to the Hebrew language word “shakan”, which means “to dwell” or “to reside” with the added emphasis of being a permanent resident in a community.
In the Bible, this display of God’s dwelling among human beings is described as His “GLORY.”
Aleph and Shin is in both man and woman.
Hence, fire is inside both man and woman.
God was meant to be in man and woman.
Man and woman is supposed to have God and his fire.
It was God's initial intention when He created man and woman.
Holy spirit is also connected with fire because Holy Spirit is God.
ROMANS 5:5 TPT
And this hope is not a disappointing fantasy, because we can now experience the endless LOVE of GOD cascading into our HEARTS through the HOLY SPIRIT who LIVES in US!
When Holy Spirit comes, he gives us LOVE OF GOD.
Holy Spirit came and poured out God's love.
We need to continue to renew our mind.
Holy Spirit dwell in our heart and not out mind.
The love of God is poured out in our heart.
In Ahavah, the source is from Aleph.
This love is not initiated from us but it comes from God.
Love.
The English term has many meanings.
In modern thought love is an emotion that can be turned on and off like a light switch.
Love or "ahava" in the Hebraic mind is very different in today's culture.
In the Hebrew, love is connected directly with action and obedience.
Strong's Exhaustive Dictionary defines ahava as "to have affection, love, like, to befriend, to be intimate."
It brings to mind the idea of LONGING for or BREATHING for ANOTHER.
God longs for us to be with Him all the time.
Hebraically AHAVA is a verb and a noun, it is an ACT of DOING.
Ahava is not just a feeling.
The root word of ahava is "ahav."
The term ahav in Hebrew means, "TO GIVE."
True ahava, true love, is more concerned about giving than receiving.
Being the center of someone's attention isn't love.
And love isn't about getting some feeling or fix.
God is giving and He is not asking us for anything.
Ahava is about GIVING DEVOTION and TIME.
Giving is the vehicle of love. YHWH so loved the world that He GAVE His only Son.
Meaningful relationships have mutual giving.
Love may focus on receiving, but ahava is all about giving.
There is a difference.
Consider that the Hebrew word "ahava" is not an emotion but an action.
It is not something that happens "to you" but a condition that you create when you give.
You don't "fall" in love - you GIVE love!
Human being can fall short of that.
We can only give to a certain extend. There is a limit.
Only our God can give us unlimitedly.
ISAIAH 43:10 KJV
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Our whole life is the testimony.
People will see.
Ark of covenant - For God to come down to commune with people.
Presence of God is like the light.
Holy Spirit comes to give us love of God inside our heart.
When God can now live in our heart, we shall be His witnesses.
None of us have this love (love of God) by ourself.
We need Holy Spirit to put this love inside our heart.
Spirit of God living inside man.
We can see in the realm where we can forgive others.
This is done by God himself.
Everyone of us who are born again, we have received ahava in our heart.
We will become man and woman of FIRE.
All of us born again are supposed to be fire of love.
This love no one has experienced before after Adam sinned.
When we said a person is on fire means that person have a lot of passion.
People of God were meant to be people of passion.
In everything that we do there is fire.
If we don't have fire we are like half dead.
We are FLAMES OF FIRE, MINISTERS OF GOD.
What God says is burning in our hearts.
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