Skip to main content

Repairing Broken Altars 2

In 1Kings 18:4-39, a contest was called by Prophet Elijah to prove who the true God is. The people had been wavering between God and the demon god Baal. Even if they would want to return to the true God, the meeting point between them and God had been destroyed. For this relationship to be restored, a repair must be effected at the point of meeting. One thing that the Lord would want us to see as part of our discourse is the steps Elijah took before calling on God and getting such an awesome answer.

Elijah knew that before God can answer any prayer, there is a need to return to the location of the meeting. When God is set to speak or interract with a person, there is a location. God does not work hapharzadly. That was why in the Old testament, He told the people to worship Him in the place He had chosen to put His name. By the time we got to the New Testament, He declared that we must worship Him in Truth and Spirit - which can only take place in the heart of the person. Friend there is a location! Where is your heart? He warned us not to give our attention to the things of the world or they will steal our hearts. Have your heart wandered away from the Lord and you have done everything humanly possible to bring it back to Him and its been increasingly difficult? The Lord is here to help you. You did not come by this write-up by mistake!

Let us see what Elijah did. He rebuilt the Altar according to the pattern God had prescribed to Moses, he arranged the wood and the burnt offering accordingly. Please do note that he dug trenches round the Altar to hold gallons of water. Then he called on the Lord. The wood signifies the Word of God. The Lord told the Priests to always put fresh wood on the Altar so that the fire will not go out. Once there is no fresh wood the fire would die. How much of the Word of God do you have in you? There is a need to feed your heart with the Word of God on a daily basis, not just on Sundays or Bible study days. The burnt offering signifies our lives. The Bible tells us in Roman 12:1-2 to make a decisive dedication of our bodies to the Lord. The trenches dug round the Altar signifies that we must come before the Lord with an hunger and thirst for Him. We cannot come before Him with pre-concieved ideas or full with principles of this world. 

Friend, what state is your heart that you are expecting earth shaking miracles? If the altar is not properly dressed, wood arranged and the burnt offering on it, fire cannot fall from heaven. So many come before the Lord with empty altars expecting fire from Heaven. Friend, Fire does not fall on empty altars!

When the heart is not right God will not hear. Look inwards and redirect your heart back to the Master. Do this and you will be in for unprecedented, eye popping miracles in Jesus name.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

You Are What Matters Most To Jesus Christ

 "When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; Walk [habitually] before Me [with integrity, knowing that you are always in My presence], and be blameless and complete [in obedience to Me]" (Genesis 17:1, AMP).        A while back, I overheard a conversation between two young men; both were wondering how a person can be and remain holy in a world that daily encourages you to exhibit and enjoy every self-indulgent pleasure one desires. Of course, they knew the Scripture in Psalm 119:9-11, which describes how a young man can keep his way pure, but they feel it is increasingly becoming difficult to discern the way of the Lord from the world system. To them, many Pastors and children of God have been won over by the kingdom of darkness to subvert the principles of God as written in the Bible.           They were not wrong, in light of some of the teaching coming from the pulpits! The above ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Finding True Love

         From the beginning of time, God Almighty has sought various means of communicating His thoughts and desires to humanity. Through the very things He has created around us, He clearly reveals His divine nature and our predestined purposes as the object of His love to those who care enough to pay attention.  His goal has always been to set men free from all that limits them from experiencing an abundant life. There is no doubt that the present life as we know it, with all its hurts, pains and heartbreak was never meant to be this way; indeed the enemy has done this.         Friends, if He created the earth with hidden and precious treasures, then how much more you? The enemy, on the other hand, has worked overtime to create things that bind, blind, limit, and ultimately stop us from fulfilling our God-given destinies. His most successful strategies are those which are subtle and appeal to our fleshly desires, just as...
1 comment
Read more

The Perverted Love Of St Valentine's Day

         We live in a world where those who suppress the truth have the loudest voices. They are more persuasive in their arguments because their arguments sound logical and well-reasoned. However, the fact that an argument is loud and logical does not necessarily mean it is the truth. At the same time, the fact that an argument is loud and logical does not mean it is of God. So many claim they do not care where it originates from, but they agree with and have bought into its message. If that is your stance, then you need to hear this because what you believe and have bought into is a lie. Remember, ignorance is not bliss but a dangerous position to occupy as many ‘ignorants’ abound in hell!        The argument for celebrating St. Valentine's Day is loud and sounds logical but it is not the truth, nor is it of God! It is not of God because the love that Jesus Christ portrays carries within it the responsibility of self-sacrifice whilst that o...
Post a Comment
Read more