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by Michael H. Yeager (Author)
Smith Wigglesworth: *Smith - "Repeat in your heart often: "BAPTIZED with the Holy Ghost and FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!" All the unction, and weeping, and travailing comes through the baptism of FIRE, and I say to you and say to myself, purged and cleansed and filled with renewed spiritual power." "God Makes His Ministers a FLAME of FIRE" Heb. 1:7*We must with our whole heart believe that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is meant to make us FLAMEs of FIRE.*John the Baptist said concerning Jesus, "He shall BAPTIZE you with the Holy Ghost, and with FIRE." God's ministers are to be a FLAME of FIRE-a perpetual FLAME, a constant FIRE, a continual burning FLAME, burning and shining lights. God has nothing less for us than to be FLAMEs of FIRE. We must have a living faith in God, a faith that God's great might and power may Burn in us until our whole life is energized by the power of God. *I see people from time to time very slack, cold, and indifferent; but after they get filled with the Holy Spirit, they become ablaze for God. I believe that God's ministers are to be FLAMEs of FIRE; nothing less than FLAMEs; nothing less than mighty instruments with BURNING messages.*I say all these things to you to move you into a living faith in God; for what will it profit me without some of you are turned into FLAMEs of FIRE? What will it profit me if I turn from these meetings and you have only heard my voice and seen me? God would never have John and Peter and James to move up and down the world and leave people where they found them. *God wants to flow through you with measureless power of divine utterance and grace till your whole body is a FLAME of FIRE. God intends each soul in Pentecost to be a live wire. Not a monument, but a movement. *"If you want to increase in the life of God, then you must settle it in your heart that you will not at any time resist the Holy Spirit. The Holy Ghost and FIRE - the FIRE BURNING up everything that would impoverish and destroy you."* I ask every one of you listening to the sound of my voice, will you hear the voice of God and come out? You ask, "What do you mean?" Everyone who is hungry for God knows without exception, there is only one word for Pentecost, and that is FIRE! If you are not on FIRE you are not in the place were God can mightily use you. It is only the FIRE of God that BURNs up the entanglements of the world.*But oh, the BAPTISM in the Holy Ghost! The BAPTISM of FIRE! The BAPTISM of power! The BAPTISM of oneness! The BAPTISM of the association! The BAPTISM of communion! The BAPTISM of the Spirit of life which takes the man shakes him through, builds him up, and makes him know he is a new creature in the Spirit, worshipping God in the Spirit.
