[revival-fire] Re: Rain or Fire? you decide.....

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Well put, Matthew!  Soon we'll all sing "I've seen fire & I've seen rain" !!!   

On May 29, 2008, at 10:44 AM, matthew Oliver wrote:

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I love experience the Fire of the Lord.  The all consuming fire, that purifies, that ignites, that consumes, that burns with passion, spirit, power.  It is hot and intense and it is real.  But it falls short of the fulfillment of the promise of God. 

It is good, it is real, but it is not enough.

I truly believe that right now what is taking place at specific locals is FIRE.  The fire from heaven falling on certain spots, consuming, intense, powerful.  And everyone who comes into that fire gets blasted.  They get changed.  They get ignited.  They experience God.  It is good, it is powerful, it is awesome.

but there is MORE!

When Elijah called down the fire, it blew everyone away.  All that were there new that God, was the one true God!  They were amazed, in awe, they began to worship God!  The fire came down and was an expression of the anointing, the power, the Spirit. 

YET!!!!!!

That was not enough for Elijah.  WHY?

Because the Fire was not the fulfillment of the promise.  Why would he stop short of what God had promised?????

Fire was great, but that was not what God had promised.  God had promised the RAIN!!!!!

and here is the difference.

Read this....

Fire hits a local spot!  Rain saturates a region!

What Elijah experienced on the mountain top, the whole region experienced when the rain came! 

When the rain comes everyone benifits from the outpouring. 

It is not contained.  It saturates all!

I have seen and experienced the FIRE!  But i want the promise of the COMING RAIN!

The word says that he will pout out the Former and the Later rain together!  Yes!

Then He says that in the season of the RAIN - Cry out for RAIN!  because there is MORE!

I want to see the glory of the Lord saturate this LAND! 

I will not be appeased by the FIRE!  I want the Promise of the LORD in its fullness!

We so often get sidetracked by the WOW of God, and stop short of the fullness!  I have seen the WOW - but I want MORE! 

I want the PROMISE!

Let's pursue together!  Let's cry out for rain! 

 

Last night at Family Christian Center, with the youth and young adults, and the very hungry, we felt the rain of the glory.

It was like liquid Glory falling down!

There were healings - a back was completely straightened out.  A broken Finger was completely healed, the bruising and the swelling gone, knees were healed, where someone couldn't even bend them before!

And the glory was present.  Hearts were being healed, love was flowing.  The power was there!  And we want MORE!

Let us pursue together and not lose site of the fullness of the promises of God!  Let us not be so easily appeased.  Let us not be so easily satisfied. 

I love miracles, but I want to see the miraculous

I love the fire, but I want the Rain

I love the encounters, but I long for transformation

I can't wait to get to heaven, but I long for heaven to come to earth!

Oh – that we would stay passionate and pursue the MORE of God!

See ya on the battle lines

Matthew Oliver

Just as wild as ever, and loving every minute of it!

 

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