Want the FIRE of God?

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Guess what? If you are Spirit-filled, you ALREADY HAVE IT!

"I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire." - Matthew 3:11 KJV (emphasis added)

When you get baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost, the FIRE comes with it! Hows that for POWER?

Further on in Matthew 10:1, Jesus tells us that we have POWER against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease. ALL. PERIOD. ALL means just that, ALL.

That means that we have the POWER available to us to use against ALL sicknesses and diseases, not just against one, but not the other! EVERYTHING! Jesus won against EVERYTHING when He went to the cross!

There is NO DEMON or SICKNESS that has power over the Holy Ghost, or is too hard for the Lord to heal, ("Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for Me?" - Jeremiah 32:27) but rather, the Holy Ghost is MORE POWERFUL than ANY demon or sickness! And where does He live?

Think about it! When you get baptized and filled with the HOLY GHOST and FIRE, and you know that you have that POWER INSIDE OF YOU, you literally have more POWER in the pinky of your hand than the devil has in the whole world!

It is by this POWER that is available to us through the Holy Ghost that we are able TO DESTROY the works of the devil!

Church, I just want to encourage you to start using that POWER, that FIRE, to go out to Heal the sick, Cleanse the lepers, Raise the dead, and Cast out devils! This is what we are called to do as followers of Christ!

Stand up in your POWER and AUTHORITY as a believer, and start using it! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! YOUR hand!

M M Scanlon

TEACH. PREACH. HEAL.

Fight fire with FIRE from HEAVEN.

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More on Healing...

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 A Day of  Healing AND Salvation

Back in 2003, I was still praying for my eldest son's Salvation. I prayed and prayed as a mother would, and yet every time that I would ask my son if he would receive the Lord Jesus as his Savior, he would tell me that he was not 'ready' yet. I grieved over this, and prayed that the Lord would get his attention.  

One day shortly after praying, my youngest son was outside playing with his sisters. All of a sudden he came running in the house with his sisters, and they were all very upset. I was standing in my livingroom worshipping Jesus when they came running in. My oldest son was in the basement, and came running upstairs when he heard all of the commotion.

My youngest son then showed me his arm, which had a big festering open wound on it. He explained that he was outside skate boarding with his sisters, when all of a sudden his skateboard flew in one direction, and he flew in the other, landing hard on the cement sidewalk, and scraped open his arm in the process.

I noticed my oldest son looking intently upon all of us and my youngest son's arm, and so I silently prayed for the Lord to use this as a way to make a believer out of him. I asked my oldest son if he would stand over next to us and watch as the Lord healed my youngest sons arm. He agreed to watch!

I laid my hands on my youngest sons arm, and asked my daughters to lay their hands on his arm as well while we prayed. I told my oldest son to move in a little closer, so that he did not miss this move of God. He came and stuck his head right in between us, curious now about what it was that he was about to see God do.

My youngest son, myself, and my other two daughters then began to pray, calling upon our God to pour down His Healing FIRE, and asked the Holy Ghost to shrink that wound and close it up. My oldest son stood watching as we prayed.

Pretty soon, his eyes got REALLY big! He was watching not only with big eyes, but also with his mouth open in astonishment at what it was that he was witnessing! As we were all praying, the FIRE of God fell upon our home, and we watched as the wound on my youngest sons arm began to shrink right before our eyes!

We began to give praise to our God, and as we continued praising and worshipping Jesus, the wound on my youngest sons arm continued shrinking, and shrinking, and shrinking until it was completely closed up!

My son took a few steps backward, and sat sat down hard on the couch that was behind him. All he could say, was "Did I just SEE what I THINK I saw? Did I just see JESUS CLOSE THAT WOUND UP right in front of MY EYES?!?" I replied, "Yes, you just witnessed the POWER of God in action! Wouldn't you like to get to know this JESUS, Whom you just saw HEAL your brothers arm?"

He replied, "Yes, I think that it's time that I get Him as my Savior!" We all rejoiced, and cried out more praises to our God! We went to where my oldest son was sitting on the couch, and with tears in my eyes, I shared the Gospel with my son, and we all prayed with him as he received the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior!

Later that evening, my oldest son went to Church with us and publicly announced Jesus as his Lord and Savior! As for my youngest son, he has absolutely no scars on his arm from this Healing, and he loves to tell anyone who will listen about how God Healed his arm to make a believer out of his brother, and most importantly, he loves to tell anyone who will listen about how...

JESUS IS KING!!!

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LETTING GO OF THE PAIN OF THE PAST

Letting go of the past is one of those things that really SOUNDS alot easier to do than it actually is to do it. I'll use myself as an example:

The majority of my life had brought me nothing but much sorrow and pain. I had been abused, abandoned, rejected, and had dealt with horrible pain stemming from this lifetime of hurt. On top of that, I had made horrible mistakes that I was still paying for, and I think that's the hardest part.

For many years, I was such a wounded vessel, one that felt that I might never recover from the hurts that I had been through. I had no idea how to 'get over it'! I felt that I did not have much hope for a 'normal' life.

One day as I was pondering on how I would ever be able to get over the pain, the Lord told me that He wanted to show me something. I looked at Him, and I saw before me, my own hand with a sliver deep with in it.

I watched as the Lord pulled the long, thin sliver from my palm, and then watched in amazement as the wound closed up and healed until it no longer hurt me. I thought of how many times I had been hurt, had slivers, paper cuts, surgeries, etc, and yes, the wound always healed and the pain went away after awhile.

Then the Lord showed me my hand again, and this time the sliver was much bigger and much deeper. When the Lord reached over to pull the deep sliver from my wound, I quickly closed my hand, making a tight fist, and in the process, driving the sliver even deeper yet and causing much more intense pain than what I would have originally had to go through, had I just let Him remove the cause of the hurt to begin with.

BUT... For one reason or another, I was bent on not letting Him in to reach it.

Then the Lord had spoken to me and said that is what I had done with the pain of my past. I had held it in my heart, placing an 'invisible fist' around it, preventing the Lord from reaching it to pull that deep sliver out. In the process, I had caused myself much more of a deeper pain by doing so.

He then told me that He had made me in His image, irregardless of what others may still think of me. He told me that it is not His will that I was still suffering from the deep rooted pains of all of the mis-justices that had occurred through out my life.

He went on to tell me that as long as I was hanging on to that pain so tightly, that it would be even harder for me to recieve the healing from my past that He so longed to give me.

I thought about how rotten I had felt all of the time because of everything that had happened in my life, everything that had scarred me, and I was so sick of it all. Then I decided to try something new for a change. All that I did was this: I just made the decision that I was sick and tired of it. I didn't want it any more. It was that simple.

I then told the Lord that I needed Him to help me open up that 'invisible fist' that I had around my heart. I wanted Him to take the pain. I wanted Him to pull that sliver out from deep within my being so that in time, it would heal and the wound would go away for good.

The Lord then showed me my heart with this 'invisible fist' around it, asked me to open my hand, and in the process expose my heart, raw and bleeding from all of the many deep wounds that it had known for my whole life.

At first I was afraid to open it up, afraid to let go, afraid I would somehow lose myself if I did so. I balked, trying to think of some excuse not to do it, and finding none. Then...slowly I opened that 'invisible fist'. And what happened wasn't scarey at all. It was pure relief.

When I opened that fist, I released alot of shame and guilt that I had also been hanging on to for most of my life, due to the many hurts that I had gone through.

When I opened that fist and saw how raw and bleeding my heart was from the wounds, I was expecting a lot more pain because of the way it looked. Instead of dealing with a lot more pain, I watched as the Lord reached into my chest and pulled a very long, thick sliver from my heart.

I watched as the last of it came out, and the wound started to close around the area where the sliver once was. I watched as my heart went from being raw and bleeding, to being restored to a healthy heart once again.

And then I heard the Lord tell me that over time, that pain - that wound, would now completely heal and there would be no more pain, much like many of the other physical wounds that I had seen healed over my life time.

I couldn't help but smile, and thank the Lord for all that He's done! It was that simple! That's all I had to do was make the decision, and have the willpower to want to let go of my past once and for all. I just had to make the decision to let go of all of the wounds, and make another decision to want to live in just now, today. Not the past. No thanks!

Emotionally, I was so relieved, that once again I found joy in my heart instead of crippling pain. Yes, it had taken awhile for the wounds to completely heal, but I take great joy in realizing that I don't have to 'hang on to the garbage' of my past any longer.

Church, I just want to encourage you to run to Jesus in times like this! I just want to encourage you to open that 'invisible fist' if you are also dealing with the pain of the past and holding on to it deep within your heart! Let it go!

The Lord did not make us to be bow down in defeat to the pains of our past! That's where Satan would like us to stay! In defeat to our pasts!

The Lord has raised us up to be more than Conquerors, through Him, to be Mighty Warriors because of Him, and to live our lives in Victorylike Him, because that is the promise that He had given us when he shed His blood on that cross all of those years ago!

Remember everything that Jesus had gone through for us! And then.....Remember this: DEFEAT comes before the GREATEST OF VICTORIES! Hang in there, and press in to the Lord...He's waiting for you with arms wide open!

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