Baptism of fire is necessary to prepare saints that’ll sit with Him on his father’s throne, only fire dwells with fire.
Baptism of fire is the preparation of saints for the battle ahead, God tried us and confirmed if we are truly on His side, there are many wolves among the sheep and goats hiding with the sheep, it’s only fire that can separate and differentiate where each person belongs.
This baptism is necessary for the elects who want to do the works of God without dissimulation it exposed the motives of working in his vineyard.
Israelites passed through wilderness experience after the baptism in the Red Sea, and only two of them were able to enter the promised land.
It revealed the motives and the intent of coming to church, many attend fellowship to distract the saints on their journey while some attend to pervert the message of holiness and introduce the doctrine of Jezebel or that of Balaam, it’s the fire of God that will fish them out and disgrace them.
Not all that glitters is gold, there are stones and woods, and there is dross pretending to be gold, it’s this fire that will bring the correction.
Repentance is what is needed from every creature, this shows the perfection of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, and that is why this baptism is necessary to bring out genuine repentance.
John the Baptist was telling the scribes who came for baptism that they should bring forth the fruit means for repentance, even though they may come from the lineage of serpent and vipers, the blood of Christ was also shed for their deliverance, only for them to repent and be engrafted into the family of God.
Most Israelites perished in the wilderness even though they were baptized with the water of the Red Sea, but they couldn’t withstand the baptism of fire carried out on them by God in the wilderness, only two of them were able to scale through to the promised land.
God passed His children through fire for training, and almost every servant of God with great assignments passed through this in the Bible, fire set them aside for great missions to fulfil the purpose for which they were created.
Baptism of fire removed the veil of the flesh covering everyone from Adam, it’s this flesh that covered each person’s true identity, when the fire descended the true image will manifest and show if you’re on the lord’s side or not.
It’s not all that are called Christians who are truly a believer, those who joined cultism to escape the fire of God already chose where they belong, it’s this fire that exposed their true nature, they were dragged away by the hidden lust of their heart.
It’s not everyone that enters the fire that’ll come out the same, it’s either to make or mar, to be more aggressive or more broken, God only used broken vessels.
There was this lady who went to his father to complain about all that she was going through in her husband’s house.
The wise man asked her to bring three elements for him to experiment.
Lipton’s tea bag, garden eggs and chicken eggs, he told her to put each one of them inside pot and place it on the stove with water.
After a while, the father asked her to bring it out and see the results.
The lady said that the Lipton tea had changed colour, while the garden eggs became softer and the eggs became hardened after all of them experienced a fire.
The father now told her that this is the situation of every creature after they pass through the fire, it may change the kind of person you really are, and this is your true nature just like Lipton tea.
It may make you softer like garden eggs and bring your real importance.
Or it may harden you more just like chicken eggs and expose your true nature for the world to see.
Pastors who aligned with satan because of trials and persecutions had it at the back of their minds from the beginning, it’s the fire that exposed them and dragged them to where they belonged.
Most women who go into adultery because of their spouse’s unfaithfulness and betrayal do it because that is what they’ve been nursing since the beginning of that relationship, it’s the man’s betrayal that exposes what they truly are.
A greedy man will show covetous nature when tested, this is what exposes the hidden lust of the heart to show who you truly are.
If a child of God passes through the fire, the fire won’t burn him, it will only energize him for greater assignments in life.
God won’t tell you the time of your visitation, most problems we encounter in this race are for testing and trials, wait till God achieve His purpose in you, no amount of prayers can put it off, it’s when the image of God is formed in you and bring you to the limelight.
Prayer: Father Lord, deliver me from evil and keep me away from temptation, don’t let my enemy rejoice over me, in Jesus name amen
