Sonlight Devotional

Scripture reading: Acts 2:1-3

The Tabernacle of Moses was the first temple that God created, and everything in it was set in order (Refs. Exodus 25:40, Hebrews 8:5). If you want to see what God wants you to be, look in the Tabernacle of Moses. You will see that every spoon, and even the stoker that stoked the fire, had to be done exactly as God wanted it done. He then placed a man to watch over it.

When Moses dedicated the Tabernacle before God, God sent down fire from heaven and this fire of God lighted it (Ref. Leviticus 9:23-24). This signifies that you must not have any other fire in the church but God’s fire only. Do you understand that? God’s fire was lighted, and it burned for 490 years. Then came Solomon, and when he built the temple and called upon God, God sent the fire again. When Jesus came, He said to the brethren in Acts 1:4-5, “Tarry in Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high.” The church is the third and the last temple that is being built, and for the third time the fire came down again:

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost…” (Acts 2:1-3)

So then, the fire that we have had now for 2,000 years must be the fire of the Holy Ghost. It must be God’s fire (Refs. Leviticus 6:13, 10:1-2). Therefore, anyone who gets up in God’s house and talks without having that fire from God is making a breach upon God and upon His business. All we say must be God!

To my great distress, I know that there are other spirits ministering to us. Many of us go and say that God is saying this and God is saying that. But it is a fearful thing to say when God did not say it. You have to remember that your speaking the Word of God depends upon your sanctification and your dedication before God.

I am speaking to you not from study, not from plan, and not from a script. I am speaking rather from the ministration of God to my soul that has come to me over the years and over the impression that God has upon me at this time that, “This is what I want you to talk about.” I do not know what I am going to say, but I know that I am an instrument of God and that God flows through me. I know that God will give me what to say, so I come up like a person offering himself as a sacrifice and allow God to move in me.

If I have a block in me that is blocking God, then this system fails. When it fails, either man or the devil comes and feeds in something else and ministers it to you—and the church goes off line. I do not know if you hear me. The church will go off line if the ministry is not spiritual.

Let us therefore pray for one another so that the ministration of God will be in our lives and our midst.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, December 2002)

Thought for today: Your speaking the Word of God depends upon your sanctification and your dedication before God.