Fire Comes Before Rain: We Need Both In Out Lives!

Global warming!!! Well, many agued that the time is approaching - while those who professed to be against God confessed that Jesus' return is at hand. All around you there is too much immorality, filthy deeds; perverted thoughts seem to be the ONLY ground where your feet are guaranteed to land. Parties are taking place time and again, celebrations for the souls that are being lost, characters that are being destroyed, and bodies that are being used to practice all forms of evil. From all this, people get the message that sooner or later things are coming to an end, they think that there will be no solution because even the church that was known as the only place that can bring solution seem to have lost its way. NO NO NO NO NO! Let me tell you something that you might not have heard as yet! It is not yet over. The creation might be waiting in groaning as if something will not come up but I believe the opposite. All forms of evil can overshadow the little good deeds and you think its over for human kind but I believe the opposite. When the spirit of God is hovering over a shapeless situation things become chaotic at that moment (Genesis 1 vs 2, 1 Kings 17 vs 7). Yes, the earth will dry up and the fire will erupt everywhere just as it is the case with volcanoes. But I want to tell you that we do need that fire, we do need that heat before we get rain. Yes, just as evaporation is needed to form clouds, gold needs to go via the fire for purity, the same goes for us. For we need to be presented pure in front of God. God does not show himself in an environment where people still think they have alternatives. He is a God who needs his people to totally depend on him, on him alone. He waits patiently for you to exhaust all other resources you think can help you. But I know one thing surely that when resources runs out, the option is to return to the supplier of the resources, and let me tell you this; the supplier is God, the one and everlasting God. When the waters ran out for Israelites in the desert he was there to provide, when diseases, poisonous snakes, evil spirits attacked them, he was there to be their saviour. Yes, just as we do, they did think that they can make it without God; they thought they can get away without any need of the one who created them but guess what? No ways, there is no way you can live without the sources of life; there is no way you can continue using resources without coming in contact with the resource supplier. Let me conclude this by saying that after the tree has been cut down, there is still hope that it will sprout and bring fort little branches which will produce some fruit. It is not over yet for God still have remnants. There are some people who are still in the desert being prepared by God. When people are busy with self indulgence there are people who do not have something eat in the desert, there are people who are not having something to drink in the desert. While people are financially rich and using their finances as if there is no tomorrow, there are those who are kept far from partaking in those finances because it is not yet the time. But God is still training Elijah’s of today in the desert. There are people who are still sidelined; they are not partaking in any of the developmental programmes. They are sidelined with hopes that they will eventually die because they talk too much. They are sidelined because they dream big enough and starting to imagine a world full of possibilities for all, a world where everyone is free, a world where children will not fear for their lives a world where it is safe to proclaim the word of God and not get killed. They are blacklisted because they express their love for God by reaching those close to their proximity. Let me tell you that in those dark places that they are kept at, the hair are growing. Just exactly in those shacks, God is training them for the service; right there in those shady clothes God is empowering them, because this word does not need someone who has too much. To be able to do the will of God you need to have given up on some of those very same things you deemed important and have HIM all. People they will call you names but do not despair, the same happened to Elijah when the time of the Lord was at hand (1 Kings 18 vs 17). Don't give up its yet time to arise and shine, yes people will not want to listen from you wait a minute a time is yet to come where they will only want to hear the words from your mouths (1 Kings 18 vs 21). Wait a minute for the time will come and when it comes, it will be clear which God is to be worshiped (1 Kings 18 vs 24). Yes it will not be easy, you will have to wait for the right time (1 Kings 18 vs 27; 36), the right time is coming where they will be option less. They will have tried it all but nothing will come to their rescue. When your time comes you will have to do things according to the best way God knows how. Meaning that, you will be thought listening from the voice of your shepherd because without proper instructions it will be impossible to govern the world God's way (1 Kings 18 vs 30-35). Allow then to be thought how to bend, how to endure fire because when God wants to cease the wisdom of the world he will consume it with his fire. It would have been foolishness according to the world to use the water you suppose to drink for building an alter. That is what you will need to be aware of, there won't be resources and you will need to use the little and the last that you have. Obey the command for you will know better that God does have something for you. The secrete there, is that if the water was not consumed by the fire there would not be an evaporation (1 Kings 18 vs 38). People are not familiar with leaders who put people first, leaders who lead with examples, leaders who are not corrupted in mind and action. So you will be the first one and that is the time where people will start going down on their knees and confess that He, indeed is God. You will be different from other people, don't be ashamed, don't compromise. People will not think of you as the person who will last, but guess what, you will tell them things they never imagined (1 Kings 18 vs 41). When you tell them of the big rain that is coming they will think that you are mad. But I know one thing, the voice of truth will be coming out of your mouth. It will be difficult for you to keep it in because it will be a consuming fire, so you keep it will consume you. For some time it will seem at if nothing is happening, remember, if you did Biology, evaporation does not produce rain immediately, so you will need to be patient (1 Kings 18 vs 43). That is what will make you distinct from other people who have never been in desert, they do not want to wait on God. They give up too easily, they are easily angered and they want to be praised. But let me tell you something, don't quit for something is coming up. When they start gossiping about you that "he said this was going to happen" do not hide yourself in shame or something is yet coming up (1 Kings 18 vs 44). I did say that fire comes before the rain but we do need both. When that time comes, when God is sending his fire down, do not think it is all that you have to do. You also do not have to be happy when people saying you are on fire and never move to a position of rain because fire alone is dangerous for you. You also need the rain of God; you do needs blessings to rain in your life. I can see the fire and the rain of God raining upon every young person from rural areas to urban areas. I can see matured leaders rising up like a dust of the earth; I can see the new earth recovering from all forms of evil, from all forms of filthiness, from the bondages of corruption. I can see nations shaking off the chains of lower self-esteem, self condemnation, and self pity. I can see homes where children will grow up freely with both their parents, a world where the nature will enjoy being governed by human kind just as God willed. I am dreaming of hymns and songs that will break from all directions in worship of our God, when His splendour, majesty, glory and anointing will engulf the human race. I am convinced, I am persuaded and believing beyond doubt that it is still possible and not yet over (Isaiah 11 vs 6-9). Praise God! The time is soon coming when all creation will rest in peace once again, and the creatures of the earth will no longer destroy each other or fear each other. Yes, this may sound like a distant utopia, but we know by the Word of God that it will come to pass, as surely as God spoke this world into existence and as surely as every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. God's ultimate plan is to redeem His creation and restore it back to the way it was in the Garden of Eden. You are that person in the desert, allow God to shape you; it might be through what you going through now but allow Him to shape you, to speak shape and life to you. The inspiration to write this came from the preaching of Dr Amanda Silangwe. May God bless her greatly and increase her territories for more provision.