Revival Fire
Acts 2:1-4
1 And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all assembled together in one place,
2 When suddenly there came a sound from heaven like the rushing of a violent tempest blast, and it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.
3 And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.
4 And they were all filled (diffused throughout their souls) with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other (different, foreign) languages (tongues), as the Spirit kept giving them clear and loud expression [in each tongue in appropriate words].
• a great violent and forcible gust of life … it was as if those waiting had been dead and lifeless, in need of CPR and God himself blew a great puff of life into their inner most being, and then lit their outer life with fire.
• It was as if they were for the first time full of intense feelings and emotions, zeal and vigor.
• They were excited, ignited, enthusiastic and ablaze with the life of God; they were angry at sin and they were ready to be prepared, propelled, discharged and launched into the fields by God.
• This fire had burned on the inside, sat on the outside and a hot coal slide across their mouth.
• Their tongue as well as their inside and outside had been purged. So they might shine brightly and speak correctly.
That is what the Holy Fire of God will do!
It will purge us and prepare us for revival!
Isaiah 1:24-25
24 Therefore says the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will appease Myself on My adversaries and avenge Myself on My enemies.
25 And I will bring My hand again upon you and thoroughly purge away your dross [as with lye] and take away all your tin or alloy.
Isaiah 6:7
And he laid it upon my mouth (speaking of a hot coal of fire), and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
Oh, how we need a new dose of the Holy Ghost and the Hand of God coming down over the church to purge out the dross and bring forth righteousness through the plead blood of Jesus.
