Emma Stark: Welcoming the God who Answers by Fire (1 Kings 18:24)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 11/03/2021

Emma Stark: Welcoming the God who Answers by Fire (1 Kings 18:24)
Emma Stark speaks with Peter & Trisha Roselle on June 4, 2020. 1 Kings 18:24 says, “You call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

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Psalm 97:3
“A fire goes before Him and burns up His enemies round about.”

1 Kings 18:24
“You call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; 
and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

Yes, I think that God, we read that verse, you know, a fire goes before him, don't we? A fire goes before him and burns up all his enemies. And of course we sing a song that has those lyrics in it too, but it's a scriptural quote. 

I think, we got used to the preceding fire, that came before God, that gave us a little bit of a warmth, and a little bit of a glow, and a little bit of a Holy Spirit goosebumps, and a little bit of a hair on the back of your neck, and a little bit of a feel-good, but actually, we never welcomed the God who follows his preceding fire. 

And we never let the weight of the fullness of all that he is totally bring a Holy Ghost glory mess in the midst of us. We were so structured, you know, the three of us itinerate, we travel the world, it's a real joy to do this. And if I'm honest with you, you and I know that we can go to nearly any church in the world and we can predict exactly what's going to happen next in any service. 

The difference between the more traditional and the more charismatic church is, the traditional church is wrote it in an order of service. And so you have this little window where the spirit is allowed to move or the preceding fire is allowed to burn in and between the end of the worship and the beginning of the preaching that is quite timed and so the Holy Spirit jolly well better, hurry himself up and do this nice little waft, you know, and a little bit of a over the top of us then we feel good, you know, and then we could get on with the preaching. And we all know how it goes. 

It's so far away, from anything we read in scripture of the Holy Spirit who we read in Genesis, so this gets me, Genesis one. Genesis one, we're told that the Holy Spirit shakes and hovers that Hebrew word, rachaph, violent shaking. You know, it's the first thing we learned about him that he violently shakes. How did we strip that away from him? Surely we've got to the first two verses of the book to know that there is a violent shaking that is part of the parcel.

Peter
I can tell you part of the problem for me when I first became a Christian about that was that I came out of a very chaotic lifestyle. I was doing drugs and I felt very scrambled, it was very appealing to me that the word gave me structure and it was a little bit mentally lazy, I think, to start checking the box.

So that I know the way it's supposed to go and actually I needed a little bit of that because my life was so out of control. And then I realized that what we're talking about is a little bit more work. When you think that way, you have to keep hearing from God on a regular basis instead of just checking the box. 

Trisha
The church at large has become very complacent.

1 Kings 18:21 (NKJV)
Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you faltar between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.”

1 Kings 18:21
And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.

He said, come let's repair the altar, repair the altar of intimacy. I really believe that this COVID-19 shaking has really rattled us. It's a divine pause, it's a divine reset to get us to the place where we can say, “Where are we? What is our heart saying? Who do we believe? Do we believe God? Is there unbelief in our hearts?”

The Lord is saying, “Repair, Rapha, let me Rapha your heart. Let me heal your heart to get you out of that place of complacency or unbelief or doubt or stagnancy. And so the Lord said, “I love you too much to let you stay there.”

I want the shaking to go on, it's uncomfortable. It's easy to stay with what we're familiar with and God is just shaking and rattling and rolling, he's shaking us all out of our junk, all of us. And I said, go for it, Lord, because I don't want to have an “I know more than Jesus” kind of a mentality. 

Proverbs 18:2 “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”