Seek His Righteousness

The wicked of this world bear fruit of wickedness. They murder, they steal, they fornicate, they lie, they cheat, they seek revenge, they covet, they pollute their bodies, they defile their bodies, they gorge themselves over the idols of the world, they chase and glorify the movie stars, sports stars, and music stars and they do the things many contrary to and of God. The wicked does what is wicked.

If we are the children of God who are called to be HOLY and to be the Righteousness of Jesus Christ, then should we not be bearing fruit of righteousness? Should we not bear fruit of Holiness? Should we not bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit?

How can we do what the wicked does and say we are righteous? How can we continue to live in sin, disobedience, and commit spiritual adultery and say we are a Holy people unto HIM? Should the righteous not do what righteousness  suppose to do? Shouldn't it be reflected in our lives and our actions who we profess to be? We are not to bear the fruits of self righteousness but His Righteousness through Jesus Christ to testify who we are. We are HIS.

1 John 2:29 If you know (perceive and are sure) that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous [conforming to the Father's will in purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the divine will] is born (begotten) of Him [ God].

1 John 3:10 By this it is made clear who take their nature from God and are His children and who take their nature from the devil and are his children: no one who does not practice righteousness [who does not conform to God's will in purpose, thought, and action] is of God; neither is anyone who does not love his brother (his fellow believer in Christ).

Revelation 22:11 He who is unrighteous (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy (vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him do right still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still.

2 Peter 2:20-21(AMP) For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through [the full, personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition is worse [for them] than the first.21For never to have obtained a [full, personal] knowledge of the way of righteousness would have been better for them than, having obtained [such knowledge], to turn back from the holy commandment which was [verbally] delivered to them.

If we say we are His then how can we be contrary to the things of God? Can the wicked be contrary to what is wicked? How can a bad tree bear good fruit and how can a good tree bear bad fruit?

Seek the Lord with FULL Surrender. Seek His Full counsel and know He is GOD! Oh, how we should pray so we may never hear the words, "I never knew you!" For such are His people who prophesied, they cast demons out, and they have done mighty things in His Name but acted wickedly disregarding His commands. They called HIM, "Lord! Lord!"

But you see, they did not know HIM intimately even though His gifts were given to them by His Grace to intimately draw them to HIM. The gifts were to be used for His Glory and not for themselves. He is really saying to them...."I never intimately knew you!" The word "knew" is the same as Adam knew Eve as his wife. It is the knowing of a husband to his wife on a intimate level. It is a level of consummation.

May we return to the biblical Fear of God as His return draws near. In these days when so many are being led astray, Will He find faith when He returns? Ask HIM to reveal HIS Truth to you. Ask HIM to put you in agreement with you! Ask HIM to deliver you from the temptations of evil! Ask HIM to help you so you do not become corrupted, deceived, or fall away. Cling on to HIM for dear life beloved brethren for deception is so rampant today. Lord, have mercy on your people!!!!

Fire of God!

Steve Yong Kim
Feb 12, 2012

Matthew 6:33 (AMP) But seek ([a]aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things [c]taken together will be given you besides.

I want to hear God

Many of us will hear God differently. Some are more sensitive depending on their calling and which part of the body they are. If one is the ear, then he/she will hear God more clearly than the foot. But the hand is also more sensitive than the foot. Therefore, the hand may be more sensitive to feel spiritual things.

However, if the foot receives the gift of shoes, should the hand become jealous? No, how can the hand wear the shoes? If the hand received the gift of gloves, should the foot become jealous? How can the foot wear gloves?

We should as individuals never compare overselves to one another on our gifts and calling for the body is of different parts. You may or may not hear God more clearly than other people. Many think and measure hearing God's voice audibly is most important and they somehow view it a higher gift or calling. However, scripture says the weakest parts of the body are the most absolute necessity. Just because some may not hear God's voice audibly does not mean one is less important. However, we must know His Ways as written in His Word so when events occur, we can discern to be His voice.

1 Corinthians 12:22-24 (AMP) But instead, there is [absolute] necessity for the parts of the body that are considered the more weak. 23And those [parts] of the body which we consider rather ignoble are [the very parts] which we invest with additional honor, and our unseemly parts and those unsuitable for exposure are treated with seemliness (modesty and decorum), 24Which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so adjusted (mingled, harmonized, and subtly proportioned the parts of) the whole body, giving the greater honor and richer endowment to the inferior parts which lack [apparent importance],

We must train ourselves to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit as He talks to us individually. He can speak to us in our spirit, from His Word, through other believers, your spiritual leaders, even unbelievers, our circumstances, and if we are stubborn than perhaps a donkey.

Yes, God will speak to us even through unbelievers. God spoke to Joseph through Pharaoh to save His people. God gave Pharaoh the dream. Would we not interpret a dream because an heathen received it?

I hear God audibly many times. How? God speaks to me through my wife as she prophecy when the Spirit is on her. But I hear Him more in my spirit and in my circumstances. Some people do hear God audibly on their own. You are hearing God right now through me as I am teaching you.

God does not always speak audibly. He speaks to us in many different ways and He is the small voice. We must be sensitive to know He is speaking to us from all things.

What if you are not called to hear His voice audibly? I have not heard Him audibly except through my wife and only one time in my dream. What if you are the arm and you are asking God to give you a hearing aid for the arm? The foot or the arm is not going to hear God as the ear does.

Therefore, let us continue to press into HIM by getting to know HIM more through His Word, prayer, and worship, DAILY. We must store up the basic building blocks of drawing closer to HIM. Then through time and at HIS TIME, He will speak to you the way He desires.

If you want your spiritual eyes open, you must pray more. I am talking about hours per day. Now, some may have their eyes open earlier because of their sensitivity but whatever you desire of God, you must pray more and more and more.

I do not even have my spiritual eyes open in which I see angels nor demons. I have not seen heaven nor hell. I am sure those days are coming at His time. But now, He is training me and you are witnessing the fruit. I am doing what I am called to do for this moment. I continue to move forward, obeying, and accepting what He gives me and the measure He gives me for now.

When you ask for more, please understand what you are asking. More will be required of you. You will be responsible and accountable for what you have been given.

God bless
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
Feb 9, 2012

Blessings and Curses

During prayer last night, the Lord said that if you diligently listen to His Voice and follow His commandments, all will be well with you and your children. You will be blessed. However, if you disobey and sin, you will bring curses upon yourselves and your children. He said that so many of His children have brought curses upon themselves. He is calling them out of their sins. He is calling them to holiness. He is calling them to repent and separate themselves from the love of the world.

Revelation 18:4(AMP) I then heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out from her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins, neither participate in her plagues.

Each day of our life is a test. The Lord has given all He had to us. He had given Himself to die. Now, He requires us to give our lives to HIM. Many can say they love the Lord but He requires our Love to be proved through our faith following His commandments as we go through the trials and tribulations of life.

John 14:21 (AMP)The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.]

The Laws of Blessings and Curses as written in His Word and are still in effect today. Please read your Bible to know so you may not be destroyed from a lack of knowledge. Our blessings and curses are conditional to the choices we make each day. Remember, it is the Lord who gives life or takes it away. It is the Lord who gives and takes away all things.

1 Samuel 2:6-7 (AMP) The Lord slays and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.7 The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and He lifts up.

He does not Change! He is God of gods and above of things. Give Him the respect and reverence due! Know the FULL COUNSEL OF WHO HE IS. He is God!

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 IF YOU will listen diligently to the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you if you heed the voice of the Lord your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city and blessed shall you be in the field. 4Blessed shall be the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your beasts, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock.5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.6 Blessed shall you be when you come in and blessed shall you be when you go out.7The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.8The Lord shall command the blessing upon you in your storehouse and in all that you undertake. And He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.9The Lord will establish you as a people holy to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. 10 And all people of the earth shall see that you are called by the name [and in the presence of] the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.11And the Lord shall make you have a surplus of prosperity, through the fruit of your body, of your livestock, and of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.12 The Lord shall open to you His good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.13And the Lord shall make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you this day and are watchful to do them.14And you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

15 But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God, being watchful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:16Cursed shall you be in the city and cursed shall you be in the field.17Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading trough.18Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, of your land, of the increase of your cattle and the young of your sheep.19Cursed shall you be when you come in and cursed shall you be when you go out. 20The Lord shall send you curses, confusion, and rebuke in every enterprise to which you set your hand, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your doings by which you have forsaken me.21The Lord will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land into which you go to possess.22The Lord will smite you with consumption, with fever and inflammation, fiery heat, sword and drought, blasting and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.23The heavens over your head shall be brass and the earth under you shall be iron. 24The Lord shall make the rain of your land powdered soil and dust; from the heavens it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed.25The Lord shall cause you to be struck down before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them, and you shall be tossed to and fro and be a terror among all the kingdoms of the earth.26And your dead body shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.27The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and the tumors, the scurvy and the itch, from which you cannot be healed.28The Lord will smite you with madness and blindness and dismay of [mind and] heart.29And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways; and you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to save you.30You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; you shall build a house, but not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but not gather its grapes.31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away before your face and not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to help you. 32Your sons and daughters shall be given to another people, and your eyes shall look and fail with longing for them all the day; and there shall be no power in your hands to prevent it. 33A nation which you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your land and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34So that you shall be driven mad by the sights which your eyes shall see.35The Lord will smite you on the knees and on the legs with a sore boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.36The Lord shall bring you and your king whom you have set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall [be forced to] serve other gods, of wood and stone. 37And you shall become an amazement, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples to which the Lord will lead you.38You shall carry much seed out into the field and shall gather little in, for the locust shall consume it. 39You shall plant vineyards and dress them but shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.40You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory but you shall not anoint yourselves with the oil, for your olive trees shall drop their fruit. 41You shall beget sons and daughters but shall not enjoy them, for they shall go into captivity. 42All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess. 43The transient (stranger) among you shall mount up higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.44He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.45All these curses shall come upon you and shall pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.46They shall be upon you for a sign [of warning to other nations] and for a wonder, and upon your descendants forever.47Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness of [mind and] heart [in gratitude] for the abundance of all [with which He had blessed you], 48Therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in want of all things; and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He has destroyed you.49The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you shall not understand,50A nation of unyielding countenance who will not regard the person of the old or show favor to the young, 51And shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, who also shall not leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your cattle or the young of your sheep until they have caused you to perish.52They shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.53And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the [pressing] misery with which your enemies shall distress you. 54The man who is most tender among you and extremely particular and well-bred, his eye shall be cruel and grudging of food toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward those of his children still remaining, 55So that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children which he is eating, because he has nothing left to him in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you in all your towns. 56The most tender and daintily bred woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground because she is so dainty and kind, will grudge to the husband of her bosom, to her son and to her daughter57Her afterbirth that comes out from her body and the children whom she shall bear. For she will eat them secretly for want of anything else in the siege and distress with which your enemies shall distress you in your towns.58If you will not be watchful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may [reverently] fear this glorious and fearful name [and presence]--THE LORD YOUR GOD--59Then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary strokes and blows, great plagues of long continuance, and grievous sicknesses of long duration.60Moreover, He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.61Also every sickness and every affliction which is not written in this Book of the Law the Lord will bring upon you until you are destroyed. 62And you shall be [a]left few in number, whereas you had been as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.63And as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice to bring ruin upon you and to destroy you; and you shall be [b]plucked from the land into which you go to possess.64And the Lord shall scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other; and there you shall [be forced to] serve other gods, of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65And among these nations you shall find no ease and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot; but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes [from disappointment of hope], fainting of mind, and languishing of spirit. 66Your life shall hang in doubt before you; day and night you shall be worried, and have no assurance of your life. 67In the morning you shall say, Would that it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would that it were morning!--because of the anxiety and dread of your [minds and] hearts and the sights which you shall see with your [own] eyes. 68And the Lord shall [c]bring you into Egypt again with ships by the way about which I said to you, You shall never see it again. And there you shall be sold to your enemies as bondmen and bondwomen, but no man shall buy you.

May you not only know the Full Everlasting Love of God but may you also possess the biblical Fear of HIM.

Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
Feb 08, 2012

Tattoo or not to tattoo?

Leviticus 19:28  (AMP) "You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print or tattoo any marks upon you; I am the Lord."

How is it that His people today look and do the things of the world so much? Why do so many of us follow the new trend or fashion of the day? How does the world even know we are Christians? Because of our lip service and because we can quote a few verses? How are we a separated people? Consecrate yourselves unto the Lord!! If you tattoo scripture verses, it still does not give you the right to mark what you do not own. Your body is not yours but the Lord's. Your body is His Temple where He dwells. How would you like it if someone comes to spray paint your homes? What if such a person spray paints your home with scripture verses in their own manner, would you still approve?

If you have previously tattoo yourselves, you must still repent of those past actions if you have not done so. If we see a Christian with many tattoo we should not judge them for that may be from the old person. The point of this note is to tell the brethren, do not consider getting any future tattoos because this is what the world glorifies. It does not glorify God.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (AMP) Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own,20 You were bought with a price [purchased with a [a]preciousness and paid for, [b]made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 (AMP) For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,4That each one of you should know how to [a]possess (control, manage) his own [b]body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor, 5Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will, 6 That no man transgress and overreach his brother and defraud him in this matter or defraud his brother in business. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we have already warned you solemnly and [c]told you plainly.7For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].8Therefore whoever disregards (sets aside and rejects this) disregards not man but God, Whose [very] Spirit [Whom] He gives to you is holy (chaste, pure).

1 Corinthians 3:17 (AMP) If ANYONE [a]does hurt to God's temple or corrupts it [[b]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [c]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[d]the believing church and its individual believers] are.

This word "anyone" includes yourself. Separate yourselves from the things of the world that glorifies the world.

Fire of God!

Betrayed!

As a pastor, elder, deacon, leader, or a lay believer, if you knew someone is betraying you or about to betray you, how would you look or treat such a person? Would you treat them differently? Would your love for them change? Would you stop feeding them physically and spiritually? Would you isolate them? Would you shame them? Would you remove them from your surroundings?

When situations presents themselves, we must always look at each situation with a panoramic view. We in the flesh have a tendency to always look at another for the fault. However, there is a lesson, test, or even deliverance for someone or all the parties within the experience. We must always look and proceed with the heart and eyes of God.

When Job was presented with an extreme trial, we tend to focus on the trials such as Job experienced and what he had lost. However, whether you believe it was a test or discipline, the situation was more than for Job himself. The situation was to also save his three friends who did not act like true brothers/friends. From the point of his friends, we must realize, we, ourselves, can become like Job's friends pointing out fault and putting salt on people's wounds. However, if we are in the mist of a trial or even a discipline as Job faced, if we hold our ground (heart/lips) trusting God even though we may not fully understand the situation, souls can be saved. God is our vindicator and there is no need to defend ourselves if we are in the Truth.

The situation with Job was an opportunity to root out what was hidden in the hearts of Job's three friends. They did not properly understand or know the spiritual significance of Job's situation. They began to work for the enemy and accuse Job. The three were now speaking and judging the work of God. Everything they were saying were to their own wisdom and understanding. It must have been a torment for Job to hear his friends speak as they did. But Job still held his ground and and did not speak against God but loathed his own life.

If such a situation did not arise, the ugliness that were in the hearts of Job's three friends may not have surfaced. God's ways are higher in which we may not understand all that is happening to us. But we must be still and know He is God and to trust HIM to the end.

Job 42:7 (AMP) After the Lord had spoken the previous words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.

At the end, this situation was an opportunity for Job to INTERCEDE on behalf of his three friends for their lives.

Job 42:8-10 (AMP) Now therefore take seven bullocks and seven rams and go to My servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and My servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept [his prayer] that I deal not with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of Me the thing that is right, as My servant Job has.9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; and the Lord accepted [Job's prayer].10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job and restored his fortunes, when he prayed for his friends; also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

When we have the heart of God and when we pray for our enemies or those who may betray us and/or have betrayed us, it is through forgiving if forgiving is required and praying for them that we are restored and prayers are answered. When we have the heart of God, we will receive twice as much.

Judas Iscariot was one of the twelve apostles. The Lord granted him spiritual gifts to cast demons out with signs and wonders following. Judas was also the money holder for the group. Jesus knew Judas was going to betray HIM. But yet, Jesus still broke bread and washed his feet. Jesus loved him to the end. Jesus did not have any bias feelings or suspicions against him but treated him equally and with the same love as the others even with His foreknowledge.

John 13:10-15 (AMP) Jesus said to him, Anyone who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is clean all over. And you [My disciples] are clean, but not all of you.11 For He knew who was going to betray Him; that was the reason He said, Not all of you are clean. 12So when He had finished washing their feet and had put on His garments and had sat down again, He said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you?13You call Me the Teacher (Master) and the Lord, and you are right in doing so, for that is what I am.14If I then, your Lord and Teacher (Master), have washed your feet, you ought [it is your duty, you are under obligation, you owe it] to wash one another's feet.15For I have given you this as an example, so that you should do [in your turn] what I have done to you.

This is the heart we must possess. We must possess the heart of God. We must stop looking at the sins and shortcomings of people but love them as the Lord loves YOU even with your shortcomings. And even if we knew someone is or going to betray us, would we still lay down our lives for them if it is required without complaining and grumbling?

The Lord has set the example. He has set the bar where your love must be. You must not only love your friends and family but even those who may betray you.  Love endures to the end.

 God bless brethren
Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim

Choosing to continue in Faith

James 2:24 (AMP) You see that a man is justified (pronounced righteous before God) through what he does and not alone through faith [through works of obedience as well as by what he believes]. 

Salvation is a two edged sword, Grace/faith and works of obedience. Ep 2:8-9 says we are saved by grace and not of your works. Ephesians is speaking of the works of one's self righteousness. James is speaking the works of obedience.

We may not be perfect when He finds us but it does not mean we should not try to strive for perfection. We strive for perfection or holiness as we obey His Word/commandments and He is our righteousness. As we obey, He is the one who gives us the grace and ability to obey.

And when we do stumble, we do have a mediator as we continue to confess our sins. When we fall, we shake the dust and continue to move forward not looking back.

James 2:17-18 (AMP) So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions of obedience to back it up), by itself is destitute of power (inoperative, dead).18But someone will say [to you then], You [say you] have faith, and I have [good] works. Now you show me your [alleged] faith apart from any [good] works [if you can], and I by [good] works [of obedience] will show you my faith.

Faith is not merely a state of mind or concept. Faith is living action in one's life bearing good fruits of obedience in holiness evident of what we truly believe.

James 2:22You see that [his] faith was cooperating with his works, and [his] faith was completed and reached its supreme expression [when he implemented it] by [good] works.

As verse 22 states, our faith is completed and reaches it supreme expression by good works of obedience. Faith is not confessing Jesus as Savior and then continuing in the old life.  We must understand what it means to be REBORN.

For example, if God has called someone to missions and if that person decides to do it at their own time when their kids are grown up or after their careers then this is not works of obedience but works of self righteousness. Works of obedience goes when God tells you to go. But if the person flatly rejects the calling, that person is rejecting God and will eventually be deluded into a form of religion. We must make the choice in our hearts to be willing to go when He tells us to go as any good soldier and to go anywhere we are called to go.

I hear so many people saying people need faith or they have faith but many of them do not do what they know they need to do. If they do not do what they need to do as their spirit calls them to do then how are they really continuing in faith?

Matthew 23:3 (AMP) So observe and practice all they tell you; but do not do what they do, for they preach, but do not practice.

Most Christians know what is right deep in their spirits but complying to the commandments of God written in their hearts seems to be an obstacle to many. Remember, it is a daily choice whether you really exercise your faith walking on the narrow path or walking on the wide road on the path of deluding yourselves.

May you all continue in your faith with your eyes on Jesus Christ. I SPEAK ENDURING FAITH OVER YOUR LIVES. God Bless

Fire of God
Feb 6 2012

Enduring Love dies to oneself

Religion presents the gospel as some easy method or process to enter the Kingdom of God. It is not just a mere confessing of one's lips but one MUST BELIEVE with the heart. Believing is not just a mere acknowledgment that God exist and what He did at the cross. Believing is making the choice to die to oneself for the Will of the Father. Once someone accepts the Lord, the process of death to oneself just begins to complete eternal life. Yes, we are saved but we are also being saved. Our whole life will be a test. Everyday is a test. It is a test to choose each day whether one will die to self and choose the Will of the Father or flap around like a fish out of water and choose one's own will/flesh.

When the Word of God enters our hearts, it should pierce like a sword with pain as we experience pain from the circumcision process.When the Sword of the Word pierces our hearts, it is for the circumcision of your hearts. Is circumcision not painful? The death of oneself/flesh is not only a part of our walk but it can be at first very painful. But as we die more to ourselves, we will actually become more spiritual and will will experience more of the real life of Christ as HE evermore manifested in us. We must decrease and He must increase. But what do people see in us? Do they see who we profess to believe or do they continue to see the old self?

John 12:24-26 (AMP) I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest. 25 Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. [Whoever has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth, but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever.] 26 If anyone serves Me, he must continue to follow Me [[a]to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying] and wherever I am, there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

We sing songs such as "Have your way with us, Lord!" But when the fire gets hot, we are looking for the exist door. We feel alone. Why? Because as it says in verse 24, unless we die to ourselves, we will feel and be alone. If you feel alone, then know your flesh is still much alive and your circumstances is presented to you as an opportunity to die to yourselves.

For some of you, many uncomfortable things may be happening around your lives. You may be struggling with your husbands, wives, children, friends, work, finances, career, and/or other believers. We ask why? Why are we in such situations? We want to run! We want to run to a place of comfort with no pain. We do not want to deal with the issues of other people and we only want to love difficult people from a far. Why are we screaming in pain? It is because we are still in the "me" and "I" stages. It is your flesh flapping like a fish out of water crying out for help. It is your flesh that is screaming to live when God is requiring your flesh to DIE!! In many cases, when we feel trapped we may ask the Lord in our frustration to just kill us now. Have many of us not experienced this? But HE is actually granting your request because you must die in the flesh to eventually go home to heaven.

God has allowed such circumstances in your lives to root out the flesh and the hidden sins in one's heart. But the question remains, will we run or will we die to ourselves. Did Jesus run? Someone can give me all the excuses he/she desires but if you say YOU BELIEVE then follow the example of OUR LORD! He did not complain. He did not say a word. He bleed sweat fighting His flesh to go do the Father's will and die so you and your families may find life!

We scream out, "WHY!" But do you NOT understand? When Jesus was broken, bruised, and put to death, it was the WILL OF THE FATHER so you may all call upon His Name and LIVE!!

Isaiah 53:10 (AMP)Yet it was the will of the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief and made Him sick. When You and He make His life an offering for sin [and He has risen from the dead, in time to come], He shall see His [spiritual] offspring, He shall prolong His days, and the will and pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
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To believe is to live the life of our Lord, Jesus Christ. We may be in a difficult circumstance because it may be the will of the Lord to help us die to ourselves. If we do not stay in the fire sacrificing ourselves, then how can we say we are loving those God has put around us? How will they find salvation when they see God's children who profess they love the Lord and that they are a people willing to die for HIM but yet runs away from difficult circumstances? Their blood will be on our hands.

 Luke 14:27(AMP) Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.

Are we then but a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal? We may be able to speak in tongues, we may be able to cast demons out, and we can have signs and wonders following but if we do not finish the process of having our own flesh being crucified then have we completed our own death process of ourselves to find life? Scripture says "LOVE ENDURES LONG!!" Where is our endurance?

1 Corinthians 13:1-4 (AMP) IF I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such [a]as is inspired by God's love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers ([b]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody). 3Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or [c] in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing. 4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

Being crucified with Christ is not a theory or a state of mind. It is action and the fruit we bear is evident of what we say we BELIEVE! The Narrow road is not an easy path. Paul said to learn from our forefathers. Learn from those who have made mistakes. Do not continue to repeat the mistakes of some our forefathers! Entering the Kingdom of God is not a easy process as religion has made out to be. Force yourselves to stay in the fire if need be.


Luke 13:23-24 (AMP) And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them, 24Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it], for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Hebrews 3:8-12 (AMP) Do not harden your hearts, as [happened] in the rebellion [of Israel] and their provocation and [a]embitterment [of Me] in the day of testing in the wilderness,9Where your fathers tried [My patience] and tested [My forbearance] and found I stood their test, and they saw My works for forty years.10And so I was provoked (displeased and sorely grieved) with that generation, and said, They always err and are led astray in their hearts, and they have not perceived or recognized My ways and become progressively better and more experimentally and intimately acquainted with them.11Accordingly, I swore in My wrath and indignation, They shall not enter into My rest.12[Therefore beware] brethren, take care, lest there be in any one of you a wicked, unbelieving heart [which refuses to cleave to, trust in, and rely on Him], leading you to turn away and desert or stand aloof from the living God.

Grace is there for us to get things right with God. Grace is not there so we can continue to make choices of rebellion or disobedience. Your choices have eternal consequences. Please choose LIFE by sacrificing and dying to yourselves so others around you may live. Let the the grain of wheat/kernel fall and die so a plentiful harvest may be reaped. 

Truly Believe so your whole household may be SAVED!!!

Acts 16:31(AMP) And they answered, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ [[a]give yourself up to Him, [b] take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping] and you will be saved, [and this applies both to] you and your household as well.

Fire of God
Steve Yong Kim
February 04, 2012