Amazing Love and Grace

Luke 15:11-22 11 To illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story: “A man had two sons. 12 The younger son told his father, ‘I want my share of your estate now before you die.’ So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.13 “A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. 14 About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. 15 He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. 16 The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.17 “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, 19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’20 “So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him. 21 His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I am no longer worthy of being called your son.’22 “But his father said to the servants, ‘Quick! Bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him. Get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet.

In this story, the Father is representing Father God and the prodigal or lost son represents you and I. The nature of the human flesh is to move away from Father God and spend our time and resources in the world. The human flesh does not want to go to church. It does not want to pray. It does not want to read the Word and it does not want to worship. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The human flesh wants to have the most fun and party it up before it decides to serve God. The human flesh puts God last.

This story illustrates God's amazing Grace. If we only knew the depth of His Grace and if we could truly understand the breath, width, height, and depth of His Love, we would know ourselves as true sinners who have fallen so short of His Glory and we would fall in love with HIM. But because of our limited mind and capacity, our flesh continues to resist the Holy Spirit's Love. But in order to grasp this amazing Grace and Love, we must come to brokenness and become nothing.

The flesh is always trying to live and survive. However, in order to find resurrected live and find life abundance, we must die to ourselves. We must put all the nature of the flesh to death. We must be crucified with Christ. We must die to anger, hate, impatience, lack of love, hurt, abuse, rejection, self preservation, lust, coveting, drunkenness, marriage to the world, and etc. For such things will NOT inherit the Kingdom of God. This is not a theory or theology but a practice or exercise unto righteousness. We must draw on HIS Grace to walk in HIS righteousness.

How is this amazing Grace? The prodigal son repented in verse 18 stated how he had sinned against heaven and father. But the son did not come back because he knew he was a sinner. The son had come back because he was hungry. His flesh was hungry and he had come for the survival of his flesh. Many people come to find Jesus not because HE is God. They come to find him because their lives may be in chaos, distress, or bottomed out. Would such people have found Jesus if their outcome was the opposite? But yet, God does not reject us but HE uses even such situations to welcome us. In verse 20, Father saw him coming and filled with love and compassion ran to his son. Did we really run to HIM? No, HE ran to us.

The son did not come seeking to restore his relationship with his father but he had come because he was hungry. But yet, father saw and ran to him first. Father embraced him and kissed him. Our God had found you and I. You did not find HIM. HE had embraced and kissed you and I first. Father put His finest robe, His ring, and His sandals on our feet and we had not deserved any of it. We think we had found HIM. We had come for the wrong reasons. But HIS Love and Grace is so amazing. HE Loves us because we are HIS creation and HIS image.

But now that the son has returned, the son must do what the Father wills. The past and the things of the world must be left behind. We must not look behind anymore. Our life is now God. HE is our First Love. Our life should be consumed with HIM.

Sadly, today, the prodigal son is looking back to the world. Our churches are spending less time with HIM. We are worshiping HIM less. We are praying less. We are reading less. Our services are but crumbs to HIM. We are falling away and forsaking HIM again. We uses excuses saying that was then but this is now. We are too busy with the world once again and living loosely.

Does God send the famine because HE wants to starve us? We must understand HIS Love and we will understand HIS judgments. HE must send the famine once more so that HIS people may return to HIM. The famine will bring brokenness to a stubborn people.

May you all come to know this Amazing LOVE.

Mark 9:49-50 (AMP) For everyone shall be salted (tested) with fire. 50 Salt is good (beneficial), but if salt has lost its saltness, how will you restore [the saltness to] it? Have salt within yourselves, and be at peace and live in harmony with one another.

Fire of God Church
An International Holy Fire Ministry
Pastor Steve Yong Kim
Fremont, California USA

You must become NOTHING and HE must become EVERYTHING!

It is not about what great things you think you can do for God for that would be prideful and still you would be full of yourself. It is about what great things God can do through you as you die to yourselves, submit, obey, and become nothing!

Can the created being tell the creator what he/she will accomplish or do for the potter? Does the created being own his/her talents? Does the created being own his/her spiritual gifts? Your ability to discern and calculate 2+2 = 4 is by Grace and from HIM. Therefore, what is there to glorify in yourselves? Even to know salvation and Jesus Christ is by Grace for scripture says unless the Father draws you, you cannot be drawn to HIM. You did not find HIM, HE FOUND YOU!!!

Too many of God's people out there are really working for themselves and for their own glory using God's name. They think just because a calling or Word has being spoken over them and since they have some knowledge, and some gifts, they think they can now conquer the world with the gospel. Rather than waiting for God, they have left God and went ahead. As a result, many Ishmael ministries have been birthed by the flesh. Observe the fruit of people. Observe the fruit of their ministries. Perhaps, God is not even there and HE had left a long time and now judgment is the end result. Do we even know the judgments of God to know if we need to repent? In the OT and God does not change by the way, HE had brought the sword (war), pestilence, and famine. You must discern your circumstances as HE is trying to speak to us since many cannot hear HIM in their hearts because it had hardened.

It is not about your enthusiasm. It is not about your emotions. It is not about how much you want to do God's Will. All about you must DIE to yourself! This "I, me, and myself" must die to yourselves! HE requires FULL surrender. Do you know what this means, full surrender? It means that your will has been subjected to HIS Will and Time. You are to have become nothing! Unless we become nothing, HE cannot become everything in us. But so many of us resist the Holy Spirit because we want to be something. So many of us want to shine for ourselves among men. We are so worried about what others think about us. So many of us want to be acknowledged by men. So many of us want our own desires that are contrary to God. So many of God's people still lack faith! It is NOT about "I just want to do God's will!" But rather, "YOUR WILL BE DONE IN ME!" Understand the terms of Full surrender and get rid of the word "I" for yourselves. If we are to become nothing, then why does this word, "I, me, myself, what about me" continue to rise in us?

John 3:30 (AMP) He must increase, but I must decrease. [He must grow more prominent; I must grow less so.]

You ask what are you to do for God? Whether you think you have been called to be an apostle, prophet, evangelist, preacher, or teacher, all of you need to just go back to basics for so many of us have lost their simple ways to God. So many of God's people like the the days of old are forsaking HIM. Do you not realize, if you forsake HIM, HE WILL FORSAKE YOU! Just go back to basic and spend time with HIM each day worshiping, reading, and praying. Wait for HIM!

2 Chronicles 15:2 (AMP) And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him [inquiring for and of Him, craving Him as your soul’s first necessity], He will be found by you; but if you [become indifferent and] forsake Him, He will forsake you.

I heard a testimony. There is a popular contemporary Christian Korean singer who spoke about her step mother. About sixteen years ago, her step mother who is also a Christian singer got cancer. The step mother was on her way to death. So she ask God, "I am about to die, what do you want me to do, Lord?" HE replied to her, "Just worship and praise ME!"
So before church service, she would go an hour early and she just praise and worship God by herself. Within time, she had become healed.

You and I were created to worship and praise HIM and since many are failing to do this, we have fallen to the many ways of the flesh and thus many of us are sick and without HIS rest and peace. If we return to HIM and into HIS presence, will HE not heal us? Will HIS Glory not heal us? We are not healed whether that be spiritually or physically because we have stepped out of HIS presence and we worship HIM with our lips rather than our hearts. Our hearts are calloused. The pharisee spirit is still much alive and operating today in many of us.

We have created our own veils preventing us from entering the Holy of Holy through our own sin. Ask the Lord to search your hearts. Unless you enter into HIS presence through prayer/worship, how will HE speak and show you? Return to HIM. Humble yourselves, repent, and return to your first Love. Make a choice to stop sinning and leave the things of the world behind.

Matthew 13:14 This fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah that says,
‘When you hear what I say,
you will not understand.
When you see what I do,
you will not comprehend.
15 For the hearts of these people are hardened,
and their ears cannot hear,
and they have closed their eyes—
so their eyes cannot see,
and their ears cannot hear,
and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
and LET ME HEAL THEM.

HE is willing to heal us but we must turn ALL of our heart to HIM.

Fire of God Church
An International Holy Fire Ministry
Fremont, California USA
Pastor Steve Yong Kim

What is the Fire of God Church about? What will God's Fire do?

What is the International Holy Fire Ministry at Fire of God Church about? If you come to this church, your sins will be exposed. Within time, God will expose your sins so that you may have a choice to remove the sin and your idols in order to move forward. One must become humbled confessing their sins. Your past hurts, abuse, trauma, rejection, depression, jealous, envy, pride, self will, and many other bondage will need to be addressed and dealt with. Otherwise, one day, stubborn and prideful hearts will be pruned away.

It is not a place in which one can come and insert their own ideas or goals. It is the House of God in which one must fully surrender their lives. Full submission and obedience are required but it is a place in which spiritual freedom is sensed. Where there is Spirit, there is freedom.

Any self must die, decrease, and become nothing as HE increases and becomes everything. The terms "I, me, and what about me," must all die. It will be the end of all your personal kingdoms and the start of fulfilling God's kingdom. It will be about doing the Father's Will. Everything that one has been learned or taught from the old wine must be put down. One must be ready as the new wine to be put in a new wine sack.

It is not a place in which one can sing their own type of songs. It is not a place in which one can preach their own messages. It is not a place in which one can bring their old wine ideas. It is not a place in which one can do their own thing. It is a place in which the Holy Spirit fully reigns. And since the Holy Spirit reigns, any sin or disobedience is dealt with in discipline and judgment by HIM. But Grace abounds as HE waits for the babes.

It is an Issac Church birthed by the Spirit of God. The church was birthed by HIM and it will be finished by HIM. All of man's wisdom, knowledge, culture, social status, age, financial status, fear, and self righteousness must be put down. All steps are ordered by the Holy Spirit within this church.

This is a church in which uncompromised gospel will be preached. The members will be taught to tithe and offer correctly. They will be taught to keep the 4th commandment properly in the Lord's Day. The members will be taught to remove all of their sins even the smallest from their lives. It is a church in which God has commanded that HIS commandments be taught to HIS people. The Word will be preached and it will come to pierce their hearts dividing spirit and flesh so that they may choose life or death.

Jesus said My House is a House of Prayer. The Fire of God Church is a House of Prayer. If one comes to our church, one will be required to become a prayer and worship warrior. One will be required to remove the sin from their lives. Many are called but few are chosen. Many are called but few will choose to persevere and obey.

This is a House of Prayer in which HIS sons and daughters will come to know their true identity in Christ and no longer have divided hearts. It is a place in which His people are required to bear lasting fruit. They will come to know the true meaning of Holiness. This is a church in which HE has and is gathering HIS people from among the nations to save us for HIS Name sake, to give us a new heart and a new spirit. HE has saved us out of HIS Grace. The Holy Fire Ministry has been commissioned to take the authority and land back from the enemy. The earth belongs to us!

Ez 11:22-28 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: I do not do this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for My holy name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations to which you went.
23 And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name and separate it for its holy purpose from all that defiles it—My name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them—and the nations will know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service], when I shall be set apart by you and My holiness vindicated in you before their eyes and yours.
24 For I will [a]take you from among the nations and gather you out of all countries and bring you into your own land.25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness; and from all your idols will I cleanse you.26 A new heart will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.27 And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you shall heed My ordinances and do them.28 And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your God.

This is HIS Church and we are HIS people and HE is our God. Come all you who are weary with heavy burden and find your rest in HIM for HIS yoke is light and HE is humble and gentle in Heart.

God bless you all!

Fire of God Church
An International Holy Fire Ministry
Pastor Steve Yong Kim

Are you after GOD’S HEART? by Diane Solver

Malachi 1:6-14 "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?' 7 By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, 'How have we polluted you?' By saying that the LORD's table may be despised. 8 When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts. 9 And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts. 10 Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand. 11 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts. 12 But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised. 13 But you say, 'What a weariness this is,' and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD. 14 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.”



In the Old Testament, God gave the Israelites specific instructions on what to offer. They should offer the best of their flocks and the best of their grains and fruits. He gave laws to follow. They should not offer blind, lame, or sick animal with blemish. They should offer what the Lord wants them to offer. But nowadays, many are serving Daddy God in their own ways. Many are giving their offerings to God according to what they want. Many are giving polluted offerings. Daddy God has standards. And His standards are higher than our standards. We honor the Lord when we do what He wants. We honor Him when we obey Him.



Most of us are self-seeking. We want things and so we pray for it. But how many have asked the Lord for what He wants? Many pray for a large ministry not because they want to glorify the Lord but because they enjoy being in the ministry. Many want to please themselves and get self satisfaction through serving. But have we ever asked God for what He wants? Have we ever asked Him if He approves what we are doing in the ministry? Did we ask Him if what we are doing in our lives are pleasing to Him?

Jeremiah 7:24 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Psalms 81:12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

Those who do not ask counsel from the Lord are the ones who often compromise or disobey. They don’t have the fear of the Lord. They do what they want to do. If we continue to do what we want to do and if we refuse to ask counsel from the Lord, He will eventually gave us over to our stubborn hearts.

Psalms 32:8 “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.”

Isaiah 28:29 “This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.”

Ask the Lord what He wants. Many do not ask the Lord because they fear that the Lord might ask them to do difficult things that they do not want. Many people pretend to be deaf and they just do what they think is more easy and more comfortable. Yes, His way is difficult. It is narrow. But it is the only way to life. If we take counsel from the Lord and allow Him to guide us, we will not be lost because He’ll teach us the right way. We must know what pleases the Lord. We must ask Him what He wants. We must know what He likes and what He dislikes. We must know Him personally. We must know His ways. We must walk with Him. We must obey Him at all cost. We must be one with Him for we are His bride. We must be people after His own heart, people who knows His heart. Are you after His heart?



ALL GLORY TO GOD

-Daddy’s girl

Your faith must endure to the end

Ezekiel 18:24-25 But if the righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.25 Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not fair and just.Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not My way fair and just? Are not your ways unfair and unjust?

If someone got saved a year ago and believed in the Lord at that time and was faithful and on fire but now has back slidden and is back into their sin, would that person's believing and faith in the Lord last year be sufficient to make it into heaven now if such a person died even though he/she is not properly believing now? Obviously not.

Our faith and believing must endure to the end. What we have believed before would be in vain if we are not believing in a higher state now or in the future. We are to be moving from Glory to Glory becoming the image and nature of our Lord Jesus. If we are not growing, stagnant and moving backwards, our seed would have fallen on the road side, thorns, or rocky soil. Such branches will be pruned from the VINE and thrown into the fire of weeping and anguish. May you all persevere and endure until the end.

Matthew 13:13 But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked man turns from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all My statutes and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22 None of his transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for his righteousness which he has executed [for his moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation], he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord, and not rather that he should turn from his evil way and return [to his God] and live?

There is always hope if you are willing. But you must make such choice "Today" and not tomorrow. Return to HIM now while HE may be found. Return to HIM now while you have the Grace to Repent.

Pastor Steve Yong Kim

Halloween is not part of us

We are called to separate ourselves from this world. If you participate with the things of the world, we will share in its sins and then its judgments. Halloween is not part of us and we need to completely sever ourselves from it. Do NOT participate with Halloween. We look at South America and they celebrate the "Day of the Dead." 

So many people are wearing clothes with pictures of skull and death. So many people are placing stickers on their cars and hats of skulls and death. So many people including Christians are tattooing skulls of death onto themselves. They are speaking DEATH over their lives. The spiritual realm is more real than many realize including Christians. We should know about the spiritual but many Christians are so ignorant about it. It may look trivial on the surface but they thought and said smoking and drinking was harmless at first also. Do not be deceived, God will not be mocked!

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.

Joshua 24:5 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it; and afterward I brought you out.

Egypt is the world. There is a plague on Egypt. If we as God's people continue to participate with the world, we will subject ourselves to the plagues of Egypt. 

James 4:4 You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy.

Pastor Steve Yong Kim

Pruning

Proverbs 11:2 (AMP) When swelling and pride come, then emptiness and shame come also, but with the humble (those who are lowly, who have been pruned or chiseled by trial, and renounce self) are skillful and godly Wisdom and soundness.

Our hearts and lives are purified and pruned by the trials, tests, and tribulations of life. We can either accept the discipline and of the denying of one self or we can be pruned out completely from the Vine.

Romans 11:22 (AMP) Then note and appreciate the gracious kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s gracious kindness to you—provided you continue in His grace and abide in His kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off (pruned away).

We understand and may know HIS Kindness but do you know HIS severity? We must CONTINUE in His Grace and abide in His kindness. It is not a one time event of accepting Jesus Christ, you MUST CONTINUE in HIM. How do we Continue to abide in HIM?

John 15:2 (AMP) Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.

You can thank God in all your circumstances overcoming your trials, tests, and tribulation and have those ugly parts of your hearts pruned away as you bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit or you can complain and grumble bearing fruit of the enemy and be completely pruned away in whole. When difficulties arise, rather than praying and asking God to get you out of that situation so quickly, you must ask why it is happening. There is a message for you in all circumstances and for you to learn something. Learn His judgments and discipline.

The choice is yours. Choose life or death. Choose the narrow road. Always be praying in the spirit brethren.
Psalm 51:10 (AMP) Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me
 
Pastor Steve Yong Kim