Burn the Fat and BE the Fire!

Hello Wonderful Friends!

Last Saturday I began my message talking about my time praying with Peter Holthe, Kara's husband, who was battling cancer (you can hear what I said on podcast by going to www.blazingfire.org). I said that he was very close to being home with Jesus. I didn't know it at the time, but it turns out that Peter was already home with Jesus when I spoke those words. He passed from life to More Life just about the time we concluded the worship portion of our service (about 7:30 pm). Although Peter did not attend Blazing Fire, I had the distinct privilege of getting to know him in quite a special way over these past two weekends. Kara has been coming to Blazing Fire for several years, and for those of you who wish to surround her with loving support, you are warmly invited to Peter's memorial service to be held this Saturday, March 6th, at 2 pm at The Church on the Hill, 20801 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon, CA, with a reception following at the Senior Center in Dublin. If you would be willing to help with some of the set up and clean up of the sanctuary, please respond to this e-mail to let me know.

This coming Saturday night at Blazing Fire will be a very special family time together, hearing from the missionaries returning from Israel and as well as a few others. We will end with prophetic ministry to bring great encouragement, hope and vision to God's people!

Last Saturday at our service, I read a prophetic word from Chuck Pierce that we acted upon by allowing the Fire of God to burn away those things in our life which were holding us down. It was a pretty wild night and I expect that much good fruit will spring forth from the faith that was displayed last Saturday. Here is that word:

Dear Glory Seekers:

We are entering a new glory realm. This is such a key time and the Lord is calling us forth to "see His glory." We are developing a new identity in this new season. We wear the glory. Ask the Lord for a new prophetic release and a new level of supply. Wealth and glory go together. This past week the Lord has shown me some patterns to help us move forward. We must discern our present place and go beyond.

As we gathered this past week, the Lord spoke: "You will go beyond where you have been in the past. You had fire in one season, but now you will go beyond and BE fire for the next season. You will draw back the bow and shoot beyond where you have gone in the past. You will ford and eddy and you will go into that water, and yet you will not back up when the water deepens around you. You will go beyond!"

I see a picture. It's almost like you were lost in a snow storm and you've been pressing to find your way out. You are almost through the forest, but you feel like you need to lie down and sleep—that it is too hard to press on through. I hear the Lord say, "The fire is coming in you and melting away what is trying to cause you to slumber in this season. You have lost your 'soul press.' I am rekindling your soul, for there is an identity in you that is going to be fiery and will burn your way through this season. Momentum is coming through the fire gate. Catch the moment and you will create the event you've been watching for. You have said, 'The event is escaping me.' Catch the moment when I blow up through your soul and awaken the past deposits of My glory that have fallen asleep.

"Your soul has been dry and your soul has cried, but today there is a sound of rushing waters in your soul that is causing your soul not only to be healed, but to see. By seeing deep into your soul, your identity will be displayed. Allow the rivers flowing from My throne to flow in your soul so that your soul comes alive in Me with new energy to press forward. Your soul will now see! You have not seen your identity reflect the desires deep within you. I am causing a river to cause a reflection to come through you that you have not seen.

"The identities of My people in the earth are now changing and they will have a different identity as they cross into their future. Remove that which is not reflecting Me. Words have been spoken that stopped you from digesting My word in the past and stopped you with fear from branching out into places that I am calling you to branch out into. Those words are now being pushed out by the River and the Fire in you so that you will have a boldness to say, 'This is who I am in this season.'

"There is a smell of sacrifice that I am calling to arise from My people, because the fire that was once burning has been rekindled. You have smelled the burning from the past but have not seen the fire. Smell the burning and watch, for the fire will come alive. I am blowing on the fire. The smell of burning is on you, but now the fire will blaze in you. There must be a release of new fire through My people. Ask Me to open that fire gate and cause the smell of burning that has been purifying you in the last several months to turn to a new, blazing fire.

"The fat is going in the fire! You have been trying to lose weight on your own, in the flesh. You have been trying to get rid of weight—not just physically, but spiritual weights—and the fat is going in the fire. The fire gate of Heaven is opening and the fat is in the fire! You will move toward the river and go beyond the river and the depth you have been in the past season."

LeAnn Squier shared: One of the things about fat is that all the toxins are stored there. It is so good of God to say for us just to throw all of the fat on the fire. I also thought about how Paul was bitten by the serpent and shook it off into the fire. The Lord is saying, "There is a lot of stuff in the fat of that past season that I am asking you to offer Me, because there are serpents in it. I'm asking you to shake it off and let Me consume it on My fire, on My altar.

"Bring a sacrifice to Me. Go forward beyond where you have been before. Bring a sacrifice of you to Me, and in your sacrificing to Me, what has been held up (brooding within you) now will begin to move out of you and deliverance will come. You will find yourself standing in the place that I have longed for you to stand. Deliverance now has been activated. The flood gate, the fire gate of deliverance, have now opened up and deliverance is moving through My people. They are sacrificing to Me in a new way. Watch Me set a fire within you!"

Lastly, I wanted to share with you some cool things that Terry Lawrence saw in the Spirit last Saturday night at Blazing Fire:

Last night at Blazing Fire, our Jesus showed up in a different way that I have ever seen Him at BFC before!!! YAY! He was as tall as the ceiling. He was wearing a loose tan, coarse looking but soft ,cloth tunic that came down to His calves, and with loose sleeves that came to about his elbows (the cloth glowed! ), and dark brown dreadlocks (can we call them lovelocks?).

Part of the time Brent was teaching Jesus was standing in front of him swaying gently side to side, looking and listening but He also kissed Brent on the head a few times and stood behind him once with His hands on his shoulders. At times He danced; always joyful, deeply loving, deeply peaceful and those attributes flowed over us from His very Presence. During the drum time at the end Jesus was beating a drum too, very energetically and having a grand time dancing very enthusiastically at times!

The atmosphere was full of light,healing and deliverance. [There must be many testimonies today of what Jesus did last night, today and forever!]

When Brent talked about the Lion of the Tribe of Judah…The Lion showed up with the enemy in His mouth, shaking , shaking, shaking him! I can hear Him growling now as I write this! J He was huge too, almost as tall as the ceiling, golden tan, glowing mane, fierce but kind, confidently powerful, enjoying Himself and definitely “not tame, but very good.”

YAY JESUS!!!! YAY JESUS!!!!