Special Christmas Service December 21st

Special Christmas Service this Saturday! We're joining with Psalm 84 and The East Bay Prayer Furnace to celebrate the birth of our King Jesus! 6:00-7:30 pm  Note the short length of the service. Arrive on time or you may miss much of it!! Children or all ages are welcomed and encouraged to stay with us during the entire service. There will be lots of singing of Chirstmas Carols as well as the Candle Lighting near the end of the service. Even the few messages by each of the lead pastor couples will be powerful but brief. Year after year, this special Christmas service has been a rich family time together, so please come if you can and be part of the BF Family Christmas! We love you all so much! Brent & Suzanne

We so appreciate your financial contributions throughout this past year and for your financial end-of-the-year "Christmas Gift" to Blazing Fire Church if you are able to do so! You can send checks to P.O. Box 1599, Pleasanton, CA We are also able to receive stocks. To do so, contact suzanne@blazingfire.org 2019 Contribution Statements will again be sent out in January 2020 via email for those from whom we have an email address. Please email suzanne@blazingfire.org with your update email address to ensure proper delivery.

Breakthrough In Unusual Ways - Shandy Pekkonen

Early one evening on my way to a meeting, I was driving in San Pablo on I-80. I hit unexpected traffic, so I began to pray. I asked the Lord to release His angels to clear up any wreck, to bring healing to any people who needed healing, and to clear up cars that needed to get off the road. When I was done praying the Lord asked me “How fast would you like to go?” So I said, “I’d like to go 70 mph within two minutes.” To my amazement, it was as if the Lord had placed a flashing emergency light on the roof of my car. The sea of cars in front of me began to split to my left and to my right. As I was in one of the middle lanes, I was able to drive past everyone and I made it to my meeting on time! We find in Acts 12:7-10 that an angel showed up while Peter was in jail. The angel kind of bumps him and tells him to get up and put on his clothes. Keep in mind Peter was sleeping right in the middle of two guards. Nevertheless, the angel walks him right out of the prison. Peter even thinks it was a dream until he comes out of it and realizes he’s outside the prison. In Matthew 2:13 an angel came to Joseph in a dream. The angel warned Joseph that he and Mary should leave Bethlehem and go to Egypt to keep Jesus safe from Herod. I believe in this hour and in this Christmas season the Lord wants to show Himself in unusual ways. This is not only to bring breakthrough in our lives, but to show us Himself in a different way, so that we would grow in intimacy and grow in knowing Him in a fresh way. As we keep our eyes fixed on Him, let us remember that God is a lot bigger than we think. Let us ask the Lord, as I did that evening on the road, to move on our behalf in ways in which we are not accustomed. This is so we can fulfill what God has called us to fulfill and to walk with Him. Shandy Pekkonen Shandy Pekkonen Ministries If you'd like to hear about the reality of God's supernatural Kingdom with several other stories of angelic stories from Shandy's life, along with prayers to receive more spiritual vision in order to bring transformation wherever God has you, listen to Shandy's message from this past Saturday at Blazing Fire:

"Encountering the Supernatural Realm to Bring about God's Transformation in our Communities"

You Are Sufficient and Significant by Tiffany James

As the new year is approaching, I have been feeling Papa tugging on my heart so strongly to remind His bride that they are suffienct, as well as significant! That’s right He wants to remind us that we are not only enough, but more than enough! Feelings of inadequacy is the same trap the enemy has used since the beginning. The enemy's goal is to cause God’s children to partner with unbelief. In Genesis 3:1-3, we read with sadden hearts the day Eve doubted the goodness of her Creator. It was the day her doubt caused her to turn from God to something else to feel complete. She looked outside of what she knew to be true and bit into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Now that which was confined to a tree would become a seed inside of her womb, giving birth to something she never had to contend with before because she had no knowledge of it – evil.  This was the beginning of mankind’s identity crisis. Eve no longer saw herself through the father eyes, but through the lenses of deception. She would live out a life that was birthed from a lie. How tragic is that! Yet, the enemy is still cunning, and we might not realize that if too can fall into the same trap. When we believe that we lack something it causes us to look away from God and look to something or someone else to feel complete. It causes us to chase after in order to obtain that which we feel we lack. Feelings of inadequacy causes us to distrust what God said about us in His word or believe the lie that it only applies to the more worthy men and women of God.  We can fall into the trap of not feeling anointed enough, powerful enough, gifted enough, prophetic enough, and the list can go on. When this happens, we can start to chase after the anointing or people we feel are more anointed than us forgetting that the Anointed One lives within each of us. If we are not mindful, we can find ourselves chasing after miracles, signs, and wonders to prove that we are significant in the Kingdom of God. If we are not careful, we find ourselves constantly trying to silence the lie or fill the void. This is exhausting because nothing will ever satisfy you but God, Himself. I hear God saying, “Take your running shoes off and put your dancing shoes on.”  Remember, His word states that miracles, signs, and wonders will follow you if you believe. All these supernatural promises are a part of our everyday life because the great I AM lives inside of each of us. It is our norm but that does not take away from how Extraordinary our life in Him is. Things are always happening as we learn to move as one with Papa in the rhythm of His grace. Whether you are prophesying from the pulpit or healing depression with your smile, you are dancing with God! Keep your eyes fixed on the Lover of your soul. Don’t fall in the trap of wanting the power of God instead of a relationship with God! He chose you to represent Him in the earth realm and the moment you shrink back a part of Him is not being revealed. You lack nothing because the God who is the creator of everything lives in you! You have full access to Him and everything you need to fulfill your purpose through His Holy Spirit. If there are areas in your life where you're feeling inadequate or you're still questioning His goodness in regards to how He created you, take some time and invite Him into those parched places so that His living waters can help you perceive the truth of how fearfully and wonderfully He made you. He will answer you and show you.  If you want more of Him, look to Him and you will find Him!

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.  Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile. Jeremiah 29:11-13

With Love, TIffany

Listen to Tiffany's message, "Living in the Land of I Am"