Why proclaim words without letting the Holy Spirit take possession of your faculties? Without cultivating Him? Without paying a certain spiritual price to spark a movement of the Holy Spirit in the atmosphere so that the Word of God permeates people’s hearts?

“And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” – Genesis 1:2

After the Holy Spirit had hovered over the waters, then the Father, through the Word of God, brought forth what the Spirit of God had prepared. You cannot bring forth something the Holy Spirit has not yet infused. The Holy Spirit must first cover the waters’ surface. Then God began to bring out what had already been planted on the face of the waters. Everything emerged from the water. Darkness covered the face of the deep. And there was water everywhere over the nations.

“And God said: Let there be light! And there was light.” – Genesis 1:3

Who infused light before God brought it forth? The Holy Spirit. Who infused brightness over the face of the deep? The Spirit of God. Who infused light into the firmament, the great light? The Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit has not yet swept over a nation, regardless of how many preachers there are, nothing will happen.

We have too many preachers. We have so many Bible schools, but until we train people who provoke the Holy Spirit, until we have institutions that know how to trigger the movement of the Holy Spirit, nations will not be won.

A spiritual network must precede the manifestation of the Word of God. It’s the size of the spirit. It’s time for ministries to declare a seven-day dry fast. I said, “Dry.”

They want to speak of Jesus, but they cannot follow His steps. They want to preach Paul, but they cannot follow this man’s steps. They preach and aspire to the same results as Paul, but they do not want to pay the price Paul paid. Not in my generation. This is why I am already in my twelve-month fast as I write this book.

My deepest prayer is: My Father, my Father, let Your fire burn within me, purify, remove, kill everything that represents remnants of the flesh. Let Your fullness manifest through my life in this generation.

Whatever it costs, whatever I have to do to kill my flesh, I will kill my desires; I will kill everything God hates, for the Holy Spirit must fully tabernacle within our vessel. We are done trying to explain God; stop trying to preach God, stop trying to explain God.

We are called to be witnesses of Christ. When Jesus had not yet tabernacled and established His dwelling in the apostles’ hearts, He sent them to preach. He sent out the twelve, giving them this command:

“Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. And as you go, proclaim this message: The kingdom of heaven has come near.” – Matthew 10:5-7

But as He prepared to dwell within them, He said:

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” – Acts 1:8

You should be a living example of My existence, not a speaking example of My existence. You cannot merely speak of God; you manifest Him. We will manifest Him to the intellectual world in an intellectual way. We manifest the wisdom of God, we manifest power, we manifest authority, we manifest creative miracles.

You are the generation God has raised in these last days to manifest the fullness of God. What do you call the end times? What do you call the end? Sometimes, our concept of the end is a sudden fire burning everyone or a flood destroying all humanity.

No! That may be part of it, but it is not the whole. What is the end? The end is that God the Father has exhausted His ministry and the work assigned to Him before creation. The end is that God the Son came and completed His work before returning to Himself. Then He sent the Holy Spirit. So, the person who is, of course, the last person in the revelation of divinity is about to complete His mission.

“And every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” – Philippians 2:11

You see whom He established as Lord, keeper, and administrator of His creation. His name is Jesus. This is why the Bible says that all things were made by Him.

Thus, Jesus is not only the Lord of your spirit. He is Lord by essence. His role in the community of the Divinity is lordship. And if you do not have Him as Lord, you will not be saved. He is not only the Lord of your life, but He is also the Lord of all creation. One day, He will submit all things to His Father…

This text is an excerpt from the book THE BAPTISM OF FIRE written by JOHN ANOSIKE.

We invite you to read the following article: THE PREDISPOSITIONS FOR THE FIRE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

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