The Daily Dynamic Encounter Devotional Volume 1

The need to remain on fire for God is all the more critical as we head into the last days. The icy hands of Satan, sin and the pleasures of this life is freezing the love of many. The Lord will come for a church and believers whose lamps are burning and are on fire for God. The Bible says "Let your waists be girded and your lamps burning and you yourselves be like men who wait for their master, when he returns from the wedding, that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately" (Luke 12:35). To be like men who wait for the return of their master; we have to gird our waists and our lamps have to be burning. The uprightness or the virginity of the believer will be assumed; the difference maker will be spiritual temperature.

Do I have oil in my lamp? Am I burning for God? Do I have an endless, intense longing and burning desire for God? The answer to these simple but far-reaching questions will determine whether we end up as the wise or foolish virgins. God cannot afford those with a cold desire for Him. A. W. Tozer says, "If you find worship boring, then you are not ready to heaven". Our call to be priests is a call to keep a constant spiritual temperature: keep the fire

burning. The Bible says, "And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning...." (Leviticus 6:12). The minimum requirement of the Lord for us as priests is that the altar of our hearts should burn perpetually with fire.