The Altar (Where Heaven meets Earth)

As I was talking with the Lord in prayer last week, He led me to pray these words to him, "Let me be the altar that you choose to show your glory on." As I wrote the words down in my prayer journal I asked the Lord to clarify what he was inspiring me to pray. I knew the altar to be the place where I laid my life as the living sacrifice but not to be the altar itself.

He then lead me to 1 Kings 18v21-40 , where Elijah, on Mount Carmel, challenges the children of Israel to choose between the Lord or Baal, and cease from serving two masters. The prophets of Baal went first, calling on their "god" to send fire and consume the bullock which was the sacrifice. For hours, they cried out for Baal to reveal himself and from morning till noon nothing happened. Not a sound, not a spark, no regard, nor voice came. Even after they cut themselves....

But when Elijah came forward the following happened:

A.  He repaired the broken altar
B. Built it with 12 stones, each for the 12 tribes of Israel.
C. Rebuilt it unto the Lord.
D. Made a trench around it to hold the overflow.
E. He put the wood in order, prepared the scarife and placed it on the altar.
F. He commanded for water to be poured on the altar, wood and sacrifice, three times.
G. The water over flows and he puts more water in the trench
H. He calls on God for manifeststion of his power and Lordship, strength and sovereignty.
I. Fire falls down from heaven and consumes the burnt sacrife, the wood, the stones (the altar), the dust, and the water in the trench too.
J. The children of Israel fall on their faces and glorify God (v39b), "and they said, the Lord he is the God; the Lord he is the God."

Heaven in Hebrew, comes from two root words that mean fire and water. In heaven, a place of the super natural, water and fire co-exist. Jesus taught us to pray and ask for heaven to be experienced here on earth. For the supernatural to be our way of living. In heaven, water attracts fire and vice versa. So it's no mistake that we are 70% water, and on the day of Pentecost fire was attracted yet again to water (cloves of fire sat on their heads).

Water is associated the Holy Spirit but mainly represents the Word. The Lord wants his bride to be the altar that is saturated in his word. Where we are drenched and soaked in the word of the Lord. Where we live by EVERY word out of God's mouth and are eager to digest his spoken amd written words. Taking time to study the word and let it read us till we are overflowing. But first it begins with being broken. Having a broken spirit and contrite heart as David cried in Ps 51. A life that is humble before God to be shaped and molded as he sees fit.

The 12 stones for the altar represent the 12 parts of our lives that the Lord molds and shapes (look for details in my upcoming book JOSEPH: The Dreamer's Anointing). Reuben represents your soul, Simeon your flesh, Judah your spirit man and so on.
But the water of the word in and on our lives attracts the fire of heaven and the supernatural is seen and people glorify the Lord and call him THE GOD.

IS YOUR LIFE SATURATED IN THE WORD? IS YOUR LIFE SATURATED IN JESUS? When and if the answer is yes, at the altars of our lives we will see: sacrifice, manifestation, testimony, worship, landmarks, new beginnings and miracles.

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