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Today, Tuesday, April 19, is the thirty-sixth day of Lent. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
 
Assignment 36
 
In you today is a Holy Fire. This fire can burn up all the dross, all the waste matter of your fear thoughts and your beliefs in separation. All that worries you and robs you and causes you untold emptiness and suffering can be consumed by this inner fire. The Scriptures tell, “I have cast a fire upon the world and see, I guard it until the world is afire.” (Thomas) Man has this burning within him, and Isaiah says, “It shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.” (10:17)
 
The fire is the living, believing, and loving in the mind and heart of man. Tongues of fire are the flashes of illumination and the light of intuition that even now burns in our hearts. The Spiritual fire in us never goes out, it only smolders. Spiritual fire destroys all evil and error. It is direct from “that which is within you that is greater than all that is in the world.” The Kingdom is within you.
 
If you know yourself then you will be known and you will know you are a son of the living God and One with all Power. Never fear to cast out all in the Spiritual Fire, what is cast in will either be destroyed because it is nothing or will come forth pure gold.
 
Give all that you are and all that you can hope to be to the Fire of God, that you may know the real, that can stand the fire, or the unreal that is consumed by it. We are in the potter’s hands and we are fired that we may be beautiful and true and withstand all outer pressure!
 
The flames are Truth in action; the fire is in the supreme knowing that burns in the wisdom of the heart. That which is good and true can never be destroyed – but only purified. “Every man’s work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall prove it – man himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire! (I Cor. 3:13-14)
 
We may walk through burning forests of life but Spirit never ceases its life-giving purifying glow. In it all error, sickness, poverty, discord or death or anything else that separates us from Truth is burned up in consciousness and the purified being I am and you are manifests this fire as eternal life. “Our God is a consuming fire” – all will be finished in each of us. We shall be fully aware of our Oneness with our Indwelling Spirit. This is the reconciliation of God and man and brings us to the overcoming of the belief in death!
 
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
 
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THE FIRE OF GOD

36th Day, Tuesday. Read Acts 2:1-21.

Fire represents the positive, affirmative state of mind, as opposed to the negative or watery state.

The fire of God (Holy Spirit) is the Word of God in action. It burns out the dross of negation in consciousness, and reveals Christ. Tongues of fire represent the illumination of thought, in demonstration of Spirit’s presence and power. The flame of fire symbolizes the light of intuition that burns in our heart.

While the light of intuition (flame of fire) burns in our heart, there is no loss of substance. In thinking there is a vibratory process that uses up nerve tissue, but in the wisdom that comes from the heart this “bush” or tissue is not consumed. This is “holy ground,” or substance in Divine Mind. When man approaches this he must take off from his understanding all limited thoughts of the Absolute (”put off thy shoes from off thy feet”).

Spiritual fire is a symbol of the destruction of evil and error. The fire of Spirit never ceases its life-giving, purifying glow. In it all error is burned up in consciousness and the purified man then manifests this “fire” as eternal life.

I have the assurance that I shall not be left partially cleansed, that the purifying work will be complete. “Our God is a consuming fire,” also He is life, love, substance, power, intelligence, Truth.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I affirm: “The Holy Spirit flares its cleansing, purifying flames throughout soul and body, and I am made whole and perfect.”

Questions:

1. What does fire represent?

2. What is the fire of God?

3. What does the fire of God do?

4. What must we do when we approach holy ground?

The works of Spirit are always constructive. I am not afraid to be on fire with the idea of God; I am not afraid to be consumed with a desire for greater light and Truth.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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