The ocean, Monday 10th April 2006

I am still dancing and swimming in the ocean. I look up to see the sun setting on the horizon. Just for fun I begin swimming towards it. It turns out though that it is actually in the ocean. It doesn't consume the water all around it, but its heat it fierce. I swim right up to it.

We cannot just try to grab the fire of God without first going through the water. The only way for me to get to the sun was by swimming out to it. The water is the word of God. It is the truth of God. It is the living spirit of God speaking to us. We cannot hope to attain the fiery faith of God without these things.

But then I went further. I actually swam through the fire into the centre of the sun. Herein was the very nature of God. The perfect love of the father. The holiness of God. The righteousness of Jesus and the power of the spirit.

We cannot get to this without going through the fire.

HAVE YOUR WAY OH LORD!!!

EDIT: So at prayer meeting the Lord showed me this which is pretty cool.

I saw a guy rowing towards the sun. When he got there he tried to row through the fire to the inside but his boat wouldn't go through. He had to jump out of the boat to swim through the fire. But it was really difficult because he had to learn to swim all at once, whereas I had swum the whole way there!

The vehicle in which we negotiate the word of God has to be the correct one, otherwise when we hit the fire we'll have to learn to swim all of a sudden. We must be prepared to travel God's way, otherwise things will get uncomfortable...