“Lord, let fire come down from heaven!”

At Elijah’s word: “Lord, let fire come down from heaven”, fire came down and consumed the bull on Mount Carmel, and then it came down twice more and consumed fifty soldiers each time. However, that fire had come down into him first. The Prophet Elijah had experience of the fire of God. This fire had already purified his soul. So this fire should purify us. For example, I say: “Lord, let fire consume this thought!” I can imagine fire and say: “This thought is a lie. It has taken flesh in my feelings. I did not want it to but there is a mechanism of sin in me which immediately embodies it. I unite with it although I do not want to. Lord, let fire consume it all. If I have seen any impure images or billboards, now I bring it all to Your light. Let Your fire purify my heart of all impure thoughts or feelings. Let it consume all envious, critical or other thoughts. Let it burn!” Jesus said: “I came to cast fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!” And I call: “Let it burn, I want it too.” You brought fire and You want us to be baptized with fire, so that this fire may consume all that is not of God – all despair, all rebellion against God, all jealousy, envy. Now I suffer purgatory here on earth. Now I am baptized not only with the Holy Spirit but with His fire too. Now I open my heart to God as if I should die and see Jesus at this moment. I reflect on certain moments of my life. Now I want to be judged by God. I do not want to go to Purgatory. Fire will test everything (see 1Cor 3:13). Let this fire of God burn now! Let it burn up all bonds, all sins, all that was in the past. I separate from it and confess: “Every sin was a lie.” I call on God, I realize concrete situations and I let fire burn there. I intensively perceive a ray of light which unites me to God. I realize the presence of God; I realize that God sees me. “Lord, Your fire is now burning in me. I throw everything into this fire. Let it consume and purify everything!” It is a fire of truth and pure love; it is an invisible fire but it works. It is connected with Christ. It is not without Him. It is connected with the Holy Spirit. On the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles, tongues of fire appeared to them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they witnessed to Christ and for their witness they became martyrs. Before that they had received power – the power of God. If the power of God is to work in us, the fire of Jesus must burn in us. If we are purified by the fire of God, in the hour of death, when we will stand before Jesus, we will see in a moment that those flames burnt all our sins and the Blood of Christ cleansed our soul. Jesus will say then: “I have nothing to judge; I died for your sins. My fire purified you of all. Enter into the joy of your Lord.”

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