Biblical Secrets For Continuous Consecretion

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So very grateful for the very unique privilege that you have granted us to participate in what you have chosen to bring upon the earth in our generation. I'm so very grateful, particularly for this Seiko 2021. Right from the opening charge on Wednesday, we can testify that your presence has accompanied us so very closely, so very powerfully, so very effectively.

The various aspects of the meeting have been very rich. There have been so many and yet all woven together by your own spirit that has led us. We want to thank you for the utterances you brought, particularly in the messages that have been giving us clear direction as to what you are saying and as to what you are doing.

We cannot claim a right to any of these favors. And that's why, Lord, we really just want to tell you already we are overwhelmed, overwhelmed by the measure of mercy, of grace, of love, of your kindness, that you take thoughts so closely of us, that you have chosen to work with us. It is so obvious.

And we want to tell you, God, that we are grateful. We are grateful for all of our brethren, the younger generation, particularly that you've gathered all over the world in various centers, in campuses, in some meeting points in towns and villages, and in several countries of this present world. Who could have done this if not you alone, oh God? We are considering ourselves so very small to be used of you for such great and mighty things.

And we are asking that please keep noting that we are only standing around because we know you are the worker. We know only you who is capable of such things, you are available. And you are already engaged.

Your commitment is not in doubt. We just want to first tell you we are very grateful. Who can we look to but you, oh God? We can't claim to know how to go.

First, because we have never known how to go. And secondly, because this, again, is such, again, freshly holy ground that we can't stand on it in our own spiritual feet, in our own spiritual shoes. We are asking that, oh God, you will be our strength, our source.

You will come again and you will yourself speak to us. As you speak through this voice that is human, because that they hear us, we hear God. We are praying that in the hearts of each of our people that you will be explaining yourself so detaily, such that none will miss the instructions you intend to bring his or her way.

Be exalted, be magnified. Thank you, Father, for in Jesus' name we have prayed. Amen.

Now, for each one of you, it must have become very clear to you that you didn't come in by accident. God drew you because he has penciled you down and he wants to confirm your being, number one, available, and number two, prepared so that you can be eligible. And then, even in this same moment, he is pointing out to us the way into our sustained and progressive preparation, the way of discipleship.

He is guiding us to know how to key in as we are recruited and envisioned so that our training, our instruction, our equipping can continue and we can therefore be effective for you in life and in our ministry. We are aware also that in this meeting, God is setting himself ready to shoot us out, to commission us. That's why it is, go in this, thy might.

He's dealing with all that will hinder us from going and going to be very effective for him so that he can then send us forth. I would like you to not forget that in the course of today, God has been emphasizing the matter of our loyalty to him. Our loyalty to him is of a very important priority.

For anyone he would entrust with serving him, he will equip to stand for him. Our leader, as he was sharing, he told us how God confronted him with the issue of his betrayal of trust. And in the same way, whether very well noted or whether not noted, that's his demand upon every life that would serve him.

Many who may have ignored it did ignore it to their own peril. They actually disqualified themselves even though God would have chosen to show them the mercy of recruiting them for his service. But it's not only because he abhors or hates betrayal of trust, but that it is in our being secured in total loyalty to him that we guarantee our availability for him, we guarantee our effectiveness also in living for him as the opportunities present themselves on our path of service.

Now, but for this moment, as we will be again going before him for help in prayer, I would like for us to look at a few, very few biblical instructions that are dealing with how we can overcome and set aside and free ourselves from what would always normally constitute the obstacle to our being wholly available unto God. So if you like, we are saying how can I set my life apart for God and be consistent in making myself available for him and be assured that I can be effective for him as I go along in the course of life. Now this is important since several of us have even answered the call to be born of God and to be made available as his children as we came to this circle.

The Lord is eyeing you. The Lord is focusing on you. The Lord is seeking that if you will be willing and you will be obedient, you begin also to experience the same kind of victories that those who were ready and had a correct heart, they experienced in the hand of God as they followed their own Gideon.

Now I would like us to read this Romans chapter 12 and just the verses 1 and 2 on which we will be taking a moment to explore some basic issues that we must take very seriously in order to avoid the entanglements, avoid the distractions, avoid the setbacks that people experience even when they will have decided sincerely that they want to follow God. I would like us to look at this very closely and we'll be praying that what we are going to discover here, God in his mercy, he will make it our very lives. He will cause us to step into it.

He will show us the step to take that we'll be taking in prayer this evening in order to step into it and to begin to enjoy the benefit of living a life that God himself acknowledges he possesses and he can use. Now in Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 which I would like to read, the Bible said, I beseech you therefore by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may prove, so that you may come to clearly tell the difference between what the will of God is and whatever else is not his will. You will prove what the will of God truly is, that it is what is good, it is what is acceptable and it is what is perfect for every one of our lives.

May the Lord grant the understanding of this short passage of his word to our lives and make us partakers of the reality of it in our lives hereafter in the name of Jesus. Now very quickly I want you to note that if this passage began by saying, I beseech you therefore, it is because there was actually a background to this point at which this instruction is coming. It would have been very strange to start reading this passage for our opening church but between Wednesday and all through yesterday, God has given each and every one of us the opportunity to encounter the transforming power of the cross of Jesus.

God has given each of us the opportunity to take the decision to benefit from the sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross of Calvary and to yield our old life to experience the death that he has arranged for us on this cross so that we can step into newness of life by the resurrection that he has also accomplished for our own transformation so that as you receive Jesus, your old life will end and you will carry Jesus. We've been hearing so much about carrying Jesus, carrying Jesus into even our lecture halls, carrying Jesus in our homes, carrying Jesus to the market, carrying Jesus into our offices, carrying Jesus even into our research laboratories, carrying Jesus. We have been told that it is Christ in you, Christ in me that is the hope of glory.

Now we are dealing with how do you step into the glory. The glory we are talking about here is experiencing the wonderful life of having God himself living his life in us. The wonderful experience of daily manifesting the life of heaven here on earth, of becoming an instrument, a life that is being used of God, is being used by the Lord Jesus, a life that is an ambassador of heaven, a life that represents God everywhere that you are found, a life of glory.

I know there's so much glory in being a minister in a federal government, even if the country is only borrowing, and has hardly anything to boast about, that they introduced you as the minister, it looks very glorious. I know there's so much glory in being the ambassador of a country, and particularly if that country is a country that is a world power, if that country is a member of the United Nations Security Council, it's a wonderful thing to be introduced as the ambassador of such a country. But here we are, we have the glory of representing the kingdom that rules over all, the kingdom by which all things came into existence.

We are representing the king of glory, we are representing the Lord of Lords, we are representing the maker and the owner of all things, the possessor of all things visible and invisible. He who owns all the thrones and the dominions and the principalities and the powers, he who governs the beginning and the end, and who has himself no beginning and no end, we are his ambassadors. Where we stand, we are standing in his name.

There can't be any greater glory than that, the glory of living to manifest God, living to cause his kingdom to be established, living for his will to be done, as it is done in the headquarter in heaven. And to step into the glory is what this verse, the first verse began to speak about. How do you step into the glory? We recall the Bible said for us to step into the glory and begin to enjoy a service that is worthy of God, a service that he can himself commend, a service that is reasonable, a service that is a service worthy of the king of kings, an acceptable and a reasonable service.

How do you step into it? How will your life begin to glorify God? How will you begin to live your life practically day by day in a victorious manner and be pleasing God with every decision you take, be pleasing God with every action, with every word you speak, be glorifying God? Here is the solution. Several of you who came to Christ in the course of this meeting or not too long ago, you are probably even wondering, will I stand? I know when I go back there, my friends, we start laughing and laughing at me and making just even of the decision that I have taken, will I be able to make it? And will my life actually live to glorify God? Now, it's not for you to be struggling with how you will arrange it. It is already arranged.

Your life will glorify God. You will also go in this your might that God is giving you in this meeting and you will bring down whatever be the media nights that were frustrating not only yourself but everybody around you. You'll be a solution even to those friends whom you are fearing will make just of you.

They are going to benefit from this might you'll be going with. Now, but God has arranged how it will work out. And as we were listening all through the day, the first step to take is to decide to be all and all out and out for God.

To decide that you are not going to plan to manage part of your life for anything else. To actually sell yourself out to the Lord. The Bible said that if we decide to love our lives and try to perhaps make something out of our lives for ourselves, we will simply be losing the life.

A life that if we invested, we cannot forever finish enjoying the dividends. A life that if you allowed it to be lost into God's own hand and into his own purpose. First, he will cost you to be a wonder here on earth.

And in heaven, you'll be enjoying the glory of the life of Christ that you will receive in exchange forever and ever and ever. And so, I realized the Bible said, therefore, now as far as you have already come with as much as you have heard and you have understood and particularly with the many decisions that you may already have taken that you want to belong to God. And you have decided to hand over your life to him.

You have decided that he should be the life in you. You have decided that it should no longer be you that is operating in this body, but it should be Christ that is alive in you. And that you will no longer live unto yourselves.

You will live unto him who died for you and rose again. Now, therefore, the Bible said, I am asking you to do one thing this evening as we take this next necessary steps to release ourselves completely to be wholly available unto the Lord. The Bible said, I beseech you, therefore, my brothers, my sisters, by the mercies of God, I'm using all the mercies God mobilized in order to send Jesus to make provision for you to become also a child of God.

I am using appealing to all of his love and kindness that pushed him to be able to so release his son into all that he needed to pass through in order to deliver us. To the extent that he who knew no sin, he decided that he should be made sin for our own benefit so that we can become the righteousness of his in Christ. He who in mercy even brought us to this cycle in that onsite meeting where you are, his mercy brought you.

It was because God was merciful that you are here. It is because he's even merciful that you are not already dead. The world is becoming more and more infested with all manner of tragedies, man-made and natural tragedies that are killing people daily.

But why did he preserve you to come this far? It is because he chose to have mercy on you. Now, I beseech you by his mercies. If you've come this far, then you must prepare yourself to step into what he brought you for.

I beseech you, therefore, that you will present your body and I'm speaking to you as an individual now, as a brother, a young brother, a young sister, or perhaps one as old as myself, that you will present your body, a living sacrifice unto God, a sacrifice that is set apart for him, a sacrifice that you will not be again willing that anything should compromise it, that anything should try to claim any share of it, separated unto God, holy, so that it can be acceptable unto God as well. Now, very quickly I would like to say that whatever is not made completely, exclusively, solely available unto God is not yet ready and worthy of God. If it is not to be wholly his, then you are not yet his and you are not yet ready.

Maybe you are thinking about it, you are reflecting over it, and perhaps you are becoming persuaded, but you are not ready. When anyone is ready to be an instrument, a property that God himself can count upon, a life that would be acceptable for his own use, such a life must be separated unto God. Now, I am trusting God that we have dealt with issues of just living in immorality, living in all kinds of wickedness, like lying and stealing, or even robbing, or fighting, or quarreling, or killing.

I trust we are not now speaking about even idolatry, or speaking about belonging to a cult, or giving oneself to addictions that are ruling over our life. I believe you have taken the decision to step out of those things. Now, so what does this presenting yourself a living sacrifice unto God and the Bible is saying that is holy, meaning exclusively set apart for God, what exactly is God talking about? Now, the first thing he's talking about is what we read in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 15.

In 2 Corinthians 5, verse 15, the Bible said, Jesus, he gave his life for us, he died for us, to recruit us to become available unto God in the expectation that whoever benefits from this offer of salvation that he has given us, that none of us will again think of living for our own selves, that we should never henceforth live unto our own selves or for our own selves, but our lives we should know is consecrated now for Jesus. Now, why is that? It's because, first of all, actually the process of becoming saved by the sacrifice Jesus made begins with the end of the life we used to carry. So whoever we used to be must have been yielded to his death, must have been surrendered to experience death on the cross of Jesus and must have therefore been crucified with him.

That must have happened, first of all, before we are collecting the life of Christ to have new life in Jesus. Now, since we are dead and now the life we have is hid with Christ in God, since the one man died for us so that we all will know this death that will deliver us, we don't have our own life to live for here anymore. We have already crucified the life that was ours.

So which life am I carrying here? Which life are you carrying where you are? The life you are carrying, the life I'm carrying is Christ Jesus. And because the life is Jesus, we cannot live except for Jesus. It would be like denying or going back on our agreement to yield our life to death so that we can experience the life of Christ in his place.

If you are still hoping to live your life for yourself, it's like you are regretting the contract you signed. You want to go back on it where you handed over your life so that you can enjoy the life of Jesus. Now, but I don't believe any of you is there who is wishing to go back on such a profitable, beneficial, glorious contract, a contract in which all we lose is our worthless life and we gain everything that Jesus is, not just for now, but for all eternity.

I don't believe there's anybody who is cross-checking the possibility of again wishing he could live for himself because the self you wanted to live for is totally unprofitable to any of us. And it could never have brought us into any glory. It's Christ in us that is the hope of glory, not only in this life, but also in that which is to come.

So the first thing that we must separate our lives from and make that a very deliberate position that we have taken, a deliberate attitude and a deliberate, you know, focus of life. Let it define who we are and what we live for is to be separated from living for ourselves, to be separated from any imagination that we owe ourselves the duty of pleasing ourselves. It was in Romans chapter 8 and verse 13, I believe that the Bible said that we don't owe any obligation to our own flesh.

That was verse 12. Therefore, brethren, we are not debtors. We are debtors, but never to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

We are only debtors to Jesus. We owe him our whole life. We owe him our love.

We owe him our total loyalty. So to wish you could do anything for yourself is backsliding. It's deciding to step back from your commitment to live for God, your commitment to please him, your commitment to be the kind of life in which he can operate to glorify himself.

The first thing we must deliberately decide that we are no longer going to be loyal to is our own very self, our flesh, as it is often also called. Now, if you step into discipleship relationship, you will have opportunity of learning and being guided practically how to beware of the usurping of the flesh, how to beware of the subtle temptations of the enemy to make us to soften towards the flesh. You will come to know how to live your life consciously resisting to fall again into the bondage of the flesh.

So in discipleship, you are secured from again working in a manner as to soften towards the flesh and to decide to, for any reason, serve his own purpose. Knowing this, that God abhors betrayal of trust. One area in which we betray God's trust is when, while he recruited us and we gave impression as if we have decided to be wholly his.

If for any reason, we start doing anything that we are doing for our own selves. But one of the questions to answer immediately and quickly is that, so how do you survive when you are no longer to concern yourself with yourself? Now, let me advise you to pick the book that we have just announced. I have almost read through most of it and I can recommend it for you to be able to see in a practical way how you can walk, completely surrender to do what God wants, to be available to serve his purpose and his purpose only and it will actually be wisdom for you.

You will be in safer hands now but as you read such practical accounts, the story of my life that we have just announced, you are going to be touching not just that the Bible says but here is where it is applied and here is the evidence of it. Several of us can bear our brother witness and can testify behind him of our own lives that God is able to keep any life that wholly yields to him better than anybody could have imagined able to keep himself and to quickly tell you also that when you come to him the basis of agreement is for you to mind his business then he will mind your business and when you agree and you are practically committed to it and you are ready to wait on God to help you to live only for him you will be overwhelmed very soon with all that God will do for you beyond what any human on earth would have been able to so well arrange for his life here on earth. You will just simply be covered on all angles and on all ends.

He is faithful now but the question is will you be faithful? To be faithful you will need to say no to your flesh no to serving self no to worry about your own keeping your own survivor your own upkeep your tomorrow worry about how you can become something in this life. What can be bigger to become than to become a life that is carrying God himself? Can you be bigger than God? Can you be bigger than a life whose very intimate and intrinsic being is actually God at work in a physical being and this is what he offers us. Please don't let the concern of who you will become what you will eat what you will wear what you will drink to be a distraction unto you.

Now we are not going to press that so much more knowing we have a very short time but please note that Jesus in Matthew chapter 6 beginning at verse 24 right down to verse 31 in Matthew chapter 6 he made it so clear that he came and understood very well and if you read it even all the way to verse 34 he understood it very clearly that man was not right from the beginning expected to worry about living Oh how wonderful the brothers we have been bringing who have proved this and are testifying from various angles of professions of social life from various locations around the world and they are announcing to us that it is actually an abuse of your life if you say you are in Christ and you are living to earn a living you actually have really insulted the life you carry no when you are now won over, reconciled again to God redeemed by the blood of Jesus it is so that your own living will be earned by God and yet you will be very hard working very active whatever your hands find to do you are doing with all your might but you are knowing this that you are doing this so that in your day-to-day going out and coming in in your day-to-day activity that God might be glorified that man in it will see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven it is not so that you can survive it is God who will arrange what you should eat what you should wear what you should put on now self should not claim that you owe him any duty to run around for him please take this decision you can't really be available for God if you are planning to be partly available for self now I am shocked by the instruction Jesus brought in Matthew chapter 6 when he said in caring about what your own self would have been requesting as a basic human need he said you are serving mammon that to have two gods is to worry about your own life this is a truth I want you to allow to sink into your soul that look, if you will be available unto God the first thing to know is that watching over yourself your security watching over your provisions nourishing your life arranging how you will go forward in life tomorrow ceases to be your business it becomes God's exclusive business it's on his own exclusive list in our constitution in heaven and it's only him that operates that particular section of the constitution so when you delve into it you are doubting his faithfulness you are actually rebelling against his own commitment you are beginning to query that he means what he says it's an insult yesterday we saw that that amounts actually to your being a rebel to your deciding to be his enemy may none of us choose to be enemies of God again we've come through that before but it's enough so note this that God will have each and every one of us to be separated from ourselves but number two before we come on to praying as we again return back to that Romans chapter 12 in verse 2 the Bible said be not conformed to this world now I want you to note particularly I have also been young at least before I came to this age of over 60 I am aware that in youth you feel so bad when they tell you you are a Jew guy when they tell you you are an odd man out that you are unfashionable when they tell you you are old school when they tell you you are not keeping pace with your generation when they tell you that you are not conforming to your world and yet to be effective and to express God's glory and to enjoy life in Christ that's one decision each of us must take with all of our hearts never to be conformed to this world my brother, my sister I want you to decide that it was correct for you not to be conforming to the world not to be conforming to the way the world wants people to dress not to be conforming to the way the world is saying unless you have money you don't actually have security in life the way the world is saying that if you are not belonging to some of the new cults that don't look so cultist the cults of perhaps human rights is a cult that is of the tradition of this world that does not come from God at the right of a man the whole duty of man the expectation of a human being is to fear God and to obey his commandments the enjoyment of a man, the liberty in the life of a man in fact wisdom for a man begins with fearing God but when the right of a human being the liberty of a human being is being defined to be anything else don't conform to this world will you take a decision today that you don't owe the world any any any resemblance to any of his own ideals you don't owe the world any duty to conform to it you have no obligation to the world to conform to it now when I was yet growing up as a child of God in the 70's and I I stumbled on on Titus chapter 2 you know that spoke from verse 11 how the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared unto all men, how it teaches us to say no to all unrighteousness and to all ungodliness and to operate righteously and godly in this present world and I came down to verse 14 that he died for us so that he will reserve unto himself a peculiar people who are zealous of good works well, one interpretation of that peculiar, the word peculiar is that we are his own, exclusively his, but for me, as a youth at the time, it was very helpful to discover that it was normal for me if I am saved, and if the grace of God is doing his correct work in my life to be peculiar so when the unbelievers on campus are trying to make jest of me that I'm not wearing what we used to wear then, I won't describe it for you, of course it keeps changing, and that I'm not making my hair like they are making at the time and I remember that but, it was normal for me to be peculiar you know, for me, that word peculiar meant my not conforming was actually normal, in fact, if I were conforming, I should start asking myself if I'm doing well as we would be praying I just want you to decide this evening that you will be out or out for God if you are not 100% out for God you are not out for him yet, he will still be waiting now, if you are seeking him, but you are not yet ready to seek him with your whole heart you can't find him God is very loving, God is very merciful, very gracious, but he's not cheap even ordinary gold nobody will permit you to go picking it about on the street as cheap as gold is compared to God now, so when you want to really matter in the hand of God you will need to decide to invest your all in him why do people seek to conform to the world? they think it's by conforming that they will become achievers, it's by conforming that they will make it, it's by conforming that they will earn a good living, it's by conforming that they will actually be a success they will make a good success of their lives, now but the point is you as a young person don't permit yourself to be deceived that if you don't conform to the world you won't become a professor that if you don't conform to the world you won't become a distinguished researcher that if you don't conform to the world you won't become a high ranking banker or somebody that is respected in the financial sector that if you don't conform to the world you can't succeed in politics all of these are lies of the enemy and I want you to know actually when God has lit your life as he has done and he will yet be doing in this meeting he prepares the lamp stand he prepares the uplifted platform where he will place you you don't need to worry about what you will become you will be shocked to find out if you want to be shocked unnecessarily that suddenly you will wake up and discover you are where God said he will bring you you will find he will arrange it all and simply lead you into it but your own business is to be a living sacrifice unto him, is to decide that all your life is sacrificed to exist only for God the detailed explanation of some of these things may come to us later but for tonight because our night is fast spent I would like us to pray and I want to invite you to stand wherever you are because you need to take a decision as we are praying would you want to be wholly available unto God do you want to be released from the claim of self upon you, do you want to be released from the claim of the world that you belong to it and that you should conform to it and that you should follow the things they are doing that are pursuing the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and at the end you will perish with the world, would you like to take a decision to say I'm not available any longer the person I used to be that was of this world is dead, the person I used to be that was born to serve self is dead, today I am carrying Jesus, the hope of glory I'm carrying the image of the invisible God and my duty my only ambition now is for me to live is Christ and the day I have finished my work I'm entering straight into glory into the full blown expression of all that the Father has prepared for me in Christ, can you take that decision personally, can you take a minute to talk to God about your own life, were there areas in which you were still considering yourself indebted to yourself, as if you need to be careful how your life is going and yet you wanted your life to be in the hand of God can you repent, repent of where quietly you are arranging certain things that God didn't send you, would you like to pray and say Lord deliver me from the bondage of self today, so that I can be wholly available unto you would you like to also pray and release your life now why can you release your life, because the cross of Christ has released you already, it's for you to arise, to lay claim on the provision and to ask that God will make it good in your life so it shall come to pass would you like to tell God, please today I have decided, I don't owe any apologies to the world, the dress you give me, if it covers my nakedness very well it is glorifying you, I will wash and iron it and come out neat but not worrying about what others wear, the bicycle you gave me to be using to carry you around to preach I won't envy anybody's four wheel drive anybody's flashy car anybody's helicopter or private jet I will be content with the things I have because I don't have any interest in whatever the world has to offer I won't worry again about what I will become in life, I want my whole life to be managed by you, I am just living to be available to you a living sacrifice from today, can you enter into that agreement with God and if you are entering into the agreement can you step out to the altar to say Lord from today you are in control, you are the manager you are the administrator you are in charge you are my physician you are my shepherd you are my protector, you are my guide, you are my teacher you will provide you will protect you will also lead my life as the need will arise day by day, but me I hand myself over, who is walking to the front now and kneeling down in that front to say Lord, even if others did not understand I could hear you clearly and I'm deciding that from today I'm no longer available, not even for myself and not for anyone else but for you if it's not serving your purpose then actually it does not make sense to me again, for for me to live it must be Christ expressing himself, achieving his purpose, accomplishing his own goal and doing what pleases him Lord, I want to hand my life over to him, you are yet to step out, can you do that very quickly to join the others so that we can pray on this, you are taking a decision now to say from now forward I can no longer live for my own self I want you O God to follow this through give my heart the understanding of it, help me O God that I will never worry for myself knowing you can do better now, I will let you handle everything concerning me, I want to taste O brethren and see that the Lord is good, that we are talking about, can you step out and say Lord I'm stepping out of my old position where I used to serve you small and serve myself small where I used to obey you small and obey the world small so that there will be no trouble, no I am ready for any trouble knowing that you are here to keep me, I am ready for any difficulty knowing that you are going to watch over me and you are going to see to it that all will go well, Lord send us this help from above to the praise of your glory, we thank you because this you will do, as you are kneeling there I want you to talk to God one final time and say Lord I can't rise from here to run my own life again I can't rise from here to worry about what anybody thinks about me anymore I will only be concerned about what you think about what you say and about what you will have me to do, I will never again fear the fear of the world, I will never again be worried about what worries people I will sanctify you in my heart, you will be my only fear my only dread from now forward, for my whole life is managed in your hand from now thank you for accepting the life that song said when you offer your life a living sacrifice the fire will fall, can you tell God let the fire fall let the fire fall to consume me for yourself let there be evidence even in my heart that you have accepted the offering and that the fire that is consuming it is coming from heaven, it's not kindled by a human being oh Lord answer our cry now, oh Lord show us mercy now, thank you for you will do beyond all that we could ask or imagine now shall we pray as we speak to you we are speaking to you on behalf of us all, not just those that have walked forward to the altar, we are saying if our service can only be reasonable when nothing else is encroaching upon our lives when there is no other master that is claiming right over us, when not even our own self is having any share of our life anymore if our service can only be reasonable to the point we can even discern your will we can know that once you have declared your will we are not looking for anything else, that's what is good that's what is acceptable and that is what is perfect there can't be any improvement on it but to get here you said we must release ourselves unto you to be a living sacrifice that whatever we are doing in life, it should be a sacrifice unto you, you should be the only one consuming it, the only person who is gathering the profit of it, there should be nothing and no one else that is the beneficiary on the side, Lord we have come and we are asking that not only for those that are nearly in front, but the rest of us, including myself so let it be with each one of our lives for the time has come when oh God you must arise, when you must receive the due of those that are young as myself in this regard and when you can again reign and cause that your glory will shine forth in all the earth we release each of our lives we release even them afresh, even those of us that have released it before, over and over again, please look us over and check whatever may be polluting or corrupting the life that it was not acceptable unto you in any area whatsoever please as we share this fellowship let the blood of Jesus Christ, your own son, cleanse us, purify us from every impurity, from every imperfection, from every sin from everything that could be an offense unto you we commend our brethren particularly who are kneeling now into your hand our leaders on site are going to yet speak with them to encourage them, to guide them, and maybe even put some of the books we have talked about in their hand, we are asking that this decision they have taken, it shall be permanent, and they will be going forward ever, they will never know backsliding and they will never know growing cold in their release to live for you all the days of their lives, until it pleases you to call them home because their own work upon the earth is accomplished thank you because this you will do to the praise of your glory to you be glory and honor forever and ever, for in Jesus name we have prayed, Amen