Proverbs 26:20 (NLT) Fire goes out without wood
God will send the fire, but you need to put wood on the fire. The wood of prayer, the wood of fasting, the wood of praise, the wood of worship, the wood of reading the Bible, the wood of signs and wonders.
Leviticus 6:13 (NIV) The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously; it must not go out.
1 Thessalonians 5:19 (AMP) Do not quench [subdue, or be unresponsive to the working and guidance of] the [Holy] Spirit.
There is an old song written in 1912 by Lelia N. Morris that we sang when I was still boy:
Send a new touch of fire on our souls, Lord,
Send it now my Lord, send it now, Lord;
Touch my lips today with the living coals,
Send a new touch of fire on our souls.
We need the tongues of fire.
Isaiah 6:6 (MSG) Then one of the angel-seraphs flew to me. He held a live coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with the coal and said, “Look. This coal has touched your lips. Gone your guilt, your sins wiped out.” And then I heard the voice of the Master: “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” I spoke up, “I’ll go. Send me!”
Acts 2:3-4 (NLT) Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them. And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
Jeremiah 5:14 (AMP) Therefore, thus says the LORD God of hosts, “Because you [people] have spoken this word, Behold, *I am making My words a fire in your mouth *[Jeremiah] And this people wood, and My words will consume them.
Wow, what a powerful word, the words of God in our mouth is fire. Death and life is our words. Let’s make that we speak life today. Speak life into your situation, your word is like fire.
I conclude with James 3:1-12 (MSG) Don’t be in any rush to become a teacher, my friends. Teaching is highly responsible work. Teachers are held to the strictest standards. And none of us is perfectly qualified. We get it wrong nearly every time we open our mouths. If you could find someone whose speech was perfectly true, you’d have a perfect person, in perfect control of life. A bit in the mouth of a horse controls the whole horse. A small rudder on a huge ship in the hands of a skilled captain sets a course in the face of the strongest winds. A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it! It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your mouth can do that. By our speech we can ruin the world, turn harmony to chaos, throw mud on a reputation, send the whole world up in smoke and go up in smoke with it, smoke right from the pit of hell. This is scary: You can tame a tiger, but you can’t tame a tongue—it’s never been done. The tongue runs wild, a wanton killer. With our tongues we bless God our Father; with the same tongues we curse the very men and women he made in his image. Curses and blessings out of the same mouth! My friends, this can’t go on. A spring doesn’t gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? Apple trees don’t bear strawberries, do they? Raspberry bushes don’t bear apples, do they? You’re not going to dip into a polluted mud hole and get a cup of clear, cool water, are you?