By Fire by Wanda J. Burnside

Soul SISTAHS Café of Reading & Poetry

B By y F FIIR RE E… …!!

BY Wanda J. Burnside, Café’ Administrator

Are you at a point in your life where all you seem to have are disappointments, frustrations and suffering? Does it seem like no matter how hard you try, things just don’t turn out the way that you feel they should? You prayed and prayed, but it seems like one thing after another just keeps happening to you.

You cried out to the Lord, “Why is this and that happening to me? I am seeking Your face Father! What am I to do? Things are so painful in my life. Lord, do you hear my cry? Do You care that I am going through one thing then another?”

God is there! He hears your cry. Listen, listen to what He has to say. Open your heart. Wait on Him.

Yes, you are in the fire. Thus, saith the Lord:

“I am perfecting you. I am making you into what you must be to succeed and survive in this life.

I am changing you. I am taking out all that is not pure and right. I want you to be holy.

I want you to be “wholly” and completely Mine. I want you to function and operate as I have made you to be.

You feel the heat of the fire. You are in the process of being changed. I have chosen you. I picked you up and brought you near the fire to be changed and purified of this world. I don’t want worldly ways in your life. I don’t want the world to come into your life and contaminate you. There must not be pollution in your spirit. You hear the crackling of the fire. This is the trouble and the problems that seemed to just pop up in your life. They are now being dealt with by the flames of My Holy fire. They are like wood. I will handle them. It is now time to come closer to the fire. I have selected you. I picked you. I have carried you to this place. I have brought you closer. You are getting closer to Me.

I need you! I want to use you. I have set you aside for My use and service. I have called you. Just like My children, the Israelites, who traveled by fire, you will too. It will be light to your path and warmth to your heart.

I send the fire! I am the Master of the fire! I control its temperature. I set the gauge. I control it all. You will not burn or be consumed. I need you to be perfected for My service.

I need a pure heart. I want a humble spirit. I must dwell in a clean temple. You are a holy temple. My Spirit will clean this temple! I want your life in order. I dwell in order! I deserve praise for I will make your life free from bondage. The ropes of bondage will burn off by My fire. Worship Me! “

Wanda J. Burnside is a contributing author and poet in three major nationally featured books: Wounded by Words, Too Soon to Say Goodbye and SistahFaith: Real Stories of Pain, Truth and Triumph! She is also the Founder and President of Write the Vision Ministries and Media Productions International. For more details, visit her bookstore. Click here