Day 37 - The Fire and the Fury

By Dave Csinsi

Matt 15:29-31 (The Message)_"After Jesus returned, he walked along Lake Galilee and then climbed a mountain and took his place, ready to receive visitors. They came, tons of them, bringing along the paraplegic, the blind, the maimed, the mute—all sorts of people in need—and more or less threw them down at Jesus' feet to see what he would do with them. He healed them. When the people saw the mutes speaking, the maimed healthy, the paraplegics walking around, the blind looking around, they were astonished and let everyone know that God was blazingly alive among them."

Here we are, ready God. Ready to receive the fire you are going to send down. Ready to make an impact in this world through your Spirit and through your message of Grace. Here we are to make the only Living God known. Here we are to break the chains of injustice, to comfort those who mourn, to give beauty for ashes and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

We are ready now. To proclaim your love over the people of Boston. To be Jesus in the eyes of those who need Him. To be light to those in darkness. To be love and peace to those in desperate confusion. To follow you where you're leading and to not back down when we are opposed.

We are an incandescent people. A people ablaze with the eternal fire of your Holy life. We are a brilliant, shimmering beacon to those in the valley of despair. We are your peace to those wrestling with demonic forces. We are your conduit for life to flow through the lungs of the dead.

There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death. There is a cry ringing out from Boston from the tired and weak, from the homeless and hungry, from the lost and desperate. The punishment that was upon us was placed upon Jesus. The judgment that was meant for us has been transferred to Jesus. The wrath and fury of your anger has been shielded by Grace. Jesus is our wall. He took on his shoulders and back the rebellion and iniquity of us all.

And now is the time. Now is the day. Now is the hour. Now is the second when your Kingdom will come, your will will be done, ON EARTH as it is in HEAVEN. The hour has come. You, God, are preparing a mighty wind and a small spark to set this dry tinder alight. The vortex of your fire will engulf the city of Boston in a flame of Holy Fire.

No one that passes Ruggles Baptist church will be able to pass without looking inside. No one that hears the praises of your people will be able to walk away from the cacophony of sound. No one who lives within 5 miles will not hear of the fire that fell. The explosion of your glory will echo for generations.

And there will be peace. Peace to the restless, hope for the hopeless, justice for the unjustified, grace for the sick, mercy for the stagnant, pouring out for the empty, quiet for the burdened.

And in your house your priests will bring an end to the reign of Satan. In your house there will be an end to the will of others. In your house there will be no more money changing, no more thievery, no more impurity. Your people will be pure. Your bride will be resplendent with purity in the light of your gaze.

Amen.