Burning With the Holy Spirit Fire - Reinhard Bonnke — From the Pulpit & Classic Sermons

I just first of all would like to share a little bit about our own background and then I've got a short word on my heart here for this afternoon. You know, I'm by nationality a German and I was born to Pentecostal parents.

My father was a pastor, so I came to know the gospel at a very early age. I received Jesus as my savior when I was a boy of nine. Jesus called me to one day preach the gospel in Africa when I was only 10 and it was so powerful and so clear I've never been able to doubt that call.

A Childhood Calling to Preach the Gospel

When I was 11, Jesus baptized me with the power of the Holy Spirit and that carried me through my teenage years and you know, I couldn't wait to be old enough to be accepted at Bible college and ever since I've been preaching the gospel.

The day I would no more preach the gospel, I think I would die of starvation because I'm not a mechanic, I don't know how to repair cars and I don't know how to bake bread. I know nothing. I just preach the gospel.

Praise God. I think if I should sum it up right at the beginning, my wife and I went to a small country in Africa called Lesotho. It was a very, very tough time. Seven years of hard work. I would say hard labor.

We labored for the Lord, the true sense of the word. I mean it was hard work and we saw little results. I had hired a little office somewhere there just for about $30 a month and that was a lot of money for me because that was about my whole salary for the whole month and it was tough and then one day I had to pay the rent for that office, that church office and I didn't have the money to pay the rent and the whole day I was crying to God and I said, Lord I need $30, I need $30, I need $30 before five o 'clock this evening and the evening came but the money didn't.

So I was upset and I said I was worried I might lose the office and so on and so on and I was walking from the office to the house not far away which we had rented there as a family and as I was walking on the street suddenly the power of the Holy Spirit came upon me and I clearly, clearly heard the voice of the Lord speaking in my heart saying, do you want me to give you one million dollars?

It nearly blew my mind. One million dollars for a few seconds it raced through my mind what I couldn't do for Jesus with one million dollars and I thought I could bombard the whole world with the gospel if I had one million dollars.

Today I know better but then I thought so and then all of a sudden I had a second thought and it is, it gripped me, it stirred me. I'm not a weepy man at all but I stood there on the street and tears came out of my eyes and I lifted my hands up.

I didn't care about the people that passed me and I cried to God and I said no Lord, I'm not asking for one million dollars, I'm asking for much more. I said Lord don't give me one million dollars, give me one million souls.

A Hunger for Souls Rather Than Money

I said Lord one million souls, give me one million souls. That moment the Holy Spirit whispered words into my heart. I had never heard, I had never read, it was brand new but ever since it has characterized my whole life and ministry and this is what the Holy Spirit said, you will plunder hell.

Hallelujah and I latched onto that. I grabbed it. I said Lord this is true. I want to see hell empty and I want to see heaven full in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah, glory to God, glory to God, glory to God.

That day God put a hunger into my spirit, a hunger for souls. I want to see souls saved. That's my whole desire. I don't want gold and I don't want silver although we do need finances. I want to see souls saved.

I want to do as much harm and damage to the devil as I possibly can. Jesus crushed the head of the serpent. Jesus died for no other reason but to seek and to save the lost, not to provide careers for the clergy.

He died to save the lost. Amen. Sometimes certain people come to me and they say, they say what do you think of that evangelist trying to pit me against some evangelist? What about that evangelist? I said listen, when it comes to evangelism I have no competitor.

I only, I only have colleagues and I draw my hat to anyone who wins one soul for Jesus. Amen. And then shortly after that in a vision God showed me the continent of Africa getting washed in the blood of Jesus.

The whole continent, every nation. I tell you when I now get into those nations where I had never set foot in, I always enter those nations and I said this was one of them. I saw it already washed in the blood of Jesus.

I believe in the spiritual world it's already an accomplished fact. When God says something he is the fulfiller of his own word and he gives us the privilege to be involved in it. Isn't that so? He gives it to you and he gives it to me and he gives it to us all.

Then God opened doors. We saw his mighty powers spring into action. We saw whole nations shaken under the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel is a public issue in Africa. Amen. And millions upon millions of precious souls are turning to Jesus Christ as their savior.

This is absolutely fantastic. Well, Ron said it already. When it comes to figures I'm very very careful because I believe that exaggeration is another form of lying. And when we speak of figures, we have educated figures.

We do proper counting. We count the heads and not the fingers. All right? Some even count the toes. But a person is a person. We give no glory to God if we speak of millions and they aren't. But the fact is, the fact is that by the grace of God I've been able to lead millions and millions and millions of people to Jesus Christ.

Calling on the Name of the Lord

He who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Somebody said to me, everybody who lifts his hand and everybody who prays the sinner's prayer surely is not born again or is not a Christian. Well, I said, you know what I said?

I said, I also know that. But one thing I is one thing is sure. If it is true what the Bible says, and I'm sure that it is true, that whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, then I must do something right.

I must do something right. And when you preach the gospel and you invite people to receive this wonderful Jesus and you lead them in prayer to the Lord and they call upon the name of the Lord, something is happening in the invisible world.

I am absolutely certain. Amen. Hallelujah. You know, an evangelist is somebody with an undivided mind. It's just all always one thing, one thing, one thing. And that's what burns in my spirit day and night.

This our generation must hear. I was on a talk show here somewhere in the United States. And when I arrived there, of course, I didn't know what the theme was or nothing. When I arrived there, they said, today we are going to solve some deep theological problems.

It was a controversial issue. And thank God Reinhardt is here. And now we are going to solve all these theological problems. When I heard that, I thought, oh Lord, what did I get into here? I'm an evangelist.

I'm not a professor. Anyway, and they were talking and talking and talking. And then they gave the microphone to me. And then I said, you know, I want to say something. Before I say something about the subject, let me say something else.

I'm an evangelist. And I said, I have decided before God that I will only start splitting hair after the last chain is broken. And I'm in the business of breaking chains, not splitting hair. Amen. And I tell you, we are confronted with the greatest emergency this world has ever seen.

The Gospel as a Lifeline to the Lost

We are in the midst of people who are eternally lost unless somebody throws their lifeline to them. And the preaching of the gospel is the throwing out of the lifeline. An unpreached gospel is no gospel at all.

Why not? Because an unpreached gospel helps nobody. God has decided that the gospel shall be preached and then it becomes effective. Amen. That was the end of the theological discussion there. And we only talked about what God is doing and about winning souls.

Last year in February, we were in the Republic of Central African Republic, a capital called Bangui. And I was so amazed when I arrived at the airport, you know, it was a big, big reception there. Government was there.

The president sent his Mercedes limousine with driver for me and with the police outriders. It was terrific. I enjoy it. You know, as I said, VIP, very important peanut. And, and there was national television and they interviewed me.

They wanted to interview me. May we ask some questions? I said, yes. And the first question was this. They said, do you believe in women preaching the gospel? Now that was national television. But wow, why do they, I just thought, why did they ask that question?

And then I knew, of course, was to set up thing. She was already there ahead of time and she belongs to our team and she's preaching like crazy and they never saw a woman preach. So do you believe for, for, for women to preach?

I said, Lord, what must I say? That moment, the Holy Spirit spoke to me. You know, he's my secret weapon. And I said, I let you, I said, this is the answer to your question. I said, you know, we are a group of evangelists.

And I said, you know, if I was a man drowning in the river, I wouldn't care whether a man or a woman throws the lifeline to me. As long as I get the lifeline. Amen. Hallelujah. Is it not true? Some people keep on forever picking on the finer points and they forget that the people are going to hell in the meantime.

Out the lifeline, man or woman, boy or girl, throw out the lifeline in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. As I said, we are seeing nations shaking. We went to Kenya. We had such a difficult time to enter Kenya, believe it or not.

I thought it would be the easiest country and it was the most difficult. For two years we tried to get into Kenya and somehow it was blocked. We could not establish ourselves there. The government would not allow us in.

And then I said, well, let's go in under the wings of somebody else. And then once we have had one crusade, everything will be fine. And so it was. We went right to Nairobi Uhuru Park. That's the national sanctuary.

You can say, you know, Freedom Park. It means that's where all the political rallies are. And we were given that very spot for our crusade to 180 ,000 people in a single service. You must see the picture.

It was awesome. One afternoon I was praying in my hotel when the phone rang and my crusade director, he said, Reinhardt, we had a call from the president's office this afternoon. President Moy is going to attend the meeting.

I said, that's wonderful. But remember, we haven't got chairs. He said, no, no, the president will bring his own chair. I said, when is he coming? He said, in two hours time at five o 'clock he's coming.

Wow. I thought this is wonderful. Five o 'clock I was there and there comes the whole, the whole convoy, the presidential convoy. The chairs, everything was already organized under the platform there.

I mean, just in front of the platform downstairs with all his cabinet ministers and security and the people behind. So I stood up and I just, I prayed when I sat on the platform. I said, Lord, the president is here.

What must I preach? Something special? The Lord said, no, preach the gospel as always. And I stood up and I just welcomed the president and then I turned to the Bible and I started to preach. And when I made the call, some of the government ministers received Jesus as their Savior.

The next day I was called to the presidential, uh, uh, uh, uh, state house, the state house. The president received me there. What a fine man. And, uh, I asked him to allow us to register our ministry in his country was granted instantly.

And he said to me, Reverend Ponke, I am going to church many times, but yesterday I was absolutely sure it was the first time the preacher didn't change his sermon. He said that, and he was so blessed.

You know, he said, I have decided that all further crusade meetings that you are taking here at Uhuru Park are going to be aired live on all radio channels and television channels across the whole of Kenya.

Now, wonderful. And the whole country began to really felt the impact of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I, we, we, we, I preached my messages of salvation. We preached on divine healing. We preached on the baptism in the Holy Spirit, all life on the air.

It was absolutely terrific. The miracles we heard afterwards were absolutely incredible. Even drunks in bars received healing. There was a cripple in a bar. They were watching on television. They were watching on television and there was one crippled just drinking his, his beer.

And then I came to the point at the end and I said, if you put your trust in Jesus now, wherever you are, Jesus is going to heal you. Put your hand on the sick part of your body. And the other drunks said to that crippled drunk, do what the preacher told you.

And that crippled drunk, he put his hand on his crippled leg. And when the prayer rung out, the power of God knocked that man off his stool and he was healed. Isn't that amazing? The mercy of God is inexplicable.

It's inexplicable. What a mighty God we serve. And so country after country unlocked and opened. We've seen up to 500 ,000 people in a single service. It was rush hour to the meeting, rush hour from the meeting.

It was awesome. 25 acres of human beings pushed together, shoulder to shoulder. Our crusade lights only lit out half of the crowd. The other stood in the darkness. I tell you, God wants to do great things.

And I say it again, I don't want to play with marbles when God wants mountains to be moved. Jesus didn't die for small things. Jesus died for great things. He is the great I am, the everlasting father, the Prince of Peace.

Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. I have the privilege to lead presidents to the Lord. I have the privilege to preach in houses of parliament. That's a special joy. I tell you, that's a wonderful joy.

The Gospel Reaches Presidents and Nations

When in Togo, that was absolutely fabulous. I think I can just share that with you here briefly. That was now almost two years ago. Togo is a West African country, the capital is Lomi. I have never had a crusade there before at all.

But the gospel struck that nation. It was during the Gulf War, during the Gulf War. The gospel struck that nation like lightning with such force and power. Lomi has 400 ,000 inhabitants. We had over 200 ,000 in a single service, in a single service.

And the people were coming and God was saving and the Lord was healing the sick. It was absolutely terrific. Then I had a courtesy visit with the president. I'm not a politician. I don't discuss politics with politicians.

When they invite me, we talk about something else. And I went out, it was just a courtesy call and I shook hands with him. He was very nice. And before I left, I asked whether he would allow me to pray.

I prayed and I thought that's the end of the courtesy visit. Dead official. Next day, I received a call from the president at seven o 'clock in the morning. I wasn't altogether awake yet, you know, because we've got night shift when our crusades are running.

And I was asked to come for a dinner to the president's palace. I said, yes, I'm coming. So Peter Vandenberg and I and some others went and I was amazed. It was a banquet, a state banquet, absolutely fabulous, absolutely fabulous.

I think they had flown in the food from Paris. I was sat, was the guest of honor sitting right of the president. He had invited all the top politicians of the country and the top clergy. And there I sat as an evangelist.

And just to start off the conversation, I said, Mr. President, your excellency, as you, as you address them, I said, your excellency, I'm sorry that you, you weren't there in last night's meeting. He said, you know, I've got, he said to me, I've got a friend, an old man, he's blind for 10 years.

He said last night, his eyes were opened in your meeting. He said, in my extended family, there's a little girl. She was stone deaf since last night. She can hear perfectly. He was telling me what God was doing.

And he said to me, what, why has nobody ever told me that Jesus is doing miracles? The president called me again. We talked again. I prayed for his family, introduced his, his son to me. His, his eldest son was a wonderful time.

I led that president to the Lord and his wife as well. They prayed the sinner's prayer. It's no secret what absolutely glorious that was during the time of the Gulf War. I'll tell you, we watched in the evening slate, we watched the late night national news.

You know what happened? Of the 10 minutes national news, eight minutes were about the gospel campaign and the rest for the Gulf War. Isn't that wonderful? That's wonderful. Absolutely fantastic. To God be the glory.

To God be the glory. We have seen God shaking whole nations, shaking whole nations. And when it comes to the wonderful gospel of Jesus Christ, Satan has absolutely nothing to counter it. We are not down.

We are up. We are absolutely fantastic. I'm so sure of it. When I take the microphone in the crusades and I begin to preach the gospel, I can feel the love of God just flooding my spirit. And I can feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

And I know it's just striking everywhere and multitudes upon multitudes enter the valley of decision and decide for Jesus Christ. Amen. I'm hungry for souls. I hope you can sense that. I'm hungry for souls to be saved.

Africa shall be saved, but America shall just as well be saved and will be saved. I pray for divine visions to be given to all of you to see a blood-washed America. And I tell you, you will never be the same again.

You won't. Because all of a sudden you see that that what God is saying is possible. And it's not only possible, it's God's explicit will. And I get you going. I get you going. And it makes you inventive.

It makes you inventive. If you can't go around there, you will go there. If you can't go over it, you will go under it. But you won't give up. And that's actually the secret of my team. We are just not giving up.

Amen. But by might, it's such an immense privilege. I just want to conclude my report and then I start preaching. You know, by saying something that has stirred my heart from the book of Joshua. Joshua, of course, is all our favorite, isn't it?

It's terrific. It's wonderful. And you know, Joshua 1 .4, God gives the dimensions of the promised land. And he says from the desert to Lebanon. That's from south to north. And then it says from the great lake to the river Euphrates, not Jordan, to the river Euphrates shall be your limit.

Say amen. And then I wondered, Euphrates, Euphrates, Euphrates. This is a Euphrates promise. God gave a Euphrates promise. And I said to myself, now Euphrates is a mighty river. Just look at the map. It's a mighty river.

Now God didn't say which point of the Euphrates, the closest or the furthest. If Israel had taken the closest point of the Euphrates river, it would have meant about, let me just say about 300 ,000 square miles of territory.

But if God would have meant the furthest point of the river Euphrates, it would have been more or less 1 million square miles of territory. So the difference between 300 ,000 and 1 million was lying between, well, that was the scope God gave to Israel.

The Euphrates Promise and the Maximum of God's Mission

You know, I call that Euphrates promise the rubber band promise of God. It has a built-in elasticity. And the more I thought about it, the clearer it became to me that every single promise of God has a built-in elasticity.

There's always in every promise a minimum and a maximum. And the difference between minimum and maximum does not depend upon God. It depends you and me what we do with the promise of God. I'll tell you for whom the minimum is.

The minimum is for those men of God who are always very easily to be satisfied. They are satisfied with the small things. It's all they ever dreamt of. I don't belong to that lazy lot. The minimum is for the lazy ones.

But there is another breed of men and women they say, like Caleb, there is a maximum. And God's maximum is always for green women. They can never get enough. You give them as much as you want and they are still hungry.

And I believe God delights in those men and women who hunger for more. May God grant that we possess our Euphrates promise to the full. And I'll tell you what that Euphrates promise is for our time and generation.

Not just for Africa to be saved, but for Europe to be saved as well. And for America to be saved. And Latin America as a bonus on top of it. And the whole world shall be saved because Jesus died for the whole wide world.

That is the maximum. Amen. That is the maximum. The church of Jesus Christ cannot be compared with a pleasure boat. It cannot be compared with a pleasure boat. Entertainers are neither needed nor wanted.

The Church as a Lifeboat for the Lost

The church of Jesus Christ is not a pleasure boat. It's a life boat. A life boat. Every hand from the captain to the cook. Every hand is needed on deck for soul saving. A church that doesn't seek the lost is lost itself.

Oh may the Holy Spirit charge our spirits. That we get our focus right. And the master focus of scripture is the cross of Calvary and the reason of this cross. I do not view myself as having anything to do with entertainment.

I'm not traveling around to entertain people. I'm not interested. I tell you I'm not interested in compliments or in prices or in awards or what. I every time I preach I've just got one one one one aim.

I want hell empty and heaven full. And I want something to happen in that line in the name of Jesus. Because Jesus has come to destroy the works of the devil. From Calvary. From Calvary. Amen. Oh hallelujah.

Well if your thermometer if your thermometer works you will feel the heat. Amen. To do something more than we have ever done before. To win our generation for Jesus Christ. Let me just read one scripture if I may.

Baptism With the Holy Spirit and Fire

Matthew 3 11. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. But he who is coming after me is mightier than I John said. Whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

We know that scripture. Me personally. Not just a little decoration over a Christian's head. Necessity for an effective ministry. Do you agree with me? You see the gospel that God has given us is a fire gospel.

It has something to do with fire. It burns. I found an old testament illustration why we need the fire of the Holy Spirit. Just with a few sentences let me let me let me say that. In the book of Judges we read about Samson.

I've been puzzled about that scripture. I think it's chapter 15. Where Samson had an awful experience. He married a wonderful girl. The girl of his choice. And then one day when he came home to visit his wife.

His father-in-law. You should never speak bad about the mother-in-law. He is a very wicked father-in-law. His father-in-law said hey Samson. I thought you wouldn't come back. I've given your wife to another man.

So Samson was very very angry. And we can't blame him. And then Samson did something that can only be understood in in the times in those times. The bible says he went and he caught 300 foxes. Now that's miracle number one.

All right. And then it says that he took those foxes and tied tail to tail. Because every fox only has got one tail. I think he always joined two. And then Samson did a very cruel thing. He took a torch and he lit the tails of these fox pairs.

And let them run into the ripe harvest fields of the philistines. His enemies. And I think as the foxes run Samson might have just wondered and looked and watched and watched and watched. And wherever he watched he could exactly see where the foxes were running.

Everywhere. Everywhere they run. And all of a sudden my mind went back to Luke where Jesus said fire. And what did Jesus do? Jesus took his foxes. His disciples. He joined them together two by two. A divine flame of authority upon them.

And go preach the gospel. Raise the dead. Cast out devils. Heal the sick. Cleanse the lepers. Freely you have received. Freely give. And what did they do? They went. And what happened? The whole country started to burn.

The whole country started to burn. I asked myself one silly question. What would have happened if Samson had caught the foxes, tied their tails together and sent them off? What would have happened if Samson had forgotten to light the tails?

Huh? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And I I tremble to say this but I've seen it so many times. There are servants of God who work their fingers to the bone and nothing happens. Fire is missing. Therefore we need that flame of the Holy Spirit as a bare necessity in our lives and ministries to be effective in times like these.

And may God grant that truly we may be incendiarists of Jesus Christ. That's the only time when arson is not a crime. Hallelujah. And we are going to burn down the devil's harvest fields. We will burn down his harvest field of hate and of pornography through the fire of the Holy Spirit.

That is God's antidote to anything Satan wants to do and harm our nations and our young generation, our sons and our daughters. He is the baptizer with the Holy Ghost and with fire said John. Hallelujah.

I believe in the fire because I burn with it. Amen. Glory to God. Let me say just very briefly something about the purpose, the need of the fire. Now the purpose of the Holy Spirit is not just given to us for us to be happy and clappy.

You know, although that's also also true, thank God, we are not baptized into lemon juice. Amen. But that fire of the Holy Spirit is given for a very specific purpose, very specific purpose. Actually, I've said it already.

The Fire of the Holy Spirit Empowers Evangelism

Listen, sometimes I'm thinking of these old steam engines, these old locomotives of the railways. You would say railroads here, right? Railroads, you know, these old steam engines huffing and puffing with fire in their bellies.

Let me just draw a picture. When the fire is lit in one of those locomotives, and the head of steam is built up by the fire, and there's pressure on the boiler, the train driver can do two things. He can either pull the lever for the whistle, and when he does that, all the steam will go through the whistle.

The energy will go through the whistle, and it can be heard for miles around, a mighty, mighty sound. But the train driver can do something else. He can pull another lever, and then the steam, the energy, is directed to the pin.

All of a sudden, those big wheels start turning with much less fuss than the whistle makes, and the whole load is transported across the land. This is a picture why God is baptizing us with the Holy Ghost and with fire.

The whistle is important. I don't deny that, but if that is all, if that was all, it would be a great pity. Hear the word of the Lord. Pull the lever so that the fire, that the energy, this divine energy, the Holy Spirit power is directed to the pistons, and then we go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

That is the purpose for Pentecost. Hallelujah. Let's give a hand for Jesus. God hasn't made the sofa for us. He's made the road for us. The church is not a sit church. The church is a go church. Jesus said, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel.

Somebody has got to go. We need to go. Amen. And you know the nature of the fire of the Holy Spirit. Just look at the burning bush. I'm giving you pictures here today. Just look at the burning bush of Moses.

The Burning Bush: Fire Without Consuming the Servant

Some people say, I want, let me burn out for thee, dear Lord. I don't, I don't pray that because I don't want to be an ashid. The whole secret, the whole secret of the burning bush with Moses was that it burned, but it was not consumed.

Don't forget that. When the Holy Spirit comes upon man, they burn, but they're not consumed, and they keep on burning, and they're still not consumed. Oh, the nature of that fire is absolutely terrific.

It's absolutely terrific. I saw something in Acts 2 lately I had never seen before, and you know, I know that chapter by heart as you do. I saw, all of a sudden, I saw something I'd never seen before.

Acts 2, it says there, verse 3, let me read, and there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

There appeared to them divided tongues as of fire, and sat upon one, each one of them. Listen, I asked myself, what would have happened in Jerusalem if the fire of the Holy Spirit would have come in one big, massive, general flame, one big flame coming down on the upper room?

What would have happened? I think if that would have been the case, we would all have to make pilgrimages to Jerusalem, and then we would appear there maybe once a year around that mighty big flame, and we would start to warm us first from the front because it's so cold, and then from the back, and when you are warm from the back, you are getting cold again in the front, so you turn around again.

Listen, there didn't come one big flame because that was not God's purpose. The fire of the Holy Spirit is not given just for us to have cozy conferences. I'll tell you what happened. The fire, it says, it came in divided tongues.

In the Greek it speaks of utterly separate, utterly separate flames, and it sat upon each of them, and I said, Lord, what does it mean? What does it mean? And suddenly the Holy Spirit spoke to me. I never heard that before.

He said to me, the flames of fire, miniature power stations, and one sat upon it, and instead of us always having to run back to the fire, we carry that fire. That power station is with me right now. That power station is with you right now.

Amen. We are bearers of this wonderful, holy, pure fire from on high. He is the baptizer with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Isn't that terrific? I'm a bearer of that. Amen. How many of you are bearers of that fire?

Hallelujah. Let's give a hand for Jesus. I'm a carrier of that fire. We are bearers of this fire. Hallelujah. What a difference. What a difference. I've told the story on other occasions, but allow me to mention this.

The Holy Spirit's Fire and Spiritual Victory

One day I was preaching somewhere, and afterwards a lady came to me, and she said to me, preacher, pray for me, pray for me, pray for me, pray for me. She said, there is a demon sitting right here on my head.

I said, where? She said, here, here, here. I said, are you a Christian? She said, yes, yes, yes. So puzzled. She said, pray for me, pray for me. Tears came out of her eyes. Pray for me. There's a demon, she repeated, sitting right here on my head.

And the moment the Holy Spirit touched my heart, I said to her, lady, flies can only sit on a cold stove, and on a cold stove they can sit for a mighty long time. The fire of the Holy Spirit inside of you.

And I'll tell you, that dirty devil will not dare to touch you, because he's going to burn his filthy fingers. Amen. Oh, we carry a flame. It is a power station, a miniature power station, power for ministry, power for life.

It is the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Glory to God. Just imagine, this is the stove. I mean, the hot stove. And here comes the fly. Here the fly senses the heat. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. I tell you, if the devil keeps on troubling you, just get a new dosage of the fire of God.

Amen. All of a sudden, you will feel the heat, and you will say, wow, I used to be afraid of the devil. Today, the devil is afraid of me. It's a fact. God solved my devil problem 2 ,000 years ago, when Jesus crushed the head of the serpent.

That's not our problem. It's not our problem. That problem is solved. And Jesus is not sending us like defenseless. Yeah, somebody said to me, haven't you read? Jesus said, I sent you like sheep among the wolves.

I said, yes, he sends us like sheep among the wolves, but the sheep are on the attack. Isn't that true? The sheep are on the attack. Amen. I tell you, I've got a fierce spirit inside of me. And when I move out to preach the gospel, it burns, and it burns in my heart, and I just launch these gospel assaults on Satan's territory, and we see how this wonderful built-in gospel power turns the tables again, and again, and again.