Have you lost your fire?

Let’s go right into this teaching:
Have you lost your fire?
That’s the question.

And if you have, here are four ways to keep the fire burning.

1. Stay in the Word.

The first way is the Word of God.
In order to keep the fire burning on the inside of you, you must keep the Word of God on the inside of you.

Jeremiah says:

“Your Word is like a fire shut up in my bones.”

That means there is an effect that comes from the Word of God—it causes a fire to be ignited in someone.

Because:

“Our God is a consuming fire.” —Hebrews 12:29

If God is a consuming fire, then His Word carries fire.

Gifts alone don’t sustain a Christian’s walk.
That’s why when people are solely bent on just the gifts, their Christianity is unstable.
You can’t base your Christian life just off an encounter with God.
There has to be more than that.

Saul had an encounter with Jesus. But then from there, he had to grow.
You cannot live your life based off someone else’s fire.
You cannot live off someone else’s time in the Word of God.

If you keep His Word on the inside of you—because it is alive and active—it will keep the fire burning.

2. Remain in the presence of God.

Hebrews 12 says:

“Our God is a consuming fire.”

If God is a consuming fire, then I need to stay close to the fire.
I need to remain in the presence of God.

When people cool off, it’s because they back away from the fire.

Wherever you find the presence of God—run to it.
Don’t back away from the presence of God.

If I’m always around the fire, I’ll always stay on fire.

3. Stay planted where the fire is.

If you find a place where the fire of God is—and God didn’t tell you to leave—don’t leave.

There’s a spirit I’ve seen in regions… a kind of “vagabond spirit.”
People are here one Sunday, there another Sunday, here today, gone tomorrow.
Even after having an encounter with the fire of God, they leave.

Is that the model of the New Testament church?
Was it constant up-and-down, back-and-forth movement?

No.
If you want to stay on fire for God, stay where the fire of God is.

Even as a minister, I go to meetings where the fire of God is.
Not just for the service, but so it stays on me.

If I’m not on fire, I’m not putting fire on people.

There are ministers from Africa coming here now who carry fire—
And they didn’t get that by having great media teams or coffee shops.

They came from places where they had barely enough electricity.
They had to deal with blackouts and power limits.
But they carried the fire.

So I ask you:

Are you in a place where the fire of God is?
Are you in a place where His presence is moving?
And if not—why aren’t you?

“Well, they don’t have a great coffee area.”
“Well, I don’t love the kids ministry.”

But what if the very thing you’re looking for—God was going to put it in you to build?
And you left before it could even start?

Don’t miss out on the fire of God.
Especially in this final hour.
This isn’t just preference—it’s life or death.

4. Don’t fall for distractions or delay.

The Bible says:

“In the last days, many will fall away… they will give heed to seducing spirits.” —1 Timothy 4:1

Matthew 25:
Five were wise. Five were foolish.
Five kept the oil and the fire lit.
The other five let it die down.

They said, “It’s fine. I’ll do it later.”
But later didn’t come.

People flop around like a fish dying—out of water, out of their element.
Flop, flop, flop… dead.

You’ve got to decide:

“From today on, I’m not going to be flip-flopping.”

If the presence of God is here—I’m staying.
Unless the Lord tells me to move, I’m not moving.

That kind of tenacity needs to be in your Christianity.
A fire on the inside that says:

“There’s fire here—I’m not leaving it.”
“God is here—I’m not leaving Him.”

You don’t need hype. You need fire.

—Noah