Fire Without Wood

Greetings in Jesus name! Welcome to this beautiful new day, to this beautiful new opportunity to know the Lord, to walk with Him, to experience His presence in a fresh and personal way.

Everything in us, around us and everything that has been spoken to us, has a very profound effect on how much we are able to remain in sync with the Lord. When the relationships we have is constantly in turmoil, it will automatically stop us from walking with God intentionally, it will automatically drain our emotional strength, physical strength and we will not be able to concentrate on the spirit. So, it’s necessary we pay enough attention for the sake of our walk with God and our love for God, how we express and experience relationships around us, within us and even our relationship with the spirit world.

Proverbs 26:20 “Fire cools out without wood and quarrels disappear when gossip stops.”

It’s talking about an example of how fire needs something to burn, something to keep going, something as a base material, not necessarily fuel but it needs to burn something if it has to be still active. If the wood is taken out, then there is nothing for the fire to consume and then the writer of Proverbs compares it to quarrels or inconvenient conflicts or things that are not supposed to take away your time.

He says when you take away the gossip; the quarrels, the conflicts, the challenges that you may have with the people around you or even within yourself, it will die and disappear. There is nothing now to disagree and quarrel about. So, it is necessary that we pay attention to what are the gossips we are entertaining in our lives, gossips we are believing, gossips we are propagating. Gossip is anything that is false information or even misinterpreted truth now being propagated and constantly spread.

Now if I spend some time with you and try to evaluate the problems and troubles you are experiencing in your relationships, in your personal value system, even what you feel and experience within yourself, we can always trace it down to a lie that you have believed, or a lie that your spouse or a lie that somebody in your community has believed and acted on it, which has brought all these conflicts and quarrels.

We can spend ages trying to sort out these quarrels, these conflicts, trying to come to a conclusion; however, without taking the lie out of the picture, it will be of no use, we will go nowhere.

And yet, when we work actively to take the gossip away, to take the lies away, to take those unwanted conversations that we are entertaining in our head away, the quarrels will dissipate and automatically bend their knees to the person of Jesus that is living inside of you.

Today if you can spend some extra time trying to navigate your heart, your mind and try to figure out what are the gossips I have entertained; sometimes it is from people that you must have heard this, other times on television you must have heard this or else you must have been spoken to by the enemy himself, where he whispered thoughts and ideas into your head, just like he did to Eve. He is the one who has done this to so many men and women of God throughout history. He must be the one speaking an evil lie or non-truthful sentence into your spirit.

Today, it is important you understand what is the gossip that you have been entertaining which is creating all the fire, destruction, quarrels and conflicts in your life. And today we are taking authority over the lies of the enemy, we are taking authority over gossip. We think that this scripture is only talking about the gossip that some elderly aunty would bring and eventually that would lead to quarrels.

Although that is part of this, we need to be careful about the lies that pertain to somebody else’s character, our own character, God’s character and about our future, our destiny and everything the enemy is planning to do in this particular relationship, that nothing good is coming out of this marriage, nothing good is coming out of this job, nothing good is coming out of this friendship, nothing good is coming out of your prayers and your walk with God and slowly a conflict starts brewing which eventually becomes a fire forest.

So if you take the gossip away, it is like taking the wood away and there is nothing to burn on and there is nothing to spread the fire of the conflict beyond that point.

Let me speak the Lord’s word over you; the Lord says, His plans over your life are everlasting, that He has forgiven you, that He wants to redeem you this morning, that He wants to bless your marriage, He wants to prosper you in your finances, He wants to use you to be a vessel of honour and glory, to represent His name, to bring people to Jesus, to be an ambassador of Christ in this season, in this generation, in this lifetime. Will you believe this truth over the lies that the enemy has spoken into your spirit, over the lies that your parents, family members, relatives, friends and enemies have spoken to you? Will you believe the truth this morning because fire is about to go out because the wood has been taken away in Jesus name. Amen.