Jan 28, 2020 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Where’s the Fire?

I traveled to Australia many years ago to do graduate work. I had a wonderful year studying in Australia and saw God do many miraculous things while I was there. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the citizens of Australia and love their wildlife and countryside.

The recent fires in Australia did not take me by surprise. There were devastating fires in their country while I was studying in Adelaide. Nevertheless, I was following the fires and was amazed by the sheer number of fires throughout the nation.

The fires had gone on for a few weeks but on a Friday about 3 weeks ago while I was walking and praying, I decide to pray that God would have compassion and put out one fire a day. I was not going to get completely involved even though God had given me a gift to pray against fires.

This gift came to me years ago while I was working as a professor for APU and working in the Victorville area of CA teaching teachers how to teach. It came to me one evening while driving home through the high desert listening to Christian music and praying & singing.

God spoke to me from literally from nowhere and with no particular thought process or reason on my part, He said, “I am the God of fire and you can have power over fire too.” I literally thought, “What? Where did that come from and why would God say this to me?” I did not know at the time that within 3 days I would be praying against a fire that was burning though the mountains, headed toward my ranch totally out of control and threatening homes throughout the canyon.

Saturday afternoon I went to the top of the mountain on my property and prayed against the fire as I watched planes fly overhead, dropping fire retardant all around me on both sets of mountains circling O’Neal Canyon.

I learned that day that God had given me a gift and exactly as I prayed that is how God put out the fire. This happened again during the huge ‘Day Fire’ in the forest north of LA. I decided to pray for the fire as I watched it while driving I-5 north out of LA to Kern County. God told me not to pray now but with my students at APU.

So, we prayed together the following afternoon, and I was specific with them to pray a certain type of pray in a certain sequence, as the Lord told me. The prayers were answered during the next 3 days exactly as we prayed. It was all over the news how the fire was contained and how it amazed the fire-fighters. The students read about it in the papers and watched it on TV—they were amazed how God answered their prayers—perfectly and exactly!

So, back to the fire in Australia, when I decided to pray for the fires in Australia, I waited for the Lord to speak, but having no word from the Father, I, out of compassion, decided to pray a simple prayer, “Lord, put out one fire a day.” There were over 30 fires burning at that time.

The next day, the Lord came to me when I asked Him about my previous prayer. He said, “Ask that I put out 2 to 3 fires each day.” So, I did, “God put out 2-3 fires each day.” He did just that starting the next day. A series of rainstorms came upon Australia putting out fires across the nation. I asked that it be done for a week and that is what happened.

God gives us gifts—gifts that come from the Holy Spirit and it is these gifts that we destroy the works of the devil. The fires in Australia did not come because of climate warming but because of the devil. The devil knows only to lie and to steal, kill and destroy.

It is the fire of the Holy Spirit that destroys the fire of the devil’s works. Find you gift (or gifts) and operate them according to the will and requests of God. These gifts are meant to give glory to God and destroy the works of the devil. It is time to believe—it is time to be as Christ wants us to be. We are the Sons of God and the Friends of Jesus Christ—this is who we are!

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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