First let me prelude what I am about to say with this – I love fire! Haha! Yeah, you guessed it, I am a huge pry maniac. I don’t know when or how it started, but I love making fires (or burning anything really).

But I want to just share a few things I have learned, and then something that God has revealed to me during this fast that just rocked my world!

First, in order to have fire you must have some kind of ignition, or spark, basically something that is just hot! Without this it’s really hard to make anything catch on fire… okay yeah, its impossible. This is why you will see someone who is hiking always have dry matches, or in my case, a heavy duty lighter . Without these ignition systems… NO FIRE .

Second, you have to have some type of fuel. Wood, gas, propane, etc… No fuel = no fire. (Prov 26:20)

Last – Oxygen! Just like we need oxygen, so a fire needs oxygen to burn. If you’ve ever been trying to start a fire in a barbecue pit for almost an hour, only to realize the air inlet hole wasn’t open…Yeah, doesn’t work too well.

So I think we’ve established the three things you need to make or have a fire.

Ignition+Fuel+Oxygen = FIRE!

So a few days ago it was like 37ºF which is pretty cold for Louisiana… intelligent me, decides it would be cool to start a fire in the fire pit and drink coffee and talk to Jess. Well it just so happened to be the windiest night of the two week long winter season…. So like a good little boy scout I get all the wood together so I don’t have to blow on the wood to get it going, or even have to get out some gas or lighter fluid (which would be fun). But with all the wind it seemed as though I would never get going. Until it hit me – if I block the wind then I can get the fire going. So I moved around the pit until I found the optimal place to block the wind… And what do you know? FIRE!!!

Then as I began to sit back and enjoy the fire, God gave me a revelation. If I position myself where God needs me to be, he is waiting with the matches and lighter to start a fire in me (Psalm 119:2). It’s the same for everyone! If you will position yourself (physically, spiritually, and financially) then God is waiting to pour himself into, onto, and all around you.

-huddy