Are You Ignitable?
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“He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable?
God deliver me from the dread asbestos of ‘other things.’
Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame.
But flame is transient, often short-lived.
Canst thou bear this, my soul – short life?
In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived,
whose zeal for God’s house consumed Him.
‘Make me Thy Fuel, Flame of God.’”
–Jim Elliot as quoted in The Shadow of the Almighty
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Make Me Thy FuelFrom prayer that asks that I may be
Sheltered from winds that beat on Thee,
From fearing when I should aspire,
From faltering when I should climb higher,
From silken self, O Captain, free
Thy soldier who would follow Thee.From subtle love of softening things,
From easy choices, weakenings,
Not thus are spirits fortified,
Not this way went the Crucified,
From all that dims Thy Calvary,
O Lamb of God, deliver me.Give me the love that leads the way,
The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire,
Let me not sink to be a clod:
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God.–Amy Carmichael from Toward Jersualem
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