In ancient times when people feasted together they would spend the entire day or days with their host. Many times they had come from a long distance. In the time the guest was visiting, their own fires would have gone out at their homes.

Fire meant life. Fire meant warmth for their families. Fire meant they could cook a meal. Fire was light. Fire was vital to their very existence. If they had no fire, they were in serious trouble.

When a guest would leave, the host would put coals in a small "pot" which the guest would often carry wrapped in his turban on their head. They would carry the coal home which would enable them to start their own fire back at their house or camp. It was an act of love in heaping coals on their head. They were giving the person a life giving blessing.

Think about this in terms of the Lord and our lives as His followers. As we bless and not curse our enemies, we are giving them life to bring back to their own home. We are able to send back with them light that can warm their whole family. We enable them to cook a meal of forgiveness and love to feed their own children. It is an act of blessing which can stop wars or family feuds. It overcomes evil with good.

The next time you are hurt by someone, think of these verses. People are really not our enemy. We have a spiritual enemy that sometimes moves through people. We over come the hurt or the evil with good. We don't engage in arguing, call names back, use rude hand gestures, or whatever people do when they are angry. We heap burning coals on their head by offering them life and light to bring back to their own home. We overcome evil with good. I pray God would give us the grace to be able to do so.

"live by the cross, not by the scales

"mercy and grace are twins"

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Always listen to the inner perceptions of the Holy Spirit no matter how perfect things appear to be outwardly.  He knows things we do not know.  We must have so much more confidence in the inner witness of the Holy Spirit than we have had in the past as a Body.  He will never lead us into trouble. He will only lead us out of trouble and into the perfect will of God. 


For whatever reason the Holy Spirit might be guiding you through the inner witness, you are encouraged to obey Him at all costs.  Maybe He is trying to protect your life.  Maybe He is trying to keep you from marrying the wrong person.  Maybe He is trying to lead you into prosperity.  Possibly He is guiding you into a major change of direction in your life.  Do not allow outward obstacles to keep you from trusting Him.  He can remove every obstacle, even supernaturally.  Possibly He has been impressing you for months or even years that something specific is coming into your life.  Just relax and let Him work out the details.  He will remove every obstacle. 

This is a decision you must continually make, daily.  The Holy Spirit will not force you to obey Him, but He will continually bear witness within you as to what is right and what is wrong for your life.  He will continually give you peace or unrest about things.  He will continually give you the green light or the red light, but you must LET that witness rule within you.  You must decide whether to stop or to go ahead.  You must make the decision constantly to not be led by outward circumstances, well meaning individuals or anything else besides the inner witness of the Holy Spirit.

A crisis is not the time to attempt to develop sensitivity to the “inner witness” of the Holy Spirit.

If you are about to make a decision in your life concerning investments, a move, marriage, school, a job change, etc., and something on the inside is telling you to back off, you would do exceptionally well to heed that inner perception.  That “something” is actually “Someone.”  That is the “inner witness” of the Holy Spirit and it is the primary way that God guides when there is no Scripture to tell you what to do.