An altar is a place of sacrifice, covenant, and spiritual allegiance. Its where something dies so covenant relationship may live.
It symbolizes a place of worship
If you’re going to create an altar, prepare for the fire!
➡️An altar without fire is incomplete.
➡ Fire validates the offering
An altar always answers two questions:
- Who is being honored?
- What is being surrendered?
With that said, what happens when The Refiner’s Fire 🔥 comes in??
- The sacrifice is consumed and
- Separates pure from impure
Bc the altar is where immpurity is exposed, mixture is removed, authenticity is tested and motives are purified;
If an altar of Baal (false god) is created vs a holy altar sacrificed to God [one that produces a “sweet aroma”/worship to Him], IT WILL NOT ENDURE THE TESTING OF THE REFINER’S FIRE (Holyspirit/Yaweh)
“These men have set up their idols in their heart…” -Ezekiel 14:3
The physical structure of an altar & what’s placed on it and offered as a sacrifice, symbolizes our heart–the inner place of surrender, covenant, and worship. The Greek meaning for “heart” is inner self; conscience. It is the control center of allegiance and worship.
🔥The altar determined the spiritual condition of Israel.
🔥The heart determines the spiritual condition of a person.
Idolatry begins internally before it manifests externally. This is why The Fire of God is necessary & so powerful! Fire in the heart:
🔥Tests faith
🔥Burns away impurities and motives &
🔥Strengthens what is genuine
The altar of the heart must endure refining. What remains and endures the power of God, reveals purity. (1 Peter 1:7)
Leviticus 6:12-13 is a symbolism of how the continuous fire signifies constant, unceasing worship, atonement, and the perpetual presence of God, ALONE among His people–
When one set up an altar, it’s not just a structure, yall! It’s a prophetic picture of THE HEART!
The bow/kneeling to that physical altar mirrors the inner altar bc
➡️The altar of the heart determines the authenticity of worship.
➡️Whatever sits on the altar (table) of your heart, is what you truly worship‼️
📖“The true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth…”-John 4:23-24
Empowered and Inspired 
This was a great read and breakdown. Just the other day I was cleaning up after feeding my children and the Holy Spirit spoke dropped in my spirit “you think you only living out your purpose when those things I have promised come to past”. And when that came it convicted me and realigned my thinking.
Lately I have found myself back in this place again of looking at my life and that once again seeing that the weather is breaking and we have still not received the breakthrough that God has promised us in larger scale. We still see him providing and keeping us through each day and moment. But I so desire to see the ultimate breakthrough of relief He promised would come on this side.
the HolySpirit awhile back gave me strategy on how to keep myself out of doubt/discouragement and keep me in enduring faith regardless of what it looks like or sounds like. The two strategies are:
reading this post has reminded me to look at all the things on my heart and allow the Holy Spirit to reevaluate continously so that my motives and heart remains pure towards the Lord. the Holy Spirit instructed me to make a list of “issues on my heart” so i will.
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