What if I told you most of the body of Christ has only undergone one of the two baptisms required in the word of God? Would you call me a heretic? Would you tell me I don’t know my Bible? Or would you be able to take an honest look at the body of Christ and agree we need a baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire, not just water? Matthew 3:11 says, “I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” There are two baptisms we are to undergo or if there is only one, then it is the Holy Spirit and fire, for that is the baptism of Jesus Christ. Baptism in water was John’s baptism.

I was in prayer this morning and the Lord showed me the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire we all need to go through. This baptism will shape us into His image, for we have been molded into the image of the world and it is not working for us as His body. Paul said in Romans 12 we are not to be conformed, we are not to enter into the mold of the world, but we have, so God is about to give us, as a body of Christ, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire.

In prayer I saw men like iron rods going into the Holy Spirit, who was a blacksmith, they were being forged in the fire so they could be bent and shaped into the image Christ had for them. The fire is what softened them so they could be shaped. There is a new shape, image, God is doing with men. They must go into this forging furnace in order to be shaped into the image God wants them made in. This will be their baptism of fire.

I saw women like glass, they were going into the fire and the Holy Spirit was going to be a glassblower to them. Women were going to be heated up in fire so the Holy Spirit could free-blow on them and fashion them into the shape and structure God designed them to be. The fire made them flexible in order to become fashionable. This will be women’s baptism of fire.

The images of the Holy Spirit as blacksmith and glassblower were so obvious and the call to a baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire was what was next on God’s agenda for His body. We may be wet with the waters of baptism for repentance, but we are about to put in the furnace for the sake of shaping, so we can be a display of God’s glory on earth. We need a baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire!!!!