The Blood, Fire & Altar: 3 Keys to Unlocking Supernatural Power

We’re living in a Mount Carmel moment. The spirit of Jezebel is loud.

The prophets of Baal have taken center stage. The Church is filled with mixture, and the people are torn between two opinions. And yet, God is still searching for Elijahs—those who will confront the culture, call down fire, and rebuild the altar of the Lord no matter the cost.

The question isn’t whether fire will fall. The question is will there be an altar for it to fall on?

Because if there’s no altar, there’s no fire. And if there’s no fire, there’s no power.

And if there’s no power, there’s no freedom.

And if there’s no freedom, then all we’re left with is religion dressed up in lights and sound, big screens, fog machines, and skinny jeans.

But I believe something is shifting. I believe there’s a remnant rising who are tired of church as usual. Who are done pretending. Who are sick of shallow Christianity and are ready to pay the price for real glory. And it starts with one decision—to rebuild the altar.

The problem isn’t that people don’t want God. It’s that too often we’ve given them a God without fire. We’ve offered sermons without sacrifice, comfort without conviction, inspiration without transformation. We’ve traded in the altar—the messy, holy, demanding altar—for a polished version of Christianity that doesn’t require us to die to anything. And the result? A generation that’s been entertained but never encountered. Stirred but never surrendered.

Spiritually curious but never truly converted. All because pastors traded power-packed sermons for AI sermons. Many pastors in our culture spend more time working on their golf game and tans than preparing to feed their flock.

That’s why God is shaking everything that can be shaken. He’s stripping down what we built without Him. He’s exposing what’s been tolerated in secret. He’s removing the scaffolding we leaned on, so we have no choice but to return to what matters most—His presence.

His Presence, Our Purity

But presence doesn’t come without purity. And purity doesn’t come without fire. And fire doesn’t come unless there’s an altar.

We’ve tried to skip the process. We want the fire without the wood. The glory without the groaning. But God doesn’t fall on stage props. He falls on sacrifice. So if we want the kind of revival we claim to hunger for, we must start living like people who are willing to be set ablaze. Not just publicly, but privately. Not just when the cameras are on, but when nobody’s watching. That’s where altars are truly built—on the hidden floorboards of your daily surrender.

Five minutes in the presence of God can do more than five years of therapy. Presence-based living creates a power-based lifestyle for your family. Being in a culture of worship and the presence of God causes individuals to think and live differently. An awareness of who He is and the weight of His glory does something to the human experience. It creates Jesus encounters that cannot be experienced any other way. Encounters that you may not be able to fully explain, but encounters that you can never deny. I pray you experience Jesus in this way as you’re journeying through the pages of this book.

The altar is not just a moment in a church service. It’s a lifestyle. It’s how you carry yourself when temptation hits. It’s how you respond when pride flares up, when offense creeps in, when God asks you to forgive someone who doesn’t deserve it. The altar is where you lay down your right to be right. Your need to be noticed. Your craving for control. That’s where the fire falls—on obedience, not opinion.

And let me tell you something: the altar will hurt. It’s supposed to. That’s what makes it holy. When Abraham laid Isaac on the altar, it wasn’t because he wanted to—it was because he trusted God more than he trusted his own understanding. That’s the kind of sacrifice that unlocks supernatural provision. And that’s what God is looking for again. Not just outward praise, but inward posture. Hearts that say, “Whatever You want, Lord. Whatever it costs. Burn away everything that’s not from You.”

This is why we must be in the Word, reading the Bible, as it’s our weapon of warfare given by God. We must worship, as it is our honor and reverence of God. We must be in prayer, which is our conversation with God.

These are the only ways to truly get to know God and experience Him!

Remember—your faith and your passion activate God’s power in your life.

What is passion? Webster’s tells us passion is a powerful emotion; an intense feeling or conviction; a strong desire for or devotion. It also tells us passion is the sufferings of Christ between His last supper and His death. As we read in Acts, it was truly Christ’s passion for His creation that drove Him to do His earthly ministry, as well as what led Him to the Cross. It was His fervor and His zeal that compelled Him to suffer.

Power In His Blood

What is power? We sing about power: there’s power in the blood, there’s power in prayer. Webster’s tells us power is “the capacity to produce an effect; having control, authority, or capacity.” Power could be likened to a plug looking for a socket. A plug without a power source is useless. In like fashion, Jesus promised His disciples power if they would wait for the Holy Spirit to come upon them. This would enable each one to fulfill the commission Christ appointed to them.

So, we could say that Pentecost brought power. Because it wasn’t until Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out, that the disciples were filled with fire and power to go preach the gospel as Jesus commanded. Pentecost should be something that happens in our everyday life, not relegated to a sign outside a church. As spiritual beings created in the image of God, we should be on the pursuit of the supernatural power of God. The apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:16 (NKJV), “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes….”

Jesus isn’t comfortable being put in boxes, and He refuses to stay behind curtains. This is why He still chooses to move in new and fresh ways during seasons of outpourings. He likes to shake things out of the status quo. At the moment of Christ’s death, the curtain in the temple was torn from top to bottom, removing the barrier between God and mankind. Jesus became the Bridge from that point forward. Jesus also proved He doesn’t like graveclothes when He left His in the empty tomb. So, church, why do we want to wrap Him up in our self-im-posed graveclothes and keep Him locked behind curtains of religious legalism and man-made rules?

Power always follows passion. Christ Himself set this example.

I say, turn Him loose and let the Lion of the Tribe of Judah defend Himself! You have the Lion of the Tribe of Judah living in you! It’s time to turn Him loose in your life to do what He came to do!

What is compassion? Webster’s tells us it’s a deep awareness of the sufferings of others coupled with a desire to relieve it. The prefix com means “with” or “together.” So, there can be no compassion without passion. But just like this “dot com” generation, many have taken off the “com” and that’s left only passion. Passion by itself only hypes people up. But with compassion, we can truly have concern for the sufferings of the world around us that leads to change. Compassion for the world with passion as its power source. So, we could say the Great Commission is truly the Great Compassion!

The greatest power ever released unto humanity was at Calvary when Jesus died for the sins of the world. Jesus showed Himself alive after His passion, spoken of in Acts 1:3; but after that came the promise of “you shall receive power” in Acts 1:8. Passion always precedes power, because passion activates power! If we, as the Ekklesia, would get under the burden of passion and let that trans-late to compassion, we would see more power activated in and through our lives! If there is no passion, there will be no power, because there is no waste in God’s economy. The Bible says that Elijah was a man of like passion,

so if we want the power of Elijah, we must also have the passion of Elijah! Are you with me?

We ask, “Where is the Lord God of Elijah?” And God replies, “Where are the Elijahs of the Lord God?”

We ask, “Where is the power of Elijah?” And God replies, “Where is the passion of Elijah?”

God is saying to us that if He can find a man or woman with Elijah’s passion, He will show us a person with his power!

But please consider—power is only safe in the hands of love. This is why compassion for the world must lead our passion, just as it did for Jesus.

In the last several years, I’ve watched this kind of fire and passion hit people who never thought God would use them. Former drug addicts, atheists, ex-convicts—people who had no church background, no religious performance, but who walked into a room, hit the altar, and were set free. Why? Because they came with nothing to prove and everything to surrender. And God can work with that. He always has. It’s the self-righteous people who miss the fire. The ones who know how to “do church” without ever “being the Church.”