On The Verge: A Divine Move — Stillness Before Fire Falls

On The Verge: A Divine Move! Sermon Notes                    

Stillness – Before Fire Falls                       Pastor Brad Myers

                                                                              September 7, 2025

New Series: On The Verge! A Divine Move!

This is a new series that will walk us through the spiritual process that precedes a divine move of God whether in our church or in our personal lives.

Congregational Recital Declaration

“We are on the verge of a divine move of God! We will be still and trust His timing. We will yield to the stirring of His Spirit. We will listen for the sound of His voice. We will welcome His arrival in power. This is our moment, and we will never be the same!”

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What is a “Divine Move?”

A divine move is the sovereign intervention of God that shifts the future of a person, a church, or a generation. It brings God’s presence, power, and purpose into a moment in such a way that it’s impossible for things to remain the same.

Comes with 4 Biblical Elements

• Clearly Supernatural
  • Acts 2:1–4: Day of Pentecost wasn’t manufactured; it was promised and poured out.
• Brings transformation, not just inspiration.
  • Isaiah 6:1–8: Isaiah wasn’t just inspired by God’s glory; he was cleansed, commissioned, and changed.
• It aligns heaven and earth.
  • John 1:14: “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”
  • A divine move draws God near.
• It shifts the future.
  • Acts 9: Saul’s encounter on the Damascus Road shifted the future of the church.

A divine move is the Spirit of God supernaturally invading the ordinary and reordering it to change the outcome.

We love the moments when the fire falls — when prayers are answered, when breakthrough comes, when revival breaks out. But if we look carefully at Scripture, we’ll see a consistent pattern: God does not send fire on chaos, but on consecrated ground. This series is about the consistent process God uses before a divine move; before the fire falls!

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Today: The Stillness: Before the Fire Falls

Stillness is the spiritual posture of quiet trust and surrendered expectation; where striving ceases and faith rests in His sovereignty, preparing the way for His presence and power.

• Not about waiting!!
• About Silence & Striving

Psalm 46:10 (NIV)

• Hebrew dāmam = be quiet and stop striving.

Stillness clears the clutter so God’s presence can descend

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Challenge at Mount Carmel: coastal mountain range in north Isreal (24 miles)

• Mid-9th century BC, King Ahab (874–853 BC).
• Israel in spiritual rebellion. Just like many today!
• Ahab, influenced by Jezebel, introduced Baal worship. (1 Kings 16:31–33).
• Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal: whose god is real by calling down fire.

• High Place of Worship: Both Yahweh and Baal
• Baal Canaanite storm god: control rain and fertility.
• Carmel was lush and fertile, Baal’s prophets saw it as their god’s territory.
• Elijah chooses Carmel as “neutral ground:
  • When fire falls here, it’s not in Jerusalem (Yahweh’s home field), but on “enemy turf.” This magnifies God’s supremacy.

Before Elijah called down fire, he called the people into stillness and restoration.

1 Kings 18:30-39 (NIV)

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Significance

• Frenzy vs. Stillness
  • Baal prophets had 450 voices that danced, shouted, cut themselves but received no answer.
  • Elijah used stillness, order, and a simple 60 second prayer.

Q What does this mean?

Stillness Can Rebuild Your Altar

• Hebrew word for altar, mizbēaḥ, means “place of sacrifice.”
• If that place is neglected, there is no fire.

Today, A personal altar is no longer stone and wood — it’s your life consecrated to God.

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Q) What altar in your life has been neglected?

• Altar of holiness?
• Altar of finances?
• Altar of prayer?

Before God sends the fire, you need to fix the place where He’s supposed to land! Fire is never arbitrary in Scripture. It is always God’s response to prepared places.

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Stillness Is Not Inactivity — it’s Preparation!

Stillness vs. Waiting

• Waiting = duration: The delay between promise and outpouring.
  • Chronos Clock time
  • Focus: “How long oh Lord?”
  • Activity: Drift into anxiety
  • Outcome: impatient and bitter
• Stillness = disposition: Your attitude during the waiting.
  • Kairos God time
  • Focus: “Know that I am God”
  • Activity: Preparation (Disciples Acts 2)
  • Outcome: Ready!

Clearest place God calls people to be still before a divine movement.

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Exodus 14:13-14 (NLT)

• Israel “waited” in panic at the Red Sea.
• Moses had to say: “Stand still and watch the Lord rescue you.”
• Hebrew ḥāraš = rest in trust.

Stillness is not passivity — it’s posturing. God responds to alignment, not anxiety. Stillness reveals what’s been lost in our activity.

Stillness Leads To Sacrifice Which Leads Fire

• Elijah didn’t just pray — he sacrificed.
• He drenched the altar with water in the middle of a drought.

2 Chronicles 7:1 (NIV)

Historical Context

• Solomon’s reign, mid-10th century BC (~960 BC).
• Dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem after 7 years of construction
• Solomon offers a lengthy prayer of dedication.

Stillness Precedes the Fire in Solomon’s Dedication

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1. Stillness in Assembly: All Israel gathered, united in focus.

• Priests carried the ark in solemn procession, offering sacrifices “too numerous to count.”
• ordered, reverent stillness before Yahweh.

2. Stillness in Worship

• The priests come out, clothed in holiness, with no division among them.
• The Levites sing in one voice: “For He is good; His love endures forever.”
• Then the glory cloud fills the house so strongly that the priests cannot stand to minister.
• This is worshipful stillness — the people stop, overwhelmed by God’s presence.

3. Stillness in Prayer

• Solomon kneels on a bronze platform, lifts his hands, and offers a long prayer of dedication.
• The people are silent, listening.
• His prayer is about covenant alignment, forgiveness, and God’s presence — not about performance.
• This stillness of prayer sets the stage for God’s fiery response.

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The biblical pattern holds: stillness → sacrifice → fire

Some of us want fire but resist sacrifice. If you don’t tithe, start. If you’ve withheld forgiveness, release it. If prayer has gone cold, rekindle it. The Spirit of God does not pour Himself out on convenience — He pours Himself out on costly stillness.

God often inserts a pause before His greatest outpourings:

• Red Sea (Exodus 14:13–14) – Deliverance came only after Israel stopped panicking and stood still.
• Sinai (Exodus 19:10–20) – Israel had to consecrate and wait three days before God descended in fire and smoke.
• Upper Room (Acts 1:4–14) – Obedient waiting led to Pentecost fire.

Even Heaven pauses in stillness before God’s fire of judgment falls.

Revelation 8:1 (NIV)

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Q) Why is Stillness So Hard?

• Our culture worships busyness. Productivity = value.
• Society says; “If you’re not moving, nothing is happening.”

Azusa Street Revival: William Seymour would pray silently with his head in a box. People mocked the stillness, but out of that stillness came fire that spread Pentecost around the globe.

Closing Congregational Recital

We will be still and trust God’s timing. We will rebuild the altar of our hearts. Before the fire falls, we will wait in faith. Lord, prepare us in the stillness — and let Your fire fall on consecrated ground!”