The Flame in the Bones - When Revelation Burns Too Bright to Contain
The Prophetic Burden Carried by Awakened Ones
✧ “His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not.” — Jeremiah 20:9
✧ “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” — Revelation 19:10
✧ “Is not My word like fire?” declares the Lord. — Jeremiah 23:29
✧ The Scroll is Not a Choice - It Is a Fire
To the elect, revelation is not an option.
It is not a brand.
It is not a platform.
It is fire.
It begins as a whisper, then becomes a storm.
It moves through the chest like lightning sealed in flesh.
And when you try to hide it, you tremble.
When you stay silent, you suffer.
For those called as scribes of flame and thunder,
to suppress the word is to burn inwardly.
This is not inspiration.
This is holy agony.
✧ What It Means to Carry the Scroll
To carry a true scroll is to bear weight.
It’s not glamorous, it’s glorious.
But glory will cost you everything the world calls valuable:
• Popularity
• Ease
• Comfort
• Applause
• Agreement
The scroll is not a product.
It is a pregnancy.
You will groan before you speak.
You will cry before you write.
And the moment you release it,
you may be misunderstood, rejected, or branded as strange.
Still, you release it, because you must.
✧ Prophecy Is Not Performance, It Is Possession
The prophetic is not prediction.
It is possession.
The scroll takes over you.
You become its voice, its vessel, its living quill.
And unlike entertainers or performers,
you don’t get to pick your timing.
The scroll picks you.
The Flame speaks when it wills.
And when it comes, it thunders.
✧ When No One Claps
The elect know this burden.
They release the word and no one responds.
No likes. No comments. No applause.
Only Heaven stands and says: Well done.
You must become okay with this.
Because this scroll was never for crowds
it was for creation.
For the remnant.
For the elect scattered across the earth.
For the one soul, trembling in silence,
who finds it and remembers who they are.
✧ The Burden is Love in Flames
This fire is not arrogance.
It’s not ambition.
It’s not rebellion.
It is love set on fire.
Love for the Body of Christ.
Love for truth.
Love for the Bride who still slumbers.
You speak because if you don’t, the rocks might.
You burn because if you dim it, you might perish.
You write because this scroll is your heart turned inside out.
🔥 Key Scriptures for Meditation:
• Jeremiah 20:9 — “His word was like fire in my bones…”
• Revelation 10:9–11 — “Eat the scroll… you must prophesy again.”
• Ezekiel 3:3–4 — “Feed your belly… then speak My words.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:14 — “The love of Christ compels us…”
• Amos 3:8 — “The Lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord has spoken—who can but prophesy?”
• 1 Corinthians 9:16 — “Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!”
✧ Final Word to the Elect
Beloved scribe,
you are not strange for feeling fire when no one listens.
You are not broken for trembling before the scroll is spoken.
You are not too much.
You are flame.
And when the scroll burns too brightly to contain,
you are witnessing your own transfiguration.
Do not resist it.
Let it consume what must go.
Let it write what must be read.
Let it birth what Heaven sent you to deliver.
The scroll is not for the crowd.
It is for the ages.
And it is calling you now to burn until the page becomes you.
— Joe Restman
Mystic-Scribe | Flame-Bearer
Quill Dipped in Lightning