Poetry on Fire

Why Co.?

Co. is short for company, and company is an old word with bread inside it. It comes from the Latin com, together, and panis, bread. A companion is someone you share bread with. A company is a table full of them.

That is the picture we wanted. We are not a church and we are not a denomination. We are a company of believers from every part of the Body, gathered around one table and one Lord. "For we, though many, are one bread and one body" (1 Corinthians 10:17).

Think of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Jesus walked beside them for miles and opened the Scriptures, and still they did not recognize Him. Then He sat at their table, took the bread, blessed it and broke it, and their eyes were opened. Later they told the others how "He was known to them in the breaking of bread" (Luke 24:35).

Discipleship happens at tables. Over coffee, over a meal, over an open Bible on the kitchen counter. That is where we want to meet you.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, invite someone to share a meal or a coffee with you this week, and ask how they are really doing.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

"Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while" (Mark 6:31).

Jesus said this to His disciples the day they came back from ministry, full of stories and tired to the bone. So many people were coming and going that they did not even have time to eat. He did not send them straight back out. He took them aside.

The Greek word for rest here is anapauō. It means to stop, and to be refreshed by stopping. The fire is not kept alive by striving. It is kept alive by staying close to Him.

Today, come aside. Put the week down and let Him refresh you.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.



Music: Come Close to Me, from our album Like Wildfire

Wildfire Word

The third word that carries The Wildfire Co. is the Move.

Acts ends with Paul under house arrest in Rome, chained to a soldier. He cannot go anywhere, yet for two whole years he welcomes everyone who comes to him, "preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him" (Acts 28:31).

In the Greek, the very last word of the book is akōlytōs. Unhindered. Luke ends the story of the early church with the apostle in chains and the Word running free. The man could be bound. The Word could not.

Then the book simply stops. There is no farewell and no final chapter, because the story was never meant to end with Paul. It carries on in every believer the Spirit fills.

That is what we mean by the Move. The Holy Spirit moves where He wills, and our part is not to stand in His way. "Do not quench the Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 5:19). The Greek word Paul uses there, sbennumi, is the word for putting out a fire.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, when the Holy Spirit nudges you to pray for someone, send a message or stop and listen, do it straight away. Do not talk yourself out of it.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Wildfire Word The second word that carries The Wildfire Co. is the Love.

Song of Songs 8:6 describes love like this: "Its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame." The Hebrew behind that last phrase is one word, shalhevetyah. Shalhevet is a flame. Yah is the short form of the Name of God. The Song hardly names God at all, and here He is, tucked inside the word for flame. Read plainly, it says this love is the very flame of the LORD.

That is the love we mean. It burns in His heart first, and then it reaches ours. Verse 7 goes on: "Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it." Whatever has gone over your head this year has not put it out.

A Wildfire cannot burn with zeal alone. Zeal without love burns people. The fire of the Word has to carry the heart of the One who spoke it, so we want our fire to look like Jesus. Patient with the slow, gentle with the wounded, and fierce about truth because He is fierce about people.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, think of someone who is hard to love right now. Do one kind thing for them that they could never repay.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Music: Come Close to Me, from our album Like Wildfire

Wildfire Word

Jeremiah had had enough. A priest had beaten him and put him in the stocks. He was mocked all day long, and every time he opened his mouth it cost him. So he made a decision: "I will not make mention of Him, nor speak anymore in His name."

It did not last. "But His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones." He was weary of holding it back, and he could not (Jeremiah 20:9).

The Hebrew word for bones is etsem. It also means the very self, the substance of a thing. Jeremiah was not describing a feeling that came over him in a meeting. The Word had become part of who he was, and you cannot switch off something that lives in your bones.

This is the first of the three words that carry The Wildfire Co.: the Fire. For us, the fire is the Word. We do not mean hype, or an atmosphere worked up on a Sunday. We mean Scripture that gets into you so deeply it cannot stay shut up.

Maybe you have gone quiet too. Tired, hurt, done explaining yourself. Jeremiah's story says the Word is not finished with you.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, read Jeremiah 20:7-13 slowly, and tell God honestly where you have gone quiet.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

When Luke wrote that God's word spread through the whole region, he used the Greek verb diapherō. Dia means through. Pherō means to carry. The Word was carried through the region.

He also wrote it in a tense that keeps moving. It was being carried, and it went on being carried. There was no single big meeting followed by silence. It went from one life to the next, day after day, the way a fire jumps from bush to bush across a mountainside in summer.

That is how the Word has always spread. After Stephen was stoned, the believers in Jerusalem were scattered, and "those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word" (Acts 8:4). They were not preachers by title. They had been driven from their homes, and they carried Jesus with them wherever they landed.

You do not need a platform to carry the Word. You need to have been with Jesus, and to let it show in your kitchen, at your desk, in your WhatsApp groups and in the car on the school run.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, write down the names of three people you will see this week. Ask Jesus which one needs to hear from Him through you.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Music: Lord, Lead Me On, from our album Like Wildfire



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When Luke wrote that God's Word spread through the whole region, he used the Greek verb diapherō. Dia means through. Pherō means to carry. The Word was carried through the region.

He also wrote it in a tense that keeps moving. It was being carried, and it went on being carried. There was no single big meeting followed by silence. It went from one life to the next, day after day, the way a fire jumps from bush to bush across a mountainside in summer.

That is how the Word has always spread. After Stephen was stoned, the believers in Jerusalem were scattered, and "those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word" (Acts 8:4). They were not preachers by title. They had been driven from their homes, and they carried Jesus with them wherever they landed.

You do not need a platform to carry the Word. You need to have been with Jesus, and to let it show in your kitchen, at your desk, in your WhatsApp groups and in the car on the school run.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, write down the names of three people you will see this week. Ask Jesus which one needs to hear from Him through you.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Music: Lord, Lead Me On, from our album Like Wildfire

Long day?

Think about the last time someone got under your skin. Long after they had moved on with their day, you were still replaying the conversation, rehearsing what you should have said, losing sleep over words they have probably forgotten. They were not in the room anymore, but they were still running your thoughts.

Paul knew how this works. "Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil" (Ephesians 4:26-27). The Greek word for place is topos. It is a piece of ground, a spot where someone can stand. Anger that we carry overnight hands the enemy a place to stand in our hearts, and from there he starts giving instructions.

Proverbs shows us the other way. "He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (Proverbs 16:32). The Hebrew behind slow to anger is erek appayim, literally long of nostrils. In Hebrew, anger lives in the nose, in the hot breath of a flared face. Someone who is slow to anger breathes long. It is the same phrase David uses for God Himself: "The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy" (Psalm 103:8).

You cannot always choose what happens to you. You can choose who holds the reins of your heart. Give them back to Jesus.

Let His Word spread like wildfire. It starts with the fire He kindles in you. Today, before the sun goes down, bring the person who angered you to Jesus by name, and leave them with Him.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Poetry on Fire is now The Wildfire Co.

A new name, the same fire. For years we have called you the Wildfires, because "God's Word spread like wildfire throughout the entire region" (Acts 13:49 TPT). The preachers moved on, and the fire stayed with the people. The new name simply says out loud who you already are.

Jesus is still the only Name to remember. We are still the same team of Holy Spirit, husband, wife, and daughter, still in Cape Town, and still opening one Scripture with you every weekday morning, now called Wildfire Word.

Share this with someone who walked with us as Poetry on Fire, so they can find us under our new name.

Stay close to Jesus, Wildfires.

Music: Like Wildfire, from our album Like Wildfire