Fire Up! - Unlikely Candidates | Lesson 3 | LifeJourney

LifeJourney | Bible Studies from LifeMark Ministries · Sep 3, 2026 · 20m

Does the Holy Spirit work through people who don't even acknowledge God? In this episode of the Fire Up! podcast, hosts Rob Pine and Cynthia Michael dig into Lesson 3 of the study guide, "Unlikely Candidates," and meet three unexpected figures the Holy Spirit worked through in the Old Testament. There's Balaam, the pagan sorcerer-for-hire whose donkey talked more sense than he did, and who found he couldn't curse Israel no matter how much he was paid. There's Cyrus, the Persian king named by God through Isaiah more than a century before his birth, who freed the Israelites without ever truly…