I am finding that as we continue to allow the Lord to work His will and pleasure in our lives, the deeper the fire must penetrate our hearts. It is necessary for God to come like refining fire and fuller's soap. Our hearts, motives, thoughts must be made whole in Jesus and only the Baptism of Fire can finish this work that He alone has started.
If we are truly allowing the Lord to become the Lord of our lives and come under His complete Headship and authority, we will begin to see everything that is not surrendered to Him in our lives. The fire will test our thoughts, motives, ambitions and our deepest desires. It will expose and separate the Holy from the profane in us, and like a refiner of silver and gold He will bring the profane, the dross, to the surface for us to see.
Why do we need to see it? Why won't God just take it out? Because, unless we see it, we can't truly repent of this root in our hearts. True repentance is not just saying I am sorry Lord for my sin, but it is an understanding of our unholiness in light of God's true Holiness. This alone can bring a true heart change in a Believer's life. When we see this ugly fruit of sin, we can begin to cry out for the finishing work of God to remove the "root of iniquity of that sin in us." Iniquity is the cause of sin that was imparted to us by Adam and Eve. It is the root of sin.
John the Baptist said the "axe is already laid at the root of the trees." Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown to the fire." The Lord is not coming to inspect just our works, but our fruit. In John 15 He said, "you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you to bring forth good fruit and that your fruit would remain."
Beloved, this is the day God is trying us like fire. He is examining our every thought, motive and desire. Are you ready for that kind of intimacy with God? Do you realize how close to His flame we must come for this deep work of sanctification and transformation in our lives? But there is no other way for the Lord to remove the spots and wrinkles from us but by FIRE!
How does this work in our lives? God allows us to walk through circumstances that will put great pressure upon us to bring those hidden things to the surface for us to see. Attitudes, habits, motives, and selfish desires will surely manifest and often time with great ugliness coming out of us. No one wants to talk about that, but dross is ugly. It is yuck and no one wants it to be seen, but God!
If we don't see it, it will stay buried in us stealing the life and love of God out of us everyday. It must come out of us. The severe pressure His remnant, His Bride is about to go through will not be pretty. Many are not even suspecting God will finish us this way of Fire, but He will. The Spirit of Burning must come to purify us and finish the work Jesus started in us. The pressure and severe stress many of you are facing is that very pressure of God to bring forth His fire. The pressure is used to reveal the truth from the lie, the holy from the profane. The question is will we know what to do when the ugly, the lie and the profane are brought forth into the light?
Will we run away and get a fig leaf to cover ourselves? Will we go into denial and say once saved always saved? Will we say no bother looking at it, we are under the blood, God will fix us on the way up? Or will we see the root of iniquity for what it is, ugly and deadly! Jesus paid the greatest of all price to remove it once and for all from us. Here the word of God Romans 8:1-3,
THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [[a]the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice.
For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus HAS FREED ME FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. Truthfully, do you see your life with that freedom right now from the power of this "law of iniquity?" No you don't and neither do I, but it is about to happen? How will the Lord do it? Malachi 3 tells us how to all those who are truly seeking the Lord Himself. Malachi 1-3:
BEHOLD, I send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me. And the Lord [the Messiah], Whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; the Messenger or Angel of the covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts.
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the priests, the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness.
Beloved this day of Fire begins with the most intense pressure we have ever faced. This pressure will expose what we have in the Lord and what we do not. It will bring the hidden things to light and the dross to the surface. If we will be willing to see it, acknowledge it to be in us before God in transparency, then he will send the fire to burn it out of us like a refining fire and fuller soap.
It won't be pretty or easy, because we will try all we can do to get out of the pressure that exposes the root of iniquity in us, but we must stay in the fire or the pressure until God can remove this root and the rootlets from our hearts. He must burn in us until He can sit upon His throne in our hearts and rule and reign!
Beloved, don't quit now in the time of testing, but let us encourage one another while it is still Today! We must not quit no matter how hard the pressure gets or the intensity of the Holy Flame of God burning in us. We will remain intact if we don't quit or faint, but the root of iniquity will once and for all be removed from us, and we will be truly free to rule and reign with Him forever and ever. Amen!
If we are truly allowing the Lord to become the Lord of our lives and come under His complete Headship and authority, we will begin to see everything that is not surrendered to Him in our lives. The fire will test our thoughts, motives, ambitions and our deepest desires. It will expose and separate the Holy from the profane in us, and like a refiner of silver and gold He will bring the profane, the dross, to the surface for us to see.
Why do we need to see it? Why won't God just take it out? Because, unless we see it, we can't truly repent of this root in our hearts. True repentance is not just saying I am sorry Lord for my sin, but it is an understanding of our unholiness in light of God's true Holiness. This alone can bring a true heart change in a Believer's life. When we see this ugly fruit of sin, we can begin to cry out for the finishing work of God to remove the "root of iniquity of that sin in us." Iniquity is the cause of sin that was imparted to us by Adam and Eve. It is the root of sin.
John the Baptist said the "axe is already laid at the root of the trees." Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown to the fire." The Lord is not coming to inspect just our works, but our fruit. In John 15 He said, "you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you to bring forth good fruit and that your fruit would remain."
Beloved, this is the day God is trying us like fire. He is examining our every thought, motive and desire. Are you ready for that kind of intimacy with God? Do you realize how close to His flame we must come for this deep work of sanctification and transformation in our lives? But there is no other way for the Lord to remove the spots and wrinkles from us but by FIRE!
How does this work in our lives? God allows us to walk through circumstances that will put great pressure upon us to bring those hidden things to the surface for us to see. Attitudes, habits, motives, and selfish desires will surely manifest and often time with great ugliness coming out of us. No one wants to talk about that, but dross is ugly. It is yuck and no one wants it to be seen, but God!
If we don't see it, it will stay buried in us stealing the life and love of God out of us everyday. It must come out of us. The severe pressure His remnant, His Bride is about to go through will not be pretty. Many are not even suspecting God will finish us this way of Fire, but He will. The Spirit of Burning must come to purify us and finish the work Jesus started in us. The pressure and severe stress many of you are facing is that very pressure of God to bring forth His fire. The pressure is used to reveal the truth from the lie, the holy from the profane. The question is will we know what to do when the ugly, the lie and the profane are brought forth into the light?
Will we run away and get a fig leaf to cover ourselves? Will we go into denial and say once saved always saved? Will we say no bother looking at it, we are under the blood, God will fix us on the way up? Or will we see the root of iniquity for what it is, ugly and deadly! Jesus paid the greatest of all price to remove it once and for all from us. Here the word of God Romans 8:1-3,
THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [[a]the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice.
For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus HAS FREED ME FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH. Truthfully, do you see your life with that freedom right now from the power of this "law of iniquity?" No you don't and neither do I, but it is about to happen? How will the Lord do it? Malachi 3 tells us how to all those who are truly seeking the Lord Himself. Malachi 1-3:
BEHOLD, I send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way before Me. And the Lord [the Messiah], Whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; the Messenger or Angel of the covenant, Whom you desire, behold, He shall come, says the Lord of hosts.
But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap; He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and He will purify the priests, the sons of Levi, and refine them like gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord offerings in righteousness.
Beloved this day of Fire begins with the most intense pressure we have ever faced. This pressure will expose what we have in the Lord and what we do not. It will bring the hidden things to light and the dross to the surface. If we will be willing to see it, acknowledge it to be in us before God in transparency, then he will send the fire to burn it out of us like a refining fire and fuller soap.
It won't be pretty or easy, because we will try all we can do to get out of the pressure that exposes the root of iniquity in us, but we must stay in the fire or the pressure until God can remove this root and the rootlets from our hearts. He must burn in us until He can sit upon His throne in our hearts and rule and reign!
Beloved, don't quit now in the time of testing, but let us encourage one another while it is still Today! We must not quit no matter how hard the pressure gets or the intensity of the Holy Flame of God burning in us. We will remain intact if we don't quit or faint, but the root of iniquity will once and for all be removed from us, and we will be truly free to rule and reign with Him forever and ever. Amen!
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I say come Y'shua burn every wicked way out of me, pull all the dross to the top of my heart and scale it off by Your Holy Spirit, give me more grace to hold fast to Your hand as You burn out the ways of the world and religion, let Your Holy Fire burn everything thats not like You. LORD burn with Your Holy Coals of Cleansing, Pure and Holy Light that will reveal every heart intent that is not like You. Holy, Holy Flame thats a Holy God's desire, Holy Pureafiy us all with Your Holy Fire. Yes Pastor the presure is great but if we Love Him like we say we will stand still so that we can see His so great a Salvation burned into us as the Holy Fire burns out the unholy spirit that so easily beset us. This great fire will cause us to die to self and when the Holy Spirit can then ignite His glorious fire in us to glow into the kingdom of darkness to light the Way out of the darkness into His Great Light of Salvation because (We are the light of the world in the world (He in us) Then the world will be able to see Him in us and not us. My prayer is Holy Spirit burn every wicked way in me, destroy my works and the works of the enemy against the Kingdom of Heaven and His Kingdom to come on earth as Y'shua died to establish in us. He brought His Kingdom down to us let us cause His Kingdom to come through us to be raised up to look like the Kingdom in Heaven.
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