“But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.” – Job 23:10
This has been a week of great testing across the body of Christ. Many have been going through the fire. I am not saying that the Lord has been the ‘author’ of the trials, but I saw the Lord USING the trials and the fire many have been walking through to bring a deep refinement, and in the testing remove anything that was hindering them and lead them into deeper levels of wholeness and purity. There is a deep level of healing and purification happening right now across the body of Christ. There is a purifying power that’s taking place in the fire.
The pressure that has been applied in the fire of these trials, may have felt like it has broken many, but as you have continued to keep your faces towards Him, you have moved to a deeper level of trust, you have moved to a deeper level of surrender and a deeper level of yieldedness and flexibility in following the prompting of the Holy Spirit as you have continued to stay positioned and not give up. As you have continued to lean on His chest.
Many have been feeling that the fire has brought them to a deeper level of brokenness but I felt the Lord saying YOU HAVE NOT BEEN BURNED! You have been SUSTAINED IN the fire. As you have continued to stand, you have been REFINED and STRENGTHENED and you are coming out as PURE GOLD.
I saw Him leading many out of the fire and into a river of ‘ease’. The fire has been hot, the trials have been intense, but you have continued to stand, and the Lord is leading you out and you are shining with a new level of purity and strength that bypasses emotion. You are coming out stronger as you have continued to stand. He has been in the fire with you and even though it feels like the fire was turned up 7 times hotter, you were NOT BURNED but STRENGTHENED. What was meant for your evil, the Lord has used for your good, to bring about a deep testing and trying that has brought forth a strengthening and purity of heart that has prepared you for what is before you.
He is moving you into a place of ease, a place where you can “gather your breath” and be refreshed. He is bringing you out now into a place where you shall see more come from your rest at His feet, than if you were ‘trying to do things and work it out yourself’. This deeper level of rest, is leading you into a new level of productivity. Such an ease and new levels of grace in the anointing. Much more fruit than before and no striving. A deep rest of heart and soul, a deep refreshing and new levels of revelation that is going to see more breakthrough and harvest than you have seen before.
Many of you have become very ‘tired’ in the fire but you are on your way out. You are moving into the rivers of ease of the Holy Spirit. A new level of flowing with Him, a new level of breakthrough. Moving from thinking you’re dying, to THRIVING. From flapping your wings hard to try and stay alive, to being carried by the winds of the Holy Spirit and soaring higher than before.