The Crucible

Hello My son, this is Jehovah Elohim speaking with you this day.  My precious children I come to you today with a word of encouragement in this dark time.  I have been meeting with each of you in different ways for different purposes, which all lead to My Will for your lives in the earth.  It is not My will that you stay in the same capacity as you have been, for I have a greater purpose for your lives.  I have been refining you and preparing you for this next phase of My movement in the earth.  Each of you have been pressed in on all sides and all but a few are ready to engage the enemy when I send you.  Do not resist the things you see but be trusting that I Am in sovereign control. 

(Note:  The Lord has had me in a crucible since December 20^th.  He has instructed me to let you know that, although the darkness I felt was crushing to me, that it came about because I had asked to be refined.  He has shown me that we must not only crucify our flesh on the Cross with Christ, but our souls as well.  This war is Spiritual and can be fought only in Spirit and in Truth – even the desires of our souls will be a hindrance to our path.  We must be so intimate with our Lord that when He says “move”, we move without hesitation.  If there are vestiges of our being that clings to control then it can become a hindrance.  My word of encouragement to you is that, throughout this darkness, He never left me nor did He forsake me in any way, but was with me in the crucible.  This great purging is needed for each of us to experience His love to a greater degree.  It is my hope and prayer that these words comfort you in some way.  Never give up, for we are children of the Most High God!)

1 Cor 3

1 Corinthians 3 (KJV)

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. ² I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. ³ For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? ⁴ For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

⁵ Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? ⁶ I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. ⁸ Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. ⁹ For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. ¹¹ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; ¹³ Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. ¹⁴ If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. ¹⁵ If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

¹⁶ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? ¹⁷ If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

¹⁸ Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. ²⁰ And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. ²¹ Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are your's; ²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are your's; ²³ And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.