NOW BEGINS THE TIME OF REFINING OF HIS HARD-TO-REACH ONES
December 4, 2022 10:27 AM
Whitney E. Manuel
This came into my spirit just now (Sunday morning, December 4th) during prayer. I felt and prayed that the LORD’s full measure of grace and help will be with those who will walk through this most difficult time. These are the ones, for whatever reason, who have resisted fully yielding to His refining process up until now. These are those also dearly loved by their FATHER, who is willing to allow His children to go through this painful process to bring forth pure gold, as it were, refined in the fire. Pray for all those who will partake of this cup, that they will finally surrender fully to CHRIST JESUS and His life-giving refining process~
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
“How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street. The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!”
-Lamentations 4:1-2
“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of My people?”
-Jeremiah 9:7
“And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon My Name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my GOD.’”
—Zechariah 13:9
“So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of JESUS CHRIST.”
-1 Peter 1:7
“I will turn My hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.”
-Isaiah 1:25
“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.”
-Isaiah 48:10
“Behold, I send My Messenger, and He will prepare the way before Me. And the LORD whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple; and the Messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, He is coming, 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 sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord. Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days of old and as in former years.
-Malachi 3:1-4
“The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.”
-Proverbs 17:3
“I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.”
-Revelation 3:18
“And some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.”
-Daniel 11:35
“But He knows the way that I take; when He has tried me, I shall come out as gold.”
-Job 23:10
“And after you have suffered a little while, the GOD of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in CHRIST, will Humself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.”
-1 Peter 5:10
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.”
-Isaiah 43:2
