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“Perhaps the Holy Spirit is calling you to bend; to break; to be beaten and moulded by his word and his Spirit. He may be enlarging you and reshaping you, stretching you to shape you for his purposes.”
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2 Corinthians 3:18
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory,
are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes
from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
Dudley Anderson.”
“Hi Dudley, it’s Barbara,” said the voice on the other end. “Hi Barbara, how are you?”
“Fine. Dudley, I was just praying, and the Holy Spirit gave me an impression of a blacksmith, hammering away at steel on his anvil. As he hammered, sparks were flying everywhere. I feel this is a word for the church. God is shaping us," she said.
We chatted a little more and said goodbye. I hung up the phone, thinking about
what she had said. As I returned to working on my laptop, I began to sense the
Holy Spirit prompting me to pray. So, I walked downstairs and sat in my prayer
chair in the lounge, opening my heart to the Lord. In less than a minute, I
found myself on my knees calling out to God for wisdom and insight. Then it was
as if I felt the Spirit tug at the sleeve of my spirit, and I literally turned
my head to hear the word “resilience” in my heart. “Resilience? What do you mean by resilience,
Lord?” I asked. I had a notion that it had to do with a negative interpretation
of the word, so I prayed against “resilience” in Jesus’ name.
After I felt I had come through in prayer, I returned to my computer and looked
up the word resilience. I found it to mean: “The physical property of a
material to return to its original shape or position after deformation that
does not exceed its elastic limit.”
Hmmm, to return to its original shape, I mused out loud.
In Isaiah we read, “We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of
your hands,” and in Jeremiah, “But the pot he was shaping from the clay was
marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as
seemed best to him.” This analogy has to with how a potter forms and reforms
clay into the shape he requires it to be. However, for the clay to be shaped,
it needs to be malleable and not resilient! Imagine if a lump of clay bounced
back to being just a lump of clay after it was shaped into a lovely vase.
Likewise, hard steel in the hand of a skilled blacksmith is malleable and not
resilient. If these materials were resilient then they would always bounce back
to their original shape and be useless to anybody.
The Lord may be doing a new thing in your life. Perhaps the Holy Spirit is
calling you to bend; to break; to be beaten and moulded by his word and his
Spirit. He may be enlarging you and reshaping you, stretching you to shape you
for his purposes. Take courage and allow God to enlarge your boundaries. God’s
ways are higher than your ways, and his ways are always for you are good, even
when it seems the sparks begin to fly!
God-tracking is being malleable in the hands of the Blacksmith of Heaven.
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“I turn away from resisting your hand and turn toward your anvil
and hammer.”
“Dear Lord, thank you
that you are bending me. Thank you that you are reshaping my life and my future
to fit in with your wonderful plans for me. Help me, O Lord, to never be
resilient in the hands of the Blacksmith of Heaven. Help me to bend to the
shape you want me to be and remain humble as you work in my life. Forgive me of
any sin and malice that has caused me to bounce back to old ways. I turn away
from resisting your hand and turn toward your anvil and hammer. Amen.”
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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail Christian motivational thought, written by
Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His
Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by
tracking his purposes, in faith.
Unless otherwise indicated, all Bible quotations are taken from the Holy Bible,
English Standard Version (ESV)
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