FEELING THE HEAT OF GOD’S FURNACE

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“Are you in a furnace today? Be encouraged, your Lord is refining you. Be encouraged, if you’re in the furnace today, he is with you. Charles Spurgeon said, ‘As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.’”

1 Peter 16:7
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 honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

I used to work in an office that overlooked a steel mill. Across the property boundary was a rail track where rail carriages would line up to receive the dross that resulted from the iron refining process. I watched as carriage after carriage was filled with the disgusting steaming metallic sludge that was skimmed off the purified iron, which was being refined to produce smooth shiny stainless steel.

The same process is employed to refine gold. Gold is precious. Gold is beautiful. However, most gold jewellery we wear is not pure, it is an alloy mix of gold and other metals. When gold is purified, this mixture is heated to a temperature of between 1,000 and 1,100 degrees Celsius. When the metallic mixture reaches this temperature, it melts. In the furnace, the pure gold sinks to the bottom of the crucible while the impure alloy metals separate and rise to the surface. This is called the dross. The sludge of dross is then skimmed off and discarded, leaving beautiful precious pure 24-carat gold behind in the crucible.

You are precious. You are beautiful. You have deep hidden qualities that God rejoices over. He who is holy has called you to be beautifully holy as he is holy. There is an old song that goes, “Purify my heart, let me be as gold and precious silver. Refiner's fire, my heart's one desire is to be holy.” Only in the heat of God’s furnace can you, and I, be refined to become holy. Only in the heat of God’s furnace will the dross of the old life rise to the surface that it may be skimmed off, revealing beautiful precious qualities of holiness within you.

Are you in a furnace today? Be encouraged, your Lord is refining you. Be encouraged, if you’re in the furnace today, he is with you. Charles Spurgeon said, “As sure as God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.”

God-tracking is a refining process

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Zephaniah 3:17
1 Peter 1:15
1 Peter 1:6-7
James 1:2-4

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

Dear Lord, if this is a process to refine me like pure gold, please cause the dross in my life to rise up that you may skim it off

“O Lord, I feel like I’m in a fiery furnace today. So much is going wrong. I have so many needs and have called on you for healing, protection and deliverance but it seems you don’t hear me. Yet, I know you do hear me! Dear Lord, if this is a process to refine me like pure gold, please cause the dross in my life to rise that you may skim it off. Help me through this trial. Help me to stay strong and endure the heat in faith that you will, indeed, come through for me. Lord, you are faithful. You never abandon me, even in the fiery furnace. Amen.”

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GOD-TRACKING IS TRUSTING THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN TO SHAPE YOUR LIFE

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“At times… my life has felt like a lump of molten glass at the end of a glassblower’s blowpipe that has popped under the pressures of life. It is then that the Glassblower has returned me to his furnace and turned up the heat.”

Jeremiah 18:4And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

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There is a craft centre near my home where a glassblower has set up his shop. I love going down there to watch him at work. He begins by attaching a lump of raw glass to the end of his blowpipe and then places it in the furnace. When the glass is heated sufficiently and softened by the heat, he removes it from the fire and begins to gently blow through the pipe into the molten glass. Slowly, under the pressure of his breath, the lump of glass begins to expand until it becomes a glowing bubble. Gradually, he continues to shape the piece and add other parts to it until he has formed it into the masterpiece of his design.

All along the glassblower has the shape and purpose of the object he is shaping, in his mind. In his heart, he has decided its purpose and splendour. If the piece he is blowing becomes disfigured or bursts under the pressure of his blowing, he will place it back in the furnace and reshape it until it fits perfectly with the plan he had for the object he is creating.

“I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. If you know and have acknowledged Christ as Lord of your life, then you can be sure he has a plan for you. The Scripture tells us that if we acknowledge God in all our ways, he will direct our life’s track. Your Lord is omniscient. That is, God knows everything there is to know about everything. This includes you and your whole life. God knows your past, your present and your future. You are the object of his creation. More than this, God knows what he has in his mind for the object he is creating. You have purpose!

Don’t let anyone convince you that you are useless or worthless. Your value is equal to the value of the life of God’s own Son, Jesus. You see, God Almighty sent Jesus to give his life for you, that you may have new life in him. God does nothing by chance. In Christ, your life does not operate by random default, it operates by purposeful design.

However, sometimes it doesn’t feel as though we have any purpose in life. I know that feeling – I’ve been there, too. At times like this, my life has felt like a lump of molten glass at the end of a glassblower’s blowpipe that has popped under the pressures of life. It is then that the Glassblower has returned me to his furnace and turned up the heat. But, when that happens, he is merely refining my purity and softening my heart so that I will again become malleable under the pressure of his breath.
God knows the plans he has for you, dear GodTracker. So, keep your heart soft and your eyes on Jesus as you seek his perfect purpose for your life.

God-tracking is trusting the master craftsman to shape your life   

READ ALL ABOUT ITJeremiah 29:11-13
Proverbs 3:5-6
Jeremiah 18:1-4

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

Shape me and make me into the good piece you have designed and purposed for me to be

“Dear Lord, sometimes it feels like the heat is on and I’m under huge pressures. Forgive me, Lord, when I fail or pop under such pressure. I am infallible, but you are not. Therefore, I submit now to the heat of your furnace and the pressure of your breath. Shape me and make me into the good piece you have designed and purposed for me to be. I place my trust in you and continue to acknowledge you in all my ways. Thank you for the plans you have for my life. In Jesus, I pray. Amen.”

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trACker number395 Your Constant In The Heat Of Change

trACker number395

The e-Devotional helping to keep you on-track

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14 April 2012 

  

Dear God Tracker

Your Constant In The Heat Of Change

It’s been said that some people will change when they see the light. Others change only when they feel the heat. Sadly life on this planet is thwarted with change. From the moment we’re born until the day we pass on to greener pastures we undergo constant change. Changes can sometimes be planned and desirable but they can also result from the unavoidable consequences of other people’s choices or changes upon our lives. But it’s how we deal with change that truly matters.

I thank God that he never changes. The Bible says that he is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Lord God is the only constant in the universe. When Jesus died to reconcile us to God he opened the way for the God-constant to become part of our lives. The day you saw the light and asked Jesus into your life you were transformed into a new creation. In unchanging Christ then, you are always safe and secure. So even when factors in your life influence your circumstances for change, the One in you remains the same, always. Like the air you breathe, God’s Holy Spirit is alongside you through every change of life you undergo. His love, grace and strength never vary. So today allow him to be your constant in the heat of change.

God tracking is constantly changing for the good, for good.

Ever blessing

Dudley

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Verse of the Week

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.

Quote of the Week

A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes.

“Everything continues in a state of rest unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed upon it.” --- Issac Newton

 

Don’t Give-up, Look-up!

Look-up and Fix Your Eyes On Jesus!

Author Of My Faith

Hebrews 12:2

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Pray

“Dear Lord, thank you for changing my life for the good, for good when I asked Jesus into my heart. Thank you that the old has gone and the new has come. But I pray that you will help me to face unavoidable circumstantial changes that come my way. Help me to deal with the new and to release the old. Help me to be consistent through things that vary in my days. I choose to fix my eyes on Jesus who was constant throughout the crucifixion, because he saw himself on the other side of his circumstances, seated at God’s right hand. Thank you for being my constant, Lord, and author of my faith.”

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