“Great shall be My refining of you. Yes, I will refine you, My People. What happens in refining? Dross leaves. Purity comes. Purity is left to shine when all the dross is removed. The true making of the gold, the silver. Its creation and how the Lord God designed it.

“Do you understand this, My People? You were made in perfection. My Perfection. You were not made covered with sin. The world and its sin taints you. Entices you and covers you to the extent you allow it to do so. Your process with Me of refining is not a process of putting on My Purity and Perfection. It is indeed the same as refining of gold and silver. The refining process TAKES OFF. What is left is of Me. The creation of you as I designed you. The world taints you. Your enemy calls you to live in such a way that invites darkness into your soul. They invite you, entice you, to live in rebellion and pride against Me. These – and all the results of these – are the dross that I take off as you allow Me to. This is a process that requires your consent. I do not force the dross off of you. I do not push you into the fire of My refining. I lead you there gently – as you allow Me to do so.

“Do you want to live in My Holiness? My Purity? Allow Me to lead you into the fire of My Refining. This requires your ALL. It requires your full obedience and willingness for Me to lead you as I choose. What if I ask you to give up certain things for Me? Do you realize that these things are in actuality for the goodness of YOU? I want only your good and your Purity. I long to take you back to My pure design of you.

“I invite you to this now. Get on your knees before Me and invite Me to refine you to My Perfection. Say YES now to all I shall ask of you in the process. Say YES – and shine in My Glory. Any dross left upon you is an open door, an invitation for your enemy to step into and use. Take advantage of. Exploit. Why give him this open door? Why allow such invitation to your enemy? Your allowance of your enemy to work within your thoughts and your words and your deeds creates a barrier between you and Me. My work in you is then stymied. Held back. I will come to you again and again, speaking My Truth to you. Calling you to My Refinement. But every time you say no to Me, your heart is hardened against Me, and your ears grow more dull.

“If this has been your stance before Me, get on your knees right now in full repentance. Ask Me to take all of this imperfection off of you and lead you to My Perfection. And understand this is a day-to-day battle. Your walk with Me of Perfection is forged in your daily, even moment-to-moment, choices. Do not look only to big events in your life of My doing. Yes, I do shower upon those whom I pursue My supernatural events. But even these will not sustain you. You are sustained by your minute-to-minute choice of Me over the world and its enticements – in any form.

“Do you long for My Refining of you? I stand right before you, offering. Come to Me – and receive. And walk accordingly in your receiving. Amen.”
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Notes:

Malachi 3:3: He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver.

Zechariah 13:9:  I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them.

Proverbs 17:3: The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
but the Lord tests hearts.

Proverbs 25:4: Remove the dross from the silver, and a silversmith can produce a vessel.

Psalm 66:10: For You have put us to the test, God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

Job 23:10: But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Daniel 12:10: Many will be purged, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

I Thessalonians 5:23-24: Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will do it.

Psalm 139:13-16: For You created my innermost parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, skillfully formed in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my formless substance; And in Your book were written all the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.

I Peter 1:15-16: …but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

I John 1:7: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.