Strength Under Pressure
The LORD is gracious, compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and rich in His loving kindness and care for us.
The LORD doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve or cause pay back for our iniquities and as far as the east is from the west He remembers our sins and transgressions no more.
“Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10.
“Many have never surrendered to the process of the Refiner’s Fire. It’s a place where total surrender is acquired under extreme heated pressure.
It is in the heat of the passion for Christ that you are pressured and pressed down to such a degree that you are conformed to My Will.
You are like a diamond in the rough. You are predestined to be conformed to My Will as you surrender your soul and body ‘willingly’ in the furnace of affliction.
You wondered why such extreme trials, heat and deep pressure that when people see you or hear you they are perplexed and cannot understand it, so they blow you off.
There’s a reason why you have felt so alone even amid people, AND that everyone seems to be running the opposite way… Not many people run to the furnace of affliction,” says The LORD.
Diamonds are the hardest and most valuable of precious stones. Diamonds were created and formed in the earth, a process that took millions or billions of years through the extreme pressures of the earth and temperatures of 1600C and the depth of 125 miles below the Earth’s surface. The diamond is known for being used for hard cutting with other minerals and rendered adamant.
“Diamonds are known for their beauty. In the hand of the master artisan the diamond is of very rare distinctions. Diamonds are taken and made into something very beautiful that reflects light on many facets of the fire.
That is how you are, created to endure hardness, and great pressures and temperatures that were designed to form a hardness and unmovable faith to be displayed as something most beautiful,” says The LORD.
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars,” Jeremiah 17:1.
“I have made your forehead like emery (diamond), harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.” Ezekiel 3:9.
“Tough times demand tough preparations. Though the enemy comes in like a flood I shall lift up a standard against them. You are that prepared standard, and I AM always triumphs over the enemy.
People have misunderstood and judged you and stood far off. Yet they were perplexed, being motivated by fear because it was unfamiliar territory planned in advance, making an entrance into the earth on the road less traveled.
Yea, I have determined beforehand having predestined and formed you for just such times and I have ordained and knew you before time began.”
“For He chose us in Him before the foundations of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His Will,” Ephesians 1:4-5
“Forerunners are often misunderstood for these are those who speak ahead to prepare the remnant and the earth for My coming,” says The LORD.
“Yet ye are unique and genuine living thy life as pure and holy before Me, yet the world and the captives of this world attempt to disregard and silence My Voice,” says The LORD.
There are many prophecies that are yet to be fulfilled in this age and the age to come, long after the messenger’s death on the earth.
“For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18.
In HIS Grace and Mercy,
~ Sherry Edwards Mackey
Sherry Edwards Mackey
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This such a Powerful Word! Thank YOU Lord. Thank you Sherry.
Powerful post, Sherry. Sharing. ❤️