The Prophet's Devotional by Jennifer LeClaire

Author:Jennifer LeClaire
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780768457636
Publisher: Destiny Image, Inc.

— Prayer —

Father, in the name of Jesus, teach me Your protocols for prophetic ministry so that I don’t stray beyond the banks of Your prophetic river into error. Help me to avoid prophetic malpractice that hurts the hearers instead of building them up in love.

JUNE 27

Entering the Furnace of Affliction

“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction” (Isaiah 48:10 NKJV).

The people to whom Isaiah had prophesied these words had just gone through a major enemy attack. They were afflicted. Affliction is “a cause of persistent pain or distress, great suffering.” It means “anguish, grief, sorrow, heartache, and woe,” according to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary. There’s suffering for what you did wrong and there’s suffering for what you did right, but there’s also suffering to become who you are supposed to be. God allows you to go through the furnace of affliction to purify you.

I heard the Lord say:

When you’re in this furnace of affliction, if you’ll get your mind off yourself and begin to get your mind on Me—if you’ll get your mind off yourself and begin to get your mind on others who have it worse than you—you will see a measure of freedom and a self-sacrificing attitude that will bring you out of the furnace of affliction faster than any measure of self-pity ever would or ever could.

So, begin to see things the way that I see them. And, understand and know that I am refining you. And, although you’re miserable and although you feel like you’ll never emerge, you will emerge and you’ll emerge with more anointing. You’ll emerge from the wilderness like Jesus did, with more power. You will emerge and you will rise faster than you ever could have carrying the weight of the seasons of the past. For I am burning away those things which hinder love.

I am burning off the mindsets and the characteristics that are not of Me. I am taking you to a new level of glory in the furnace of affliction. I am birthing in you a movement of prayer. …Your first response when you begin to feel the fire will be to cry out to Me—looking for Me; searching for Me; understanding, as David did, that I will never leave you without help, that I will always deliver you because of My kindness. I will always deliver you because I delight in you. I will always deliver you from the furnace of affliction at the right time.

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