YOUR PAST 5 YEARS WERE NOT WASTED. A HOLY PREPARATION— PURIFIED FOR THE OUTPOURING.

For many, the last 5 years have been a furnace season— a time of refining so deep that even the foundations of your life felt shaken.

But the Lord says,

“I have not abandoned you in the fire, I have refined you in it.”

Just as the Lord spoke through the prophet Isaiah:

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

This has not been punishment. It has been purification. It has been the setting apart of those who will carry His glory in the days ahead.

THE FIRE IS AN INVITATION TO ENCOUNTER ME

“Do not despise the fire, for it is in the fire that you will see My face.”

Just as Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego discovered in Daniel 3, the fire that was meant to consume them became the place where their bonds were burned off, the Fourth Man appeared, and the glory of God was revealed to a watching world. So too, in your life; what tried to destroy you will only revealed the One who walks with you.

PURIFICATION BEFORE THE COMMISSIONING

Before God promotes, He purifies.
Before He releases, He refines.
Before He expands, He tests the vessel!

Just as Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up in Isaiah 6, he could not step into his prophetic commissioning until the coal touched his lips.

“The coal you felt was not to harm you, but to prepare you. I have cleansed your mouth, purified your motives, and strengthened your spirit. I have made you ready for the call that is now upon your life!”

THE SHAKING WAS NECESSARY

Hebrews 12:27–28 declares that God shakes what can be shaken so only that which is unshakeable remains.

Many believers have cried out, “Lord, why has it been so hard?”

“I allowed the shaking so that the false foundations would fall. I allowed the pressure so that what was hidden would surface. I allowed the fire so that who I made you to be would be revealed.”

EMERGING IN HIS IMAGE

2 Corinthians 3:18 says we are being transformed into His image from glory to glory.

What fell away was never meant to carry you into the next season. You are emerging from the fire carrying His likeness, His Purity and His heart. You have been stripped of what hindered you so that His glory may be seen in you and nothing els.

“I am preparing My purified ones to carry new assignments, new authority, and new revelation. This next outpouring is not for the casual but for the consecrated. Not for the comfortable, but for the yielded. Not for those clinging to the old wine-skins, but for those who let Me shape them in the fire.”

WALK FORWARD WITHOUT FEAR.

For you have passed through the waters, and you will not be swept away. You have walked through the fire, and you were not burned. Isaiah 43:2

“Step forward then! The season of purification has produced vessels ready for My outpouring. What I release next will flow through those who remained faithful in the fire!”

Kaylie Hollins