Publisher's Synopsis
Refiner's fire
The concept of the refiner's fire is a powerful biblical metaphor for the process of purification and spiritual transformation. Just as a refiner uses fire to purify gold and silver, removing all impurities and imperfections, God uses trials, discipline, and divine intervention to purify His people. This imagery illustrates how suffering, challenges and even divine correction serve as tools to bring believers closer to God, making them holy and fit for His purpose.This book was inspired by a sermon by my senior pastor on the topic of little foxes, & another by a street preacher on the subject of opening our hearts to God for we are prisoners in our hearts, & the story metamorphosed with a vision from God. One early morning at around 5 am I woke up to pray & opened my heart to God to show me things holding me back from success & being a good effective leader, & this is what God revealed to me in a vision. There are six spirits that I have to battle & overcome to be successful. This is my story and reflects the heart of men, especially the hidden sins and iniquities in our lives. May God help us in the journey of purification & purging. Psalms 51:7-15 MSG "Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. Tune me into foot-tapping songs, and set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Please don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from grey exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Please give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise." Leadership failures 1. Speech - Big mouth-Less talking & more listening & more action.
2. Pride - Big head, Be humble it's not always about you.
3. Vision- Blindness- Blind to the will of God. Blindness to the needs of society & people you lead. It would help if you also watched what you see as lacking compassion.
4. Lust-Lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh. When possessed with this spirit it forces the person to desire what it doesn't have.
5. Knowledge- In the Garden of Eden, there was a fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good & evil. What knowledge are you pursuing?
6. Vacant temples.-Your bodies are the temple of the lord. What possesses you? Whom do you serve? Who is your master?
