- Psalm 12:6
- The words and
promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined
in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over.
God has plans and promises for
your life! Tremendous plans and strategies that will lead
you to success and victory. Plans that will prosper you,
develop you and make you a solid, well rounded person,
poised to bless the generations to come. The Lord reveals
these plans through His words deposited in your life.
Activated Potential
According to Psalm 12:6 the
words and promises of the Lord are pure. Pure here means "to
be bright, to be pure, unadulterated, uncontaminated,
clean". When the Lord speaks into your life you know
confidently that what is deposited in you is clean, pure,
holy, right and bright. His words does not carry
contaminants of humanism, materialism, unbelief, sin, or
worldly things. They carry His complete will for your life,
along with the power to accomplish that revealed will. When
deposited into your spirit His promises become activated
potential that will help you produce and realize what was
promised and said. According to John 1:1-14 we know that
Jesus is the Word of God. As the Living Word of God He
actively works in you to accomplish what you could not on
your own. He orchestrates things behind the scenes of the
natural realm to thrust you towards Divine destiny.
Like Silver Purified in an
Earthen Furnace
We read in 2 Corinthians 4:7
that we carry a precious treasure in earthen vessels that
the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be
shown to be from God and not from ourselves. The God portion
in you is the precious treasure carried in the unlikely,
porous, brittle and breakable you! When we tie this verse
with Psalm 12:6 we find an amazing revelation. Our earthen
vessel becomes an earthen furnace in which the words and
promises of God in us are purified seven times over! The
Hebrew word for furnace speaks of the process of completing
something. This is a beautiful thought. The words and
promises of the Lord is completed, perfected, activated in
you by process of fire. Add the fire of God ( Hebrews 12:29,
Psalm 97:3, Isaiah 6:6-7, Matthew 3:16) to the word of God
in you and your spirit becomes a fiery furnace that
compliments and completes the words God spoke to you!
It is interesting to note that
the enemy will threaten you with a fiery furnace to
intimidate you not to stand on the convictions of your
faith. (Just like he did to Daniel's friends in Daniel 3)
He'll use scary tactics to keep you out of the fiery
furnace. Ever wondered why? Because in the fiery furnace the
word of God is activated. Daniel's friends met with Jesus
amidst the fire! Do not let the enemy douse the Holy Spirit
fire in you. Without that fire you are no more than a
brittle clay pot. With that fire burning you are the furnace
that causes the words and promises of God to be completed
and activated in you!
The word "purified" here means
to strain, to extract, to clarify. It is in the furnace of
your soul where the Lord can extract specific, clear and
"now" revelations and words from His whole council to lead
you towards your destiny. Seven denotes perfection in the
Bible. This process of allowing the words and promises of
the Lord to be engulfed in the fire of the Holy Spirit in
you renders the end product a perfectly pure instruction or
word or promise more valuable than before.
So allow the words and the
promises of the Lord in you to be tempered and purified
seven times over. May every word you hold onto consist of
the full council of God for your life devoid of any and all
contaminants. May your initial and partial interpretations
make way for the true Divine revelation and council
regarding all that is in you! Allow that every prophetic
promise given to you time in the earthen furnace of your
soul. Ask the Lord from Whom all blessings flow to breath
and burn on the promise so the end result be a pure,
unadulterated and tangible blessing in your life!
