The Crucible of Your Love
This morning – May 6, 2025, I was sorting through a handful of papers. I am a paper stacker 😊 and I was trying to eliminate things I no longer needed to keep. And there in the middle of the pile was this blog that I put together in the first weeks of April. As I read it over, and prayed, Holy Spirit told me it was time to publish it. I encourage you to read it carefully and read it to the end. It is full of God’s will for His Body.

April 9, 2025
It was a normal morning. I was up at 4:00, spending time with Abba. Sitting in the quiet, this song came to my spirit.
♪Purify my heart
Let me be as gold and precious silver
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold, pure gold.
Refiner’s fire
My heart’s one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You, Lord
I choose to be holy
Set apart for You, my Master
Ready to do your will.
(Song by Brian Doerksen ‧ 1997)

I continued to sing it and started praying.
Lord, in the CRUCIBLE of Your love,
Purify our hearts.

‘Crucible,’ I can’t ever remember saying that word in prayer or otherwise. I thought I knew what it meant, but because I’ve never used it, I did some digging.

This was the definition I found:
A crucible is a vessel typically made of heat-resistant material, used to melt or heat metal, allowing impurities to burn off, leaving behind a purer substance. It also means severe testing.

Then I went to scripture.

Proverbs 17:3
The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold,
But the Lord tests the hearts.

Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver;
He will purify the sons of Levi,
And purge them as gold and silver,
That they may offer to the Lord
An offering in righteousness.

In Jeremiah 9, the prophet cries out for rebellious Judah. And in verse 7, the LORD answers, “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘Behold, I will refine them and try them; for how shall I deal with the daughter of My people?”

God loves Judah and wants to restore them to a covenant relationship. Refining and trying are terms He used many times in the Bible to suggest that trials are necessary to turn His children around and move them back to a state of righteousness.

This does not sound like something any of us wants. Did God put that word in my mouth? It sure goes along with many of the words the prophets are saying today about intense shaking coming, but peace and freedom from bondage afterward.

My declaration is:
Lord, have Your way. I will not fear. I will trust in You. For you, LORD (the only self-existing Almighty God of heaven and earth and ultimate covenant keeper) are with me. You are my Shepherd, I shall not want. In You, I live and move and have my being. I dwell in You, LORD, stable and fixed under the shadow of Your wings, whose power no foe can withstand. Purify our hearts, LORD. Remove all that doesn’t look like You.

At this point, Holy Spirit prompted me to go back through my journals, and here is some of what I found. ( I will post more later this week)

June 14, 2019
Holy Spirit, I hear rumbling in the distance. My spirit is picking up on the advancing move. What do I need to know? Is there anything we need to do to prepare that we’ve not already done?

“Be still. In quietness and confidence is your peace. Rest in Me. I can and will alert you in a moment. You will hear, because you are listening and ready to respond. Pray for those who aren’t in this mode of readiness.

For I am shaking loose all that hinders, all that restrains My Body– Judgments, disobedience, apathy, reticence. I am blowing My breath over the coals and igniting hearts–Fire, fire, fire. I am bringing fire to quench and to purify. Let the fire burn.
Breathe in, Beloved, breathe in. You are My Beloved. You are My Bride. Soon and very soon, you are going to see your King. Royalty, Majesty, Peace, and Power.”

May 5, 2021
Abba, as I look this morning at the prophetic words and happenings, my question is—What is Your will? What are You doing?

“I am speaking of those things that are not as though they are and working in hidden places in the earth and heaven to restore this nation and others to righteousness. It’s My work and I am doing it. Soon, you will see in living color what I am creating. It will be a joy to many and a terror to the enemy. Hang on. It’s going to be a jerk and pull, bumpy ride. But the power button is Mine alone.”

April 10, 2022
Is there anything I need to know, Abba?
Yes, you need to know that I’ve got it ALL in MY hands and the enemy is in for the biggest surprise ever as all the pieces he’s plotted and placed are shattered in one breath, one word from My mouth. His arrogance will be exposed beyond anything imaginable. It’s time for redemption and restitution. He will be forced to pay back seven times. In fact, he will not be able to keep it from happening. The Great I AM is on the scene, and the enemy will be exposed beyond imagination. It will shatter the deception and bring people to their knees in repentance and sorrow over the sin masked behind the lying media and moguls of the day.

Crime and punishment will fill the news for months as revival fills the sports stadiums, beach fronts and bare land. Songs of praise will rise from this nation and ignite praise around the world. Your Redeemer is coming to redeem the years the locusts have eaten.

Prodigals will return. No name preachers will rise from the homeless and the downtrodden. CEO’s will restructure their companies in godly principles, and My kingdom will begin to be manifest in every city and town. It’s harvest time.

What I am about to do will demolish centuries of the blueprints of blood sport that the enemy has manipulated and put into place. You are about to see change beyond your wildest dreams. Change for good and not for evil, to give you a hope and a future.

Your God is not through with America. Your God is not through with the nations of the world. Your King is coming to do damage on the kingdom of darkness and bring forth miracles, signs, and wonders that the world has never seen.

Get ready to be amazed. Get ready to be humbled. For you will see Me move and realize your vision of Me has been too small, too familiar, too powerless. Worship will no longer be a word but a lifestyle when you see Who it is that you are worshiping.

I am shaking all that can be shaken to bring to the surface every hidden thing. Do not fear. Do not lose heart. The shaking is Me, and the stillness and peace to come is Me. I will carry you through. It’s time to celebrate.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Hebrews 12:25-27 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

June 10, 2022
Mary Ellen?
Yes, Lord.
Breathe deep of My peace. Soak in My PRESENCE. Difficult days are coming.
Watch the fluttering leaves and the weaving branches. They are shaken but not destroyed. They are firmly planted into the trunk that moves not.

Pick up the timbrel and dance in the shaking. I am holding you. The shaking is a time of celebration that will remove every chain or covering of fear.

December 21, 2022
I am the Alpha and Omega – the Beginning and the end. The Aleph and the Tav, the God of covenant. I am shaking all that can be shaken to reveal My covenant, My power, and My glory. The weapons of your warfare are mighty because they are Truth weapons. Truth cuts, Truth pierces. Truth removes doubt, fear, and disease.

Holy Spirit Truth will lead you in this hour of shaking. He holds your future in His hands. Listen to Him. Sit with Him for counsel. Walk with Him in obedience. There is no fear in love and He loves you beyond your words to describe. His Truth is your sure path through this valley of the shadow of death. You will fear NO evil, for I Am is with you. All you need, Beloved. ALL. Call on Me, run to Me before you speak. I will answer.
Arise, O LORD, let Your enemies be scattered.

Greater are those who are with you, Beloved. Hordes of angel armies battle in the heavenlies. Their weapons are My Word and My authority. The battle is yours. It’s already won. All that is left is the clean-up. The battle is won! The battle is won! Shout to the LORD.

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There are more journal notes to share, but I will post another blog this week with current pieces. God is speaking. He is preparing us for the greatest harvest this world has ever seen. There are many who don’t believe there will be a harvest. All they see is the doom and gloom of an enemy takeover. But there is so much more that God has in mind.
It is time to set aside our agendas and human thinking. It is time to listen to what the Spirit is saying, with hearts ready to respond to His calls to action.
May we respond to His word, is my prayer.

Shalom ♥

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