Category: The Fiery Furnace

  • Journal Entry: Blatant Attacks By The Enemy In Church

    I never expected to experience spiritual attack in church. But that’s exactly where the enemy came after me—and not just once. What I thought were feelings of discouragement and comparison were actually targeted strategies to keep me from healing, growing, and stepping into who God had called me to be. In this post, I unpack a journal entry from my early walk with Christ, revealing how the enemy tried to exploit my failures, but God used the very same moments to expose strongholds, deepen my faith, and begin a healing process I didn’t even know I needed.

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  • Called Into the Fire: Recognizing and Responding to God’s Refining Process

    The fiery furnace is not for everyone—it’s for those God calls into it. It’s a season of accelerated refinement, where comfort is stripped away, the pressure intensifies, and God invites you into complete surrender so you can become who He created you to be. In this post, I offer a high-level look at what the fiery furnace is, how to recognize if God is leading you into it, what to expect, and how to walk through it. If you’re in a season where nothing seems to make sense and everything familiar is falling away, this may be the clarity you’ve been praying for.

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  • Journal Entry: Introduction to The Ways of The Enemy

    I began to recognize how the enemy was subtly keeping me in bondage—not just through pity parties, but also through perfectionism. When I wasn’t drowning in self-pity, I was berating myself for not measuring up, expecting flawlessness, and striving in my own strength. Both postures—self-pity and self-judgment—kept me disconnected from God’s grace and focused on my own insufficiency. I started to see these thoughts for what they were: lies wrapped in emotional reasoning that sounded like my own voice but contradicted God’s truth. As I practiced taking every thought captive and replacing them with Scripture, I wasn't just shifting my mindset—I was stepping into spiritual warfare, silencing the enemy’s script, and walking in the freedom Christ already secured for me.

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  • Journal Entry: Revelation of the Purpose for the Fiery Furnace

    The revelation of the fiery furnace showed me what was possible—but it was just the beginning. It marked the moment I surrendered fully to God, and He began the deeper work in me: healing, pruning, transforming, and renewing. I came out of the fire on fire for Jesus, and that fire has fueled everything since. The impartation of the revelation has been the ongoing journey—the spiritual battles, breakthroughs, discipline, and devotion it has taken to become who I am in Christ and to walk out what He’s entrusted to me. It’s not just about the revelation—it’s about the process, the purpose, and the power of partnering with God to become whole, walk in Kingdom identity, and fulfill your calling.

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  • Journal Entry: The Confession and the Turning Point

    This journal entry captures the moment I surrendered not only my circumstances but also my mindset, confessing my fears and embracing a deeper trust in God. It was a turning point where I began to understand that true transformation comes through radical dependence on Him—not through hustle, strategy, or self-reliance. In the midst of financial crisis and personal uncertainty, God was softening my heart, reshaping how I saw suffering, and calling me into obedience that made His Word come alive. What began as brokenness became the foundation for a renewed purpose: to seek Him for Him alone.

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  • God Showed Me I Didn’t Know How to Care About People

    I used to think my businesses were about helping people, but God showed me otherwise. Standing by the Vltava River in 2014, I realized my ambitions had been fueled by a desire for financial freedom, not genuine care for others. The next day, when I felt an overwhelming urge to help a man in need but couldn’t move, God revealed the truth: I had never truly cared about people. That moment shattered me, and years later, in the fiery furnace, He reminded me of it. His calling had never changed—I had just needed to become the person who could walk in it. We can take detours, delay, or resist, but we cannot ruin what God has ordained. His calling stands.

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  • Journal Entries Highlighting the Surrendering Process

    I thought surrender meant trusting God to lead me to the right business, the right strategy, the right opportunities. But surrender wasn’t about what I would do—it was about who I was becoming. I had spent my life measuring success by outcomes, by accomplishments, by the tangible proof that I was moving forward. Yet, in the fire of refinement, God was stripping away my need to produce, to plan ahead of Him, to validate my worth through work. He wasn’t just shifting my focus; He was rewriting my identity. And that kind of transformation doesn’t come through striving—it comes through surrender.

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  • Breaking the Cycle: How God Led Me to Surrender

    I spent years fighting for a breakthrough, convinced that if I just worked harder, pushed through, and figured out the right steps, everything would finally fall into place. But looking back at my journal entries from 2021 and 2022, I see how consumed I was—not just with striving but with an internal battle that was wearing me down. The enemy played on my fears, frustrations, and wrong beliefs, keeping me trapped in a cycle of desperation and defeat. I thought God had abandoned me in the struggle, but He was there—allowing the fire to refine me, exposing the lies I had built my life upon, and leading me to the only breakthrough that truly mattered: surrender. The battle wasn’t about my business or my circumstances—it was about letting go of self-reliance, resisting the enemy’s deceptions, and trusting God fully to transform me from the inside out.

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