Tag: fiery furnace

  • 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.

    The Fiery Furnace

  • 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.

    Journal Entry, The Fiery Furnace

  • 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.

    Journal Entry, The Fiery Furnace