SKIMMING OFF THE DROSS  4/06/08

HEARD:  Is there anyone willing to go through the process and have no mixture remain? 

VISION:  I saw a hand reached out and sweep over me and touch me.

EXPERIENCE:  Right after I saw the hand, I was gently quickened in my cells all over my body and felt like a layer had been swept off me.  It was like skimming dross off the top of something heated. 

DREAM:  I had a dream where all these lead nails were coming out of me. 

COMMENTS:  Jeff Jansen said that in some of his meetings, metal was literally coming out of the pores of people who had screws and rods in their bodies.  Even the next day after the meetings. 

HEARD:  All gone in Jesus Name.   Pronounced clean.

WORD TO PONDER: SKIMMING THE DROSS   4/06/08

I AM removing another layer off you, My beloved ones.  You have gone through a fiery circumstance and the dross in this has risen to the surface.  Fret not, this is My doing as I carefully watch over all that touches your life.  Like silver that is tried in a furnace, My Word in you is purified seven times.  I AM keeping you and preserving you through this.

Through these fires, I AM giving you My heart for the oppressed and the needy, for the widows and orphans.  I AM giving you My passion for justice.  I AM restoring My judges and counsel upon the earth.  My faithful ones shall reign in righteousness.

Prov 25:4-5  NKJV

Take away the dross from silver, And it will go to the silversmith for jewelry. Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Ps 12:5-7 NKJV

"For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now I will arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in the safety for which he yearns."  The words of the LORD are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.  You shall keep them, O LORD, You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

Isa 1:22-26  NKJV

Your silver has become dross, Your wine mixed with water. 23 Your princes are rebellious, And companions of thieves; Everyone loves bribes, And follows after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.  24 Therefore the Lord says, The LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, "Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries, And take vengeance on My enemies. 25 I will turn My hand against you, And thoroughly purge away your dross, And take away all your alloy. 26 I will restore your judges as at the first, And your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

Ezek 22:18-19  NKJV

"Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver.

CONFIRMATION:  COOKING THE SOUP!  4/11/08

I went to lunch with a friend this week and she was telling me how she cooks chicken and sets the broth in the fridge to let the fat rise so she can skim it off.  She was praying over me this AM and saw a picture, that my life is the pot over the fiery furnace and not only cooking out the impurities, but also pulling forth the richness of His gifts and callings that are deep within, so they can rise to the surface and be poured out. 

As I read this, I struck me as an amazing, multi dimensional Word with many “layers” from  both sides of the heating process. 

The other side is that He cooks us, heats up the circumstances and this separates the "bones" ... the stuff to spit out that are not a good reflection of Jesus..  Yet when we boil bones, it draws out the healthy minerals from the bones into the soup.   The bubbly froth that rises to the surface is the impurities to skim off as it boils, and the heat melts the fat of His anointing and mixes into the flavor.  

Sometimes after He has cooked His Word in us, He puts it into cold storage so the fat can rise and be separated.. as a sacrifice unto Him.  He leaves a portion for flavor and receives the rest for Himself. 

Lev 4:31  NKJV

He shall remove all its fat, as fat is removed from the sacrifice of the peace offering; and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a sweet aroma to the LORD .