Hello Friends!
I would like to take this time to identify the primary purpose of the Refining blog. This blog is designed to gently support your personal relationship with God by strengthening your reliance on scripture and the Holy Spirit. Through each posting, it is fundamentally intended to be a loving and encouraging place where your spiritual growth can be nurtured and your eternal journey can be strengthened.
Life struggles are real and often reveal a deeper need beyond the surface level of our human flesh. They are often opportunities to grow in Christ. It can entail a few key aspects of spiritual maturity – to learn how to fully surrender, to accept a growth voyage of the entire measure of our God-given purpose, to foster a Godly perspective, and to discover unexplainable joy.
Refining arose from a couple of topics: from my own experience with years of unfulfilled joy, direction, and purpose, and from bearing witness to an intense, dismal gorge for half a decade. Although I loved God and considered myself a Christ follower, I was caught off-guard and found myself inadequately prepared when raging storms prevailed continually for five solid years. The struggle unearthed a deeper revelation in my personal story where essential elements were missing: infusion of scripture in my daily walk, Godly living 24/7 for His purpose, and personal identification in the Lord Most High.
Life dispenses mountain top and low valley occurrences for each of us as a chance to cultivate our spiritual development. Refining was birthed as a provision to strengthen your adaptation to the ebb and flow of life and nurture your competence to embrace a lifetime of refinement under God’s authority. God furnished me an effective message and now I want to ensure you are never caught off-guard nor poorly-equipped in the spiritual battle of life.
Let’s walk together and become mighty warriors. Reach out and share your life in this space designed to Glorify the King. Come open your hearts to God’s perspective and share this resource with other Christians in order continue the growth for God. You matter! Your experiences and life circumstances contain valuable information for others to gain knowledge and wisdom. Refining would love to share your writings and thoughts in the days ahead. There are readers out there needing your story to encourage them in their walk as well.
May your heart be filled with God’s goodness and nourishment through Refining in 2020. Come follow Refining on Facebook and see what is happening in our face-to-face sessions as well as additional spiritual support. Invite others to become followers of the Refining blog. Share what you have learned. God has some exciting plans in the future. I look forward to His provisions and callings. We give Him all the praise for the lives impacted as we walk out our faith together.
Happy 2020 my friends.
Refining [Spiritual Growth] 
Thank you Genna! I really needed you and this blog during this current valley of my life. My purpose, overall is to glorify God, but I am a newer believer who struggles with a lot of personal complications, mostly my mind, and the balance between certain fields of “science” and being a believer. I know God understands me, but I am 40 this year and nobody has ever understood the things I do, say, or think, even if I truly am trying to bring glory to God Almighty. Just feeling lost these past two weeks and I fear I am about to become spiritually bankrupt.
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Hi Lori, This blog is designed to nurture your faith and encourage you. You are not alone. The Almighty God loves you immensely. It is through pain and a dark valley that I am able to be used by Him. Saturate your mind with scripture and fill your thoughts with His amazing love. You are His precious child. Hugs to you my sister.
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Thank you. Prov 18:1 ESV is what I have been meditating on. I read a Prov everyday according to the day of the month. I do not isolate purposefully.
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So I read Proverbs 18 yesterday, and it rumenated.
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