Monday July 13th, 2026
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24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.
25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
When gold is found, it is in its raw state.
It is undesirable and filled with impurities.
Raw gold must first be purified with fire before it reaches its full potential and becomes useful.
Our Bible reading for today says that after God has taken you out from the heathen (the world, non-believers ),
He will pass you through the process of purification .
When you met Christ, you were in your raw state.
God cannot leave you in that contaminated state because you can only be useful to Him after you’ve been purified .
To purify you, He will need to introduce fire.
- There are two types of fire God usually uses to purify.
The first one is the fire of the Holy Ghost.
Peter was one of the first people called by the Lord Jesus Christ in Mark 3:13-19, but he had one little problem:
he was always afraid, and the devil discovered this weakness.
That is why, on the day Jesus was arrested, the devil brought three people to test Peter, knowing that he would be too afraid to identify openly with Jesus.
Indeed, Peter denied Jesus three times.
The devil was happy that he had gotten Peter but thankfully,
Jesus had prayed for him so he repented and found his way back to God.
Now, if Peter was going to be useful to God, Jesus needed to do something about the fear contaminating his heart,
so He purified him by fire.
On the day of Pentecost, when the fire fell on all the disciples, Jesus was purifying them to make them useful.
Immediately that fire sat on the head of Peter; it consumed the fear in him, Acts 2:1-47.
The man who used to be afraid suddenly became very bold.
The contamination was removed by the fire of the Holy Spirit.
- The Holy Ghost Baptism is a refining fire that takes away impurities in the life of a believer .
If you are truly baptised – that is, after sanctification (setting oneself apart for God), then that fire will burn off all impurities in you.
Note that a person may speak in tongues, but if they are not yet fully surrendered to Christ, if thier heart is still after the things of this world, they cannot be purified.
Sanctification must happen first before the individual can truly be purified by the fire of the Holy Ghost.
Application – Father, please purify me with Your fire today.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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