Great Gain

On January 2 I wrote in my journal, 'Godliness with contentment is great gain - have to study that". If I would have studied that as the Spirit was telling me to I would have found some truth ahead of getting burned in the fire. Not that it would have penetrated but it might have helped a bit.

I have come through the fire and for all of you currently inside the flames I will say it burns like hell. Or it burns up hell. That burning you are feeling is awful and the stench of burning flesh is awful. Just in case you weren't clear on how much pain you were in. Sometimes it is good to declare how bad it hurts.

Moving on to being outside the fire I can tell you that you will exit and the real you will be just fine, better than before actually, and the old you will be burned to death. That's the good news, part of you gets burned to death and has to conform with the truth of the cross and who you are in Christ. You can't keep it alive anymore because you don't want that kind of pain again and have made up your mind it can bloody well die. Mark my words - you will not emerge with the old self alive. You will emerge in victory.

Truth, real truth, not the made up stuff, will then flood your mind as the Spirit teaches you all things. For me it's: Godliness with contentment is great gain.

I am Godly but I am not content. Or I should say I was not content. After the fire I am learning what content means and I can say I understand that I can be content with what I have, what I don't have and what might happen. In all circumstances I can be content.

Great gain is mine, all it took was a blast of fire to get me to understand and believe it. I really wish there was another way but that's what it took for me.

If you're in the fire right now I pray for you: "God, keep them in your hand as they go through the fire, draw so close they can feel you walk with them through the valley of the shadow of death. They need you Papa, be real and hustle them through the fire as fast as possible".

Pa