REFINED FAITH

“Therefore I counsel you to purchase from Me gold refined and tested by fire, that you may be [truly] wealthy, and white clothes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nudity from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, that you may see.” Revelation 3:18 (AMPC) Please pray before reading.

Remnant, what exactly is this gold, refined and tested by fire, which we are being counseled to purchase? It is our faith, our ability to fully trust and rely on Him! There is a realm that God wants us to remain tapped into, where we walk in faith always, with all spiritual cataracts of unbelief removed from our eyes. It is a refined faith that is much more precious than refined gold, the kind of faith that removes all carnality from us and strips from us all the natural thoughts of the flesh. 

“…the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,” 1 Peter 1:7 (NKJV)

As we venture into this next verse, we will see that God has a remnant, and we are that remnant! We are the third left in the land that have been refined in our faith, have come through the fire victoriously, and have already overcome every agent of the antichrist, because greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world!

“And it shall come to pass in all the land,” Says the LORD, “That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die, But one–third shall be left in it: I will bring the one–third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” Zechariah 13:8-9 (NKJV)

Thus, here is the remnant’s prophecy: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death”. Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

It is by hearing the Word of God that our faith increases. It is by stepping out in that faith that we are tried, refined, and come to spiritual maturity!