The Refiner’s Fire
Ezekiel 22:17-30
August 15-16, 2026
Thank you for allowing me a little time off. As I think Matthew mentioned, I had surgery and my prostate cancer, but they think they got it all, and I'm back, and so praise God for that.
I have been chomping at the bit. I couldn't wait to get back, so excited. Let's open our Bibles to Ezekiel Chapter 22, and we'll begin in verse 17. Of course, we're going through the whole Bible, and we're in the book of Ezekiel. We cover the other verses around this at our midweek verse-by-verse, chapter-by-chapter study. The title of our message, The Refiner's Fire. Very important what God has for us in His word today.
Let's pray together and receive from God's word. Lord, thank you for sending your word to reveal your heart to bless our lives. God, stir up revival, pour out your spirit of grace and of life, and use the word to strengthen us in our faith. We pray in Jesus' name. Everyone said-
It's been a few weeks since we've been in Ezekiel, and it's good to remember, of course, why this book is so important. Ezekiel is a prophet to the children of Israel there in Babylon. The people are in exile there. The nation has been defeated. Babylon has come in two waves so far, besieging the city, taking people captive, bringing them into exile. There will be one more wave, which we're going to read about, where they come, besiege the city, take everyone there captive, they leave a few of the poor and the weak behind.
As I mentioned before, God had prophetically declared that God intended to do a great work of transformation of the exiles living in Babylon. Yes, they're going through in the fire. They're going through a tragedy and a great trouble, but God intended to use it for transforming them through it. Now, as I mentioned before, hardship itself is not enough, right? You need more than that. You need the hand of God moving. You need the word of God spoken. You need the Holy Spirit poured out. That's why God used Ezekiel that he would speak God's heart to them there in Babylon.
Now, before this story is over, God says he's going to put a new heart and a new spirit within them, and they will never again pursue the idols of the world that got them into all this trouble. They will seek him, and they will find him there in the land of Israel, and it will be a time of revival. All right, here we are in Ezekiel 22, and God is showing Israel that Jerusalem is about to go through the refiner's fire. It'll be the third wave, the great besieging, the final downfall, but He uses the analogy of a smelter, a refiner, in refining them there.
Now, this is a picture that they would certainly understand, right? Artisans and smelters were common in Israel. Silver and gold coins were used in the marketplace regularly, and goldsmiths, silversmiths would make fine jewelry with it, of course. The refiner they understood, the analogy they got. The refiner would use heat to melt the ore in the crucible. The impurities would rise to the top. The silver and gold, of course, settling to the bottom. Why? Because the silver and the gold were heavy, and the impurities, the dross, were worthless, and light, must be removed and thrown away.
The result was something of great value, something highly sought after, highly desirable. We understand it's an analogy that we can relate to also. God is still refining our lives. Now, the problem, of course, is that while we understand it, we don't like it. While we understand the necessity of the refining work of God on the soul, we don't like it at all. We tend to focus on the fact that fire means heat, and heat means difficulty, or trouble, or pain, or pressure. The result of the refining work of God is the value on the soul being transformed into the weight of the beauty of glory.
I mentioned before that the word glory in Hebrew literally comes from the word for weight, gravitas. The weight of glory transforms the soul by it. In other words, if we could see the beauty and the value of what God is doing in the refining in the refiner's fire, then we could keep our eyes fixed on the glory of the transformed soul and endure with much patience the process of refining.
It's very much like James 1:2–4, where he says, "Consider it all a joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith," it's the same word, "produces," something glorious, "endurance. And then let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be complete, perfect, lacking in nothing." All right, let's read it. We're in Ezekiel 22. We'll begin in verse 17, as I mentioned. We'll cover the other verses in our Wednesday study, but we begin in verse 17.
"The word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are bronze, and tin, and iron, and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver. Therefore, thus says the Lord God, Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I'm going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem,'" right? Jerusalem is the pot, and he's going to bring a fire.
Notice verse 20. "As they gather silver, and bronze, and iron, and lead, and tin in the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I also shall gather you in anger and wrath, and there lay you and melt you." It's the refining process. "I will gather you, and I'll blow on you with the fire of my wrath, that you will blow in a fire and you will melt there in the midst of it."
It's the purifying work of God. "As silver is melted in the furnace, so you will be melted in the midst of it, and then you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out wrath on you. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, say to her,' say to Israel, say to Jerusalem, say, 'You are a land not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.'" No, that would be blessing. No, this is what's wrong.
Notice verse 25. "There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst," this is not right, "like roaring lions tearing the prey. They've devoured lives. They've taken treasure and precious things, and they've made many widows there in the midst of her." That's not right. "The priests have done violence to my word, my law." No, priests, you're supposed to be teaching the law to strengthen and edify and call the people to a greater place in the Lord. No, this isn't what's happening. "They have profaned my holy things." Well, that's not right.
"They made no distinction between the holy and the profane." Oh, there's a great distinction. "They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean." Oh, there's a great difference. This isn't right. "They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I myself am profaned among them," among the priests. This isn't right. "Her princes, her leaders among them, they're like wolves tearing prey, shedding blood, destroying lives in order for getting dishonest gain."
That's not right. Leaders are supposed to protect and strengthen and lead. Her prophets are supposed to speak a prophetic word, and speak a word that draws them to the Lord. No, they've smeared whitewash over them. You know what that is. You paint white paint over a mess to make it look like it's something when it isn't. "They see false visions, divining lies, saying, 'Thus says the Lord God,' when the Lord God did not speak. The people of the land practiced oppression. They commit robbery. They wronged the poor." That's not right. You got to be supporting and encouraging the poor and the needy, "And they've oppressed the sojourner without justice."
Then verse 30 is the big culminating verse. "I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap," is there anyone, anyone that could intercede with a heart after God? "that I should not destroy it. He says, "No, I found no one." All right. These are the verses we want to look at and see how God would apply it to our lives.
I. Silver is Impure in its Natural State
I want to begin with this this understanding. He's using an analogy of refining silver, but I want us to begin by this, that silver is impure in its natural state. The natural state of silver in the mountain, whatever, is very, very impure. Verse 18, "Son of man, the house of Israel, they're like dross to me. Bronze, tin, iron, lead, they're all dross of silver." That's why the refining process is so necessary. Do you know how much impurity is in silver ore? Of course, it depends. Some ore is more impure than others. Of course, that's the picture of the analogy of the soul. We know that some souls are more impure than others, right, but I was doing some research.
There's a mine in Nevada, it's the Cortez-Rochester Mine, and they have to use one-and-a-half to three tons of waste ore in order to produce one troy ounce of silver. That's amazing. One and a half, three tons of waste ore in order to get one, just one ounce of pure silver. Now, in other words, what comes out of the ground is mostly worthless. In its natural state, ore is very impure. Now, we get the point immediately. He's talking about the condition of man. He's talking about the condition of the soul. You and I were born in the condition of man in all its ugliness, right?
That's the natural state. That's the natural condition in which we were all born, and if something doesn't happen, then we will die in the same condition in which we were born, in all of its ugliness. You can see it. You can see it in children. For example, you don't have to teach a child to be selfish. They know that all by themselves. You don't have to teach a child to lie. You don't have to teach a child to throw a temper tantrum. They do that because it's the nature in which they were born. It's their natural condition. See, in other words, a person sins because they're born a sinner. We should not be surprised. We should not be shocked. Of course not.
A sinner is born in that condition. A person does selfish and self-centered things because they were born selfish and self-centered. It's like Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. Who can understand it?" There it describes the condition of man, desperately sick. See, a sinner is by nature a sinner. A sinner does sinful things. We are not surprised. This is the nature of which they're born. Everyone is born with that nature.
Every animal has a nature that is different from another. For example, a dog does dog things because that's their nature. A cat does cat things, which is different than dog things, because a cat has a cat nature. For example, a dog thinks of you as a friend. A cat thinks of you as a servant. A dog likes to be on the bed with you because he likes being with you. A cat likes being on your bed because your cat likes your bed. They're different. See, a cat does cat things. A dog is a dog, a cat is a cat, a horse is a horse, unless of course it's a horse by the name of Mr. Ed.
If you don't know what that joke's about, look at someone who's old and say, "What does that mean?" By the way, reminds me, I mentioned before, the state of Minnesota put together a commission. They had a problem with crime, and they wanted to know what makes a criminal a criminal. What is the nature of a criminal? They wanted to understand it, of course. They put together this big commission, and so I want to read to you their grand conclusion.
Again, this is the state of Minnesota, so you know it's accurate, and this is what they wrote. Here's the grand conclusion: "Every baby starts life as a little savage." Great opening. "He is completely selfish and self-centered. He wants what he wants when he wants it, his bottle, his mother's attention, his playmate's toy. Deny him these wants and he seethes with rage and aggressiveness, which would be murderous were he not so helpless.
He is dirty, he has no morals, no knowledge, and no skills. This means that all children, not just certain children, are born delinquent. If permitted to continue in the self-centered world of his infancy, given free rein to his impulsive actions to satisfy his wants, every child will grow up to be a criminal, a thief, a killer, or a rapist." That is describing the condition of man in which he was born. By the way, it is a very biblical truth. That is the condition of man, and something must happen. Something's got to change.
Now, the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that hearts can be changed, lives can be changed, lives can be transformed, hearts can be softened, hard hearts can be broken, stones can be moved, thistles can be uprooted, how? Because something happens. God moves, right? God opens eyes so that they see what they did not see before. God opens ears so that they hear what they did not hear before. They can understand what they did not understand before. God gives new desires to desire what they never desired before. God is changing lives, and He is still on the move, and there are many testimonies in this very room that God is transforming lives. Anybody want to add a yes and amen to their lives? Amen.
A. Heat separates the impurities
It's like 2nd Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." God is doing a work. Something can happen. Old things passed away. Behold, new things have come, and these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ Jesus. Now, going back to the analogy, the picture of the refiner's fire, we got to notice this, that heat separates the impurities. Got to have heat. Heat is necessary for the process. For without heat, the natural state remains. Nothing will be changed. Pressure, heat, trials, convictions, they reveal what's hidden in the heart, and it comes to the surface so that it can be removed. God wants you to see it.
You look through the whole book of Ezekiel, and He does this many times. God wants you to see it, right? This is the work that God is doing with you. You and God. God says, "I will show this to you." Maybe God is wrestling with you because you keep resisting Him, and you keep stubbornly holding onto your old ways. He wants you to see it. See it, the necessity of the refining fire.
I was thinking of illustrations. It's the fire that transforms. For example, when Jesus told Peter that Peter would deny Him that very night three times. He said, "Before the rooster crows in the morning, you will yourself have denied Me three times." Now, it's one thing to say it. It's another thing to go through the fire of it. See, when Jesus said that to Peter, "Peter, this very night, you will have denied Me three times," Peter didn't immediately break. "Oh, no," and fall into despair and weeping. No. He had to go through the fire of it.
The night that Jesus was arrested and they brought Him to Caiaphas' house for that false trial, Peter's out there in the courtyard, and someone says to him, "Are you not one of His disciples?" He said, "No, I am not." Then someone says, "Wait, you have a Galilean accent. You are one of His disciples." "No, I tell you, I am not." Then someone says, "Wait, I saw you in the garden. You are one of His disciples." Then he says, "I tell you, I don't know the man." Then, to be more convincing, he does it with cussing. He's a fisherman, so he understood cussing pretty well, and he's like, "I tell you, I don't know the man." Blankity blank, blank, blank. Oh, that's convincing.
It's at that moment, Jesus looked at him. They met eyes. Again, you can say a lot with eyes. I think Jesus would have said, "Peter, did I not say? Did I not say?" Peter just broke and wept bitterly, deeply. He ran from the courtyard, broken. It wasn't the words that Jesus said, "Tonight, you will betray me." No, it was the heat of the fire that broke him.
Now, the story of Peter here will end quite beautifully. It will end in Galilee after the resurrection when Jesus restores Peter. "Peter, do you love me? Then feed my sheep." He restores him in love. He restores him to purpose. It's the heat, the pressure, the pain of going through the fire. God is wanting you to see that that which he's doing is good.
This one, Psalm 139:23-24. David's writing, "Search me, God, know my heart, test me, know my anxious thoughts, see if there is any hurtful way in me and lead me in the way that is everlasting." God, you say you want me to see it, then show it to me. I say to you, God, search me, know me, test me, examine my heart, know my anxious thoughts, see if there's any hurtful way in me, show me the way, the way that is everlasting. It's like Proverbs 17:3, "The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord is testing hearts." Now, in the analogy, we need to see this also in the story.
B. Sometimes the heat is on simmer
Sometimes the heat is on simmer. Here's what I mean. This besieging of Jerusalem went on for 18 long months. Sometimes God allows us to stay in the heat of the thing way longer than we want, way longer than we would like. Sometimes people get impatient with God, "Fine, I've learned my lesson, let's get on with it. Enough already, God. I've learned it. I've learned my lesson." Sometimes it goes on much longer than we would like, and God has a purpose.
Here's an analogy of that. The Apostle Paul, he says that he had a thorn in the flesh, he described it a messenger of Satan to torment me. He said three times, I asked God, this went on for so long, I asked God three times to remove this thing from me, but God said no. Notice 2 Corinthians 12:9-10. "He said to me, no, my grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore," Paul answered, "I would rather boast about my weakness, that the power of Christ may dwell in me, for when I am weak, then I am strong."
He said God used it for a purpose. He said, "To keep me from exalting myself, because of the greatness of the revelations, because of the privilege of receiving so many amazing revelations, to keep me from exalting myself, God allowed this thorn in the flesh to remain." Now when we hear the word "thorn", we think a rosebush thorn or something like that. The original Greek, actually the word is like tent peg, an 18-inch peg used to hold up a tent in the wind in the desert. This is serious. Paul says this thorn in the flesh was a messenger of Satan to torment me this entire time, which I think is a surprise to many that God would use Satan for a purpose.
Which, by the way, reminds me of a funny story. This story takes place during the Great Depression. There were these two cabins that were some distance out of town, just on the other side of a gully. In one cabin was an old, grumpy, crotchety old man, an atheist. On the other part of the gully was an old woman, a devout Christian. Now, this was during the times of the Great Depression. Times were hard, money was scarce, difficult just to put food on the table. The woman would come out on her porch every morning, and she would call out to God out loud, "Oh, God of heaven, be my great provision, you know my need. God, I'm asking that you would provide and put food on my table today."
Oh, the old man on the other side of the gully would hear that, and he would call out, "No one's listening to you. That's not going to do you any good." She would just ignore him and just keep praying. Every morning she'd come out and call out to God out loud, "Oh, God of heaven, be my great provision." He would mock her. One day, the old man came in with some money, $15. He went into town and bought two bags of groceries for himself and one bag of grocery for the woman. That night, after the woman went to bed, he snuck over and put a bag of groceries on her porch. The next morning, the woman woke up, and she came out onto her porch.
Sure enough, there's a bag of groceries there. She cried out to God, "Oh, God of heaven, thank you. Thank you for providing for me these groceries today. Thank you for being my great provision." Oh, the old man was waiting for her. He cried out to her and said, "That wasn't God. That was me. I did that." She looked over at him, and she didn't miss a beat. She just kept right on praying. "Oh, God, thank you for being my great provision. Thank you for providing these groceries for me. Thank you for making the devil pay for them." I love that story.
Paul says, "No, God allowed this." There was a purpose. A messenger of Satan with a purpose to keep me from exalting myself. Oh, this is a very important thing. Preventing spiritual pride. Oh, pride has been the great undoing of so many people. A great obstacle to true spiritual maturity. I tell you, God will find a way to keep us humble, which reminds me of another funny story.
There was a young preacher who was invited to give a message on a special occasion, and God richly blessed it. It went well, and it had a great impact. Afterwards, driving the way home with his wife, apparently enjoying himself a little bit too much in his heart, he said, "I wonder how many great preachers there are in this city." His wife said rather dryly, "Probably one less than you think." God knows how to keep us humble. I still can't believe Jordi would say that to me. Just joking, just joking.
C. Trust the heart of the One refining you
I want us to see this. Very important to see this. Trust the heart of the one refining you. I know God's heart. If you're going through the fire, you're going through a refining. Trust his heart. He's going to bring about something good. A skilled silversmith does not walk away and leave the metal to chance. No, he sits, he watches, he attends to it.
It's like Matthew 3:3. He will sit as a smelter and a purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. He watches, he tends, he knows exactly how intense the fire needs to be, how long the silver must remain in the crucible, never applying more heat than necessary, never leaving the process until it's finished. Sometimes people go through something difficult, some pressure, some pain and they accuse God in it. "God, you say you love me. Well, if you love me, then why am I going through this?"
They don't understand. This is an important point. No, trust the heart of the one who is refining you. No, it's because God loves that He intends to your way in which you're living, to bring about a greater result, a greater awakening, and the transformation of something that needs to be transformed. Trust His heart. The one who is refining you knows that which is good and right. He is for you.
When I think of that, it reminds me of the process of wrestling with our kids when some of them would come to those difficult and sometimes painful teenage years when they're trying to find their own way and struggling and sometimes resisting authority and resisting my guiding hand. Oh, how many times do we have conversations about this? I tell you, I would start those conversations with the question. I want you to look at me and tell me, am I for you, or am I against you? I am your father. Now, you tell me. I want you to say it out loud. Am I for you or am I against you?
Every time they would say, "Dad, I know that you're for me." Half the battle is won right there. Just to understand the heart of it. You say you love me. Then why am I going through this trouble? No, it's because He loves you that He's intending to your way. For example, Hebrews 12:5-6, "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by Him. For in those whom the Lord loves, He disciplines." Trust the heart of the one refining you.
II. God is Refining and the Results are Glorious
Now, back to the analogy, the picture of the refiner's fire. Notice, God is refining, and the results are glorious. Now, first He makes the point of showing just how ugly their hearts had become. He wants them to see it. Now, you can see this in several places in Ezekiel. God wants them to see it in all of its ugliness so that they can see it the way God sees it. This is the process of the refining fire to open their eyes to see what they did not see before. If they could only see how detestable this thing is. If they can only see it the way God sees it, it would be the beginning of opening their heart.
God wants them to see it. It's like what Jesus said in Luke 16:15. "That which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God." That is a great verse right there. That describes the point powerfully. Oh, that which the world thinks is so highly esteemed. No, God says that is the testimony. I want you to see it the way I see it. He shows it to him.
Notice, for example, in verses 24-29, he breaks it down to show them just how ugly this thing is. You got to see it. Notice the prophets, they devour lies. That's not what prophets are supposed to be doing. The priests profane holy things. Make no distinction between the holy and the profane. Not the difference between unclean and clean. Even I am profaned among them by priests. This is not right.
Princes, the leaders, they seek dishonest gain. No, that's not right. The prophets whitewashing over the whole mess, dividing lies, wronging the needy and the poor, and treating travelers badly. "Can you see it," he says, "how ugly this thing is?" God wants them to see it and weep. You can just see how ugly it is. Then you can open your eyes. Then you can see why they needed the refiner's fire, and then you could see that that which God is doing is good.
A. How valuable is the silver of glory
The very thing you think is against you, the pressure, the pain, the confrontation, the trouble, is the very thing that God is using to refine and purify and glorify into something far greater. It's like, "If you could just see," he says, "how valuable is the silver of glory?" He's using an analogy. We understand that God is producing something glorious, something beautiful, something honorable. See the value of the silver, of the glory using His illustration? If you can see it, then you'd open your eyes to that, which He's doing is good.
I tell you, there are many biblical examples. Jesus used a very similar analogy or picture when He spoke of the vine and the branches that must abide on the vine to produce much fruit. Then He spoke of the pruning process, and no one likes the pruning process. It hurts. The result, he says, is greater harvest. The fruit is of greater measure. See this. Greater purpose. Now, I know this is true. In fact, I saw it myself because we have some fruit trees that are alongside our driveway up by the road, and they've been there forever and a day and been neglected, and no one tends to them. Last fall, I decided there's so much dead wood in there, and they're hanging down, and I can't mow around them.
I decided I'm going to go and I'm going to cut out all that dead stuff. I got my chainsaw. It was another excuse to use my chainsaw. [makes chainsaw sound] I love that chainsaw. It makes me feel so macho. I got my chainsaw, and I am just cutting all this dead stuff out. I am having way too much fun with it, and I thought, "Oh, that is way too much." This year, this spring, this summer, you will not believe it. That thing is loaded with amazing, delicious yellow plums. I have never seen so many plums in my life. In fact, we get a family gathering we got going. Guess what I am breaking? A whole box of plums. You're taking these things home with you, people, because there's so many of them.
The pruning brought a greater harvest, like Hebrews 12. He disciplines us for our good that we might share in His holiness. That's amazing. He's bringing about something glorious that we can share in His holiness, but you got to go through the fire to do it. There's James 1 I mentioned. "Consider it all joy when you encounter various trials."
Well, it's not joy to go through a trial, he says, "But knowing that the testing of your faith produces something glorious, endurance, a strong strength in the inner man." Here's another one. Romans 5:3-4. "And not only this, we also exult in our tribulations." "Well, no one likes tribulations," he says, "but no, you exult in it knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance, perseverance, proven character, and proven character, hope." Those are all glorious things.
Strength of the soul in the inner man. 1st Peter 1:6-7, "In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while you have been distressed by various trials." No one wants to be distressed by various trials. He says, in it, you greatly rejoice, knowing that the proof of your faith being more precious than gold, which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. That's glorious. That which He's doing is amazing.
2nd Timothy 2 is another one, verse 21. "Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, like the worldly impurities, he will be a vessel of honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, and prepared for every good work." That's glorious, wonderful, desirable. Then do that, Lord. See the value of what He's doing, the value in the soul. Then there is this. We'll finish with this in verse 30, where he is looking for those who will stand. Notice, "I searched for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the gap, interceding."
B. God is looking for those who will stand
Is there anyone? Anyone? Is there one with a heart after God enough to care, to stand in the gap, to pray, to intercede? He said, "I found no one." It is a picture. God is still searching today. The eyes of the Lord search to and fro throughout the whole earth in order to show Himself strong in behalf of those whose heart are completely His. God is searching. Is there anyone with a heart after God enough to intercede, to pray? He said He found no one. What's interesting is the scripture says God Himself then will provide an intercessor, one to stand in the gap. It's Jesus, the son of God. He becomes that intercessor.
Scripture says that our sins have created a great separation between us and God, but his son Jesus stands in the gap, interceding for us with groanings too deep for words. He is the advocate for sinners, understands interceding, reconciling sinners to himself. Then when Jesus reconciles sinners to himself, he does something. He transforms their heart. New heart and new spirit within them. That they would be given a ministry of reconciliation.
God is using people like you and me. Interceding, standing alongside of Jesus, praying, reconciling. Who are you interceding for? Like in your heart of hearts, name them by name. Who are you interceding for? Do you care enough about God? Care enough about them. Oh, there are so many people born in the condition of man, in all of its ugliness, that are so messed up. They need the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Does someone care enough? Invite them to church. Let them hear the gospel of Jesus Christ, at least. To intercede, to care. Name them by name. For he is still reconciling sinners. God is still on the move, and there are people in this very room. God is touching your heart, and he's drawing you. He's standing in the gap, and he's inviting you to be reconciled to the living God. He's made a way for sinners to be found. He's made a way for sinners to have a relationship to God as their heavenly Father. He's inviting you.
Let's pray. Lord, thank you so much. We trust your heart. We know how you move. God, if there's a refining that needs to be done, do it. Search me, try me, know my heart. See if there be anything in my life that needs to be refined. I want you to lead me in the way that is everlasting. Do a great work transforming my soul into that which is glorious and good.
Church, is that your prayer? Would you pray that to the Lord by just lifting your hand to him and just making that prayer known to him? God, I'm asking, you see anything in my life? Search me, know me, try me. Is there anything that needs to be transformed? Do it. Do it, God. I want to be transformed. I want to be made new. I trust your heart. Do that in me, Lord, we pray, we ask in Jesus powerful name, and everyone say amen and amen.