WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.940 God, today I come before you with a different 00:00:02.940 --> 00:00:06.240 prayer. I have asked you to deliver me. I have 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.900 asked you to change my circumstances. I have 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:11.500 asked you to remove the opposition, open the 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:14.320 doors, silence the battle, and bring me out of 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.339 the fire. But today my prayer is deeper. God, 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.079 before you bring me out of the fire, accomplish 00:00:21.079 --> 00:00:23.739 in me everything you intended through it. Do 00:00:23.739 --> 00:00:26.539 not allow me to survive this season and remain 00:00:26.539 --> 00:00:29.570 unchanged. If there is something in me that cannot 00:00:29.570 --> 00:00:32.829 accompany me into my purpose, reveal it. If there 00:00:32.829 --> 00:00:35.909 is pride in me, humble me. If there is anger 00:00:35.909 --> 00:00:39.329 in me, heal me. If there is bitterness hiding 00:00:39.329 --> 00:00:42.990 beneath my pain, remove it. If there is an appetite 00:00:42.990 --> 00:00:46.009 attempting to govern me, teach me self -control. 00:00:46.590 --> 00:00:49.570 If there is a habit weakening my spiritual life, 00:00:50.310 --> 00:00:52.789 give me the strength to break it. If there is 00:00:52.789 --> 00:00:55.429 a relationship influencing me away from your 00:00:55.429 --> 00:00:59.240 purpose, Give me discernment. If there is a seed 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.700 I have been watering that will eventually produce 00:01:01.700 --> 00:01:04.760 destruction, expose it before it becomes a harvest. 00:01:05.019 --> 00:01:08.120 God, refine me. Refine my thoughts. Refine my 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.680 desires. Refine my relationships. Refine my reactions. 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:15.340 Refine my decisions. Refine my words. Refine 00:01:15.340 --> 00:01:19.099 what I do publicly and refine who I am when nobody 00:01:19.099 --> 00:01:21.780 is watching. Teach me discipline. Teach me to 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:24.200 tell myself no when saying yes would threaten 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.950 what you have entrusted to me. Teach me to walk 00:01:26.950 --> 00:01:29.329 away from temporary pleasure when it threatens 00:01:29.329 --> 00:01:32.989 permanent purpose. Teach me to control my emotions 00:01:32.989 --> 00:01:36.230 before my emotions control my decisions. Teach 00:01:36.230 --> 00:01:38.890 me when to speak and teach me when to remain 00:01:38.890 --> 00:01:42.390 silent. Teach me to recognize that not everything 00:01:42.390 --> 00:01:46.030 I can do is something I should do. Holy Spirit, 00:01:46.430 --> 00:01:49.829 help me. I cannot produce this life by my own 00:01:49.829 --> 00:01:52.810 strength. Produce your fruit within me. Give 00:01:52.810 --> 00:01:56.180 me love. Give me patience. Give me gentleness. 00:01:56.579 --> 00:01:59.560 Give me faithfulness. And give me self -control. 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:02.920 Strengthen me where I am weak. Convict me where 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:05.920 I am compromising. Correct me where I am drifting. 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:09.000 Wake me where I have become comfortable. And 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.699 give me the courage to obey you when obedience 00:02:11.699 --> 00:02:15.680 requires separation, sacrifice, restraint, or 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:18.939 change. God, protect the vision you have placed 00:02:18.939 --> 00:02:22.560 within me. But even more, refine the person carrying 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:25.789 the vision. Do not allow my gift to take me somewhere 00:02:25.789 --> 00:02:28.849 my character cannot sustain me. Do not allow 00:02:28.849 --> 00:02:32.370 greater influence to magnify weaknesses I refuse 00:02:32.370 --> 00:02:36.430 to confront. Do not allow an uncontrolled appetite 00:02:36.430 --> 00:02:40.430 to destroy years of obedience. Do not allow one 00:02:40.430 --> 00:02:43.669 undisciplined moment to damage my family, my 00:02:43.669 --> 00:02:46.810 calling, my testimony, or the people connected 00:02:46.810 --> 00:02:50.349 to my purpose. Prepare me before you promote 00:02:50.349 --> 00:02:54.620 me. Strengthen me before you enlarge me. Develop 00:02:54.620 --> 00:02:57.699 my character before you increase my influence. 00:02:58.419 --> 00:03:00.919 And if this fire is part of that preparation, 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:04.979 then I surrender to your refining work. I will 00:03:04.979 --> 00:03:08.240 not waste the fire. I will not waste the valley. 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:11.939 I will not waste the waiting. I will not waste 00:03:11.939 --> 00:03:15.020 the correction. I will not waste what you are 00:03:15.020 --> 00:03:18.599 revealing about me. What needs to leave, let 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:23.199 it leave. What needs to die, let it die. What 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:26.860 needs to grow, let it grow. What needs to heal, 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.680 heal it. What needs to change, change it. And 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:33.939 what needs to remain, strengthen it. Because 00:03:33.939 --> 00:03:37.099 I understand now, maybe your intervention was 00:03:37.099 --> 00:03:39.280 not only about what was happening around me. 00:03:40.060 --> 00:03:43.120 Maybe your intervention was also about me. Maybe 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:45.120 you were protecting me from becoming someone 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.479 who could destroy what you were preparing to 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:50.840 entrust to me. Maybe the closed door was protection. 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:54.659 Maybe the delay was preparation. Maybe the exposure 00:03:54.659 --> 00:03:57.939 was mercy. Maybe the correction was love. Maybe 00:03:57.939 --> 00:04:01.240 the fire was refinement. So today, I declare, 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:04.599 I will come out different. I will come out wiser. 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.319 I will come out more disciplined. I will come 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:09.539 out more discerning. I will come out with stronger 00:04:09.539 --> 00:04:11.740 boundaries. I will come out with greater self 00:04:11.740 --> 00:04:14.060 -control. I will come out more dependent upon 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:16.399 the Holy Spirit. I will come out with cleaner 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.439 motives. deeper obedience, and stronger character. 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:22.399 I will not simply testify, God brought me out 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:25.220 of the fire. I will testify, look at what God 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:27.600 brought out of me through the fire. The fire 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:30.160 will not cancel my purpose. The valley will not 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.920 destroy the vision. The process will not be wasted. 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:36.839 God is working. God is shaping me. God is correcting 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.959 me. God is protecting me. God is preparing me. 00:04:40.139 --> 00:04:43.360 I am being refined, not for destruction, not 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.730 for rejection, not without purpose. I am being 00:04:46.730 --> 00:04:50.230 refined for a purpose. And when the time comes 00:04:50.230 --> 00:04:52.410 for me to carry what you have prepared for me, 00:04:52.870 --> 00:04:55.129 may my character be ready for what my prayers 00:04:55.129 --> 00:04:58.269 have been asking you to release. In the name 00:04:58.269 --> 00:05:00.290 of Jesus Christ, amen.