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Katie Barker: "A Strategic Time to Be Pruned, Refined and Realigned For New Assignments and Mantles!"


Katie Barker
Apr 1, 2017

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God is really dealing with our hearts in this hour...and that's a very good thing! There is so much He desires to give and pour into us...however that requires a pruning and refining at times.

Katie Barker shares this awesome word of the Lord for this season we are in:

I heard the Lord say, "I am pruning and refining at this time to prepare My people for the time ahead. I am readjusting, repositioning and realigning. Those that embrace this process will be prepared for My purposes ahead and will be used powerfully by Me. They will walk in abundant life."

Allow the Lord to prune and refine you as He sees fit...as it always, always leads to abundant life! (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

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I heard the Lord say, "I am transforming the hearts and minds of My people so they will be more effective for Me in the days ahead. I am burning off the dross in their lives. I have called My people to walk in freedom and life. Many are carrying what they do not need to carry. Many are weighed down by worries and obstacles as they have not released them to Me. Many are hindered by incorrect mindsets and roots of fear, bitterness and unbelief.

"I am breaking strongholds of the enemy and recompensing My people for what has been stolen. As My people align their hearts and will with Mine, surrender afresh and put their faith in Me I will bring healing and freedom. With this freedom will come a peace and hope they have not known before.

"The Lord wants to make us whole in every area of our lives. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and to restore His children to the fullness to which He created us."

"I am pruning and refining at this time to prepare My people for the time ahead. I am readjusting, repositioning and realigning. Those that embrace this process will be prepared for My purposes ahead and will be used powerfully by Me. They will walk in abundant life.

"I desire to bring a refreshing and a renewing to My people. I desire to fill them afresh with My Spirit. This is a strategic time as I am preparing My people to carry the new assignments and mantles I am releasing. They must be free from any hindrances that hold them back in this hour. With the pruning and preparation will come transformation which will equip My people for My purposes. I am giving My people increase in the anointing of My Spirit and I am expanding their area of influence in the days ahead. I am transforming My people and raising them up for this time."

Lay it All Down at the Feet of Jesus

I then had a vision of the people of God laying all at the feet of Jesus and inviting Him to remove anything that was not of Him or anything that was holding them back. They were asking for the Refiner's Fire to fall on them so they would be prepared for the purposes God had for them.

I saw the love of God wash over the people; waves and waves of love poured out on them. Jesus then looked at them with such kindness. I saw Him reach inside them and pull out roots that were the cause of things that were not of Him. Roots of brokenness, fear, shame, despair, bitterness and unbelief. He then pulled out what looked like vines that had entangled around the minds of people.

These vines represented incorrect mindsets that were stopping the person from seeing God as He truly is and seeing themselves as God sees them. Jesus breathed over them and they were filled with life, peace, hope, joy and freedom. They were transformed by the touch of Jesus. I then saw them being given new garments by Jesus which represented new spiritual positions and new levels of spiritual authority. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

Transformation of Hearts and Minds

The Lord is highlighting the following as ways He is bringing transformation to people's lives...

Our heart and mind are very important to God. The Bible tells us the high importance on keeping our hearts pure. Being pure in heart involves having a singleness of heart toward God. A pure heart has no hidden motives and has an uncompromising desire to please God in all things. The only way we can be truly pure in heart is to give our lives to Jesus and ask Him to do the cleansing work (see Matt. 5:8, Prov. 4:23, Ps. 51:10 NASB).

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully. (Psalm 24:3-4 NASB)

By renewing our minds as Christians, God will give us wisdom and discernment to know and do what is good, acceptable and perfect for our lives. The Bible tells us to set our minds on things above and to have heavenly perspective. When we do this we are not moved by our circumstances.

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Having a heavenly mindset is important in advancing God's Kingdom on earth. The person whose thoughts are consumed with God and His Kingdom will have perfect peace instead of anxiety and worry. When we place our trust in God He pours out His peace on us that will guard our hearts and minds. Believers can develop a heavenly mindset by understanding their resurrected position in Christ as we are seated in heavenly places with Him (see Ephesians 2:6). The Lord wants us to see our authority and position in Him. Romans 8:17 says we are co-heirs with Christ so everything He has is ours (see Rom. 12:2, Phil. 4:8-9 NASB).

Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on the earth. (Colossians 3:1-2 NASB)

Pruning and Refining

" We are anointed to transform our area of influence for the advancement of the Kingdom and to bring glory to God. God anoints us to fulfill the plans and calling He has for us."

Allow the Lord to renew and transform. Trust in Him and the work He is doing in you as He loves you and is preparing you. The Lord wants you to reflect His glory and light to the world! The Lord wants to remove our impurities (our dross) so that He may refine us. Silver is refined in the fire because it removes contaminates and impurities.

In the same way, God allows us to go through various tests and trials, thus perfecting our faith. It is the Lord's intent and desire to transform us into His image and likeness. He is a willing Potter ready to do the work necessary to shape us as He wills. Our role is to yield and submit to this process. This is the road to intimacy with God. The Bible also talks about pruning. God prunes away parts of us that are bearing no fruit so that we can be more fruitful (see 2 Cor. 3:18, Prov. 25:4, Ps. 66:10, Is. 64:8 NASB).

"I am the true Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit." (John 15:1-2 NASB)

Removal of Hindrances and Strongholds

The Lord wants to make us whole in every area of our lives. Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil and to restore His children to the fullness to which He created us. He came so we could have abundant life. The Word tells us that He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds (see Psalm 147:3), and the Lord is near to the broken hearted and saves the crushed in spirit (see Psalm 34:18).

We need to leave our worries in the hands of Jesus knowing He cares for us and wants to take those things from us. The Lord will heal hidden hurts as you hand them over to Him knowing He is the one who can bring healing and true liberty.

Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. (1 Peter 5:7 NLT)

"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28 NSASB)

It is God's plan for spiritual strongholds to be demolished. The Bible tells us our weapons are not physical, for our warfare is spiritual in nature. The Lord wants us to rise up and use our spiritual authority and the spiritual weapons we have been given. Jesus has given us the authority to use His name to expel and come against the forces of evil (see 2 Cor. 10:4). (Photo via Pixabay)

Increase in Anointing

Matthew 3:11 tells us Jesus baptizes us with the Holy Spirit and with fire. When we receive Jesus' baptism we receive the anointing of the Holy Spirit that sets us apart to minister with His gifts in power. The anointing does not point to us, but to God who empowers us. We are anointed to transform our area of influence for the advancement of the Kingdom and to bring glory to God. God anoints us to fulfill the plans and calling He has for us.

The anointing allows you to move into a supernatural walk with God. The Lord is filling people with His Spirit and increasing the anointing on the lives of people so they may powerfully impact their area of influence for Him.

This is a time of transformation for those who surrender to the Lord and submit to the pruning and refining that the Lord is doing at this time. There is a repositioning and realigning that is occurring as part of the preparation for what is coming. The Lord is removing hindrances and refreshing His people. He is filling them with the power of His Spirit and raising them up to carry out the plans He has for them. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List go here.)

Katie Barker
Bring the Fire Ministries

Email: contact@katiebarker.com.au
Website: www.katiebarker.com.au | www.bringthefireministries.com

Katie Barker is the co-founder of Bring the Fire Ministries along with her husband Aaron. They live on the Tweed Coast of Australia with their four children. Bring the Fire Ministries is about bringing revival fire to the nations. It is about ministering to others through the power of the Word of God and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Katie has a heart to encourage Believers into a deeper relationship with the Lord and see them walk in the fullness of their identity and inheritance in Christ. Her desire is to see Believers understand their Kingdom authority and position, use the spiritual gifts they have been given and impact their areas of influence for the Kingdom of God. She also has a heart for revival and to see the Body of Christ united and awakened.

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