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Topic: Clarify (10/15/15)
A teaspoon of butter in the kitchen has a multitude of uses, we use it to bake, cook and spread on our food, it enhances the flavors of the other ingredients and creates happiness for our taste buds.
Just like a stick of salty, smooth butter, God has created us for countless purposes.
We all encompass gifts and special talents, however, we must allow Him full access so that He can unwrap our full potential.
The Creator has hand picked and chose us before the foundation of the world. Just as a chef chooses a precious stick of butter to clarify, mix, and prepare, we are God's delicacy and he has selected each one of us for our exclusive purpose and destiny.

After we have given our lives over to Jesus, we aren't meant to stay the same.
Sanctification and transformation begin a work inside of our souls (mind, will and emotions).
This process changes and renews us into Spirit-filled laid down lovers. The process allows us to have a deep and profound relationship with Him. Those that have a fire to seek His face with a passion that is supernatural.
However, what He can do with us depends on how much we decide to surrender, do we hand over a little of our control or completely be radical and let it all go?

Matthew 7:14 says 14"For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.

The narrow gate is the path of clarifying, the process of refinement and purification. The path of total surrender and complete faith. Requiring the act of totally letting go and handing the reigns back to the only one who can form us into who He originally created with His purpose in place.


The process of clarifying butter requires a high heat, the process for our hearts and souls are the same. God must break us down melting all of our old creation with his refining fire, in order to transform us into holy and pure creations with renewed minds.
This process requires faith, suffering, patience, endurance and above all else trust.

The eyes of our Creator never sleep, sweeping the surface of the earth, examining hearts and minds of all, He constantly pursues His children to come to Him.
The Spirit is calling out to those that will seek His heart, His good and pleasing will. The call is out to many, but very few answer.
As yeast causes to dough rise, a new generation is being called to rise up. One that encompasses a reckless abandon, a desperation to die to themselves, a generation that deeply embraces the imprinted desire to run after him relentlessly, seeking His face.

This requires throwing our fleshly cares to the wind, allowing the good and true Shepherd to lead us through the purifying process. Through this process, The Lord will transform His Beloved Bride into their purest form setting them apart.

The light of Christ is ready to shine out, we must rise as the new creation going forth into the world. Shining like bright lamps full of oil, marching forth in the power of the Holy Spirit covered in the blood of Jesus. Pressing forward in one accord armed and ready to conquer the darkness of the world and spread abandoned love to all.

The time is now, we must bind ourselves to Jesus and join together as one body, going forth to pull others out of the fires of death, leading the lost back into the arms of the Bridegroom.

We must become like that stick of sweet butter, reduced and clarified so that we can be who God has called us to be Spirit-filled soldiers in Christ, no longer tied to the flesh, having clean hands and a pure heart, fully surrendered to the King of Kings.
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Judy Sauer 
10/23/15
You obviously worked very hard on this entry. For me, though, the wordiness made it challenging to follow at times. I encourage you to check out Jan's Writing Basics on the Forum on Tight Writing. It helps to get points across succinctly.

Several times you have places where run on sentences appear. Clearing these up into separate sentences might make it easier to read.

For example, you wrote:
A teaspoon of butter in the kitchen has a multitude of uses, we use it to bake, cook and spread on our food, it enhances the flavors of the other ingredients and creates happiness for our taste buds.

How it can read easier:
A teaspoon of butter in the kitchen has a multitude of uses. We use it to bake, cook, and spread on our food. It enhances the flavors of the other ingredients, and creates happiness for our taste buds.

Lessons in Jan's Writing Basics are on comma usage also exist. I encourage you to check them out as well.

Best of wishes as you continue working on your writing craft.
Donna Powers
10/23/15
You shared your views clearly and reminded us of some basic truths. Keep sharing your testimony
Larry Whittington
10/26/15
You have many good points throughout the piece. Good Bible thoughts.

You have some long sentences that could be made into two complete sentences.

You are right about the narrow pathway that we are to lead. The gate, through, refers to how we enter the path. In (Acts 2:36) Peter said that "God had made Him (Jesus) both Lord and Christ". In (Acts 2:41) it says that "those who had received his word were baptized and there were added that day about three thousand souls". These were the ones who went through the gate and started walking on the narrow way (Acts 2:42-47).

Continue to write using the Bible you know and trust.