Refined Gem

Allowing God to lead us is an acknowledgement that apart from Him we have no good thing. You can then be assured that what He leads you to has His approval as accompanied by His peace. As He leads you and I in paths of righteousness for His names sake it then means we ought to be okay and comfortable with not knowing or with the waiting or being silent in God. It's trusting God to lead ;to answer...

Did you know God can allow us to walk in unfamiliar paths or allow unsettling circumstances just for Him to get our attention? The absence of peace may at times mean God is not in it and if He is, then He is trying to get us to listen. Psalms 23 shows us how the Lord as a shepherd leads His sheep in green pastures and beside quiet waters. We can not separate God's leading from His peace. (Psalms 2...

Welcome back to Refined Gem! God has promised to lead us and will often invite us to put our hand in His and follow His lead. We may get distracted or wonder which path to take but He has promised to make His voice clear to us when we turn to the right or the left. Trust God even on the unfamiliar paths .He is making every crooked place straight and darkness light. Isaiah 30:21,42:6 & 16.

God changes the times and seasons for us. He also says there is a season for everything. It may however not be easy for you and I to know when a season has changed or is changing. The sons of Issachar not only understood the times but also what Israel was to do. We can also pray for such discernment so that we are not doing the right thing at the wrong time or we are found at the wrong places at t...

Hello! As always, thanks for passing by. We take a very short break and hope to be back next week. Stay blessed!

Realising that the life of a believer is often like a wrestling match can be quite sobering. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers, principalities & rulers in darkness. God leads us to a place of rest but from the life of David, that doesn't necessarily mean the absence of spiritual battles or strife but that God takes over and fights for us. Strengthen your inner man through p...

Happy Easter Sunday! On a day like today thousands of years ago, Jesus rose up again from the dead. That gave us victory over the enemy. In our reflection today we consider Simon Peter's response to Jesus when Jesus asked the 12 disciples if they would also leave. Many found the teaching of Jesus hard to understand .How was he from heaven when they had watched him growing up? We will consider poss...

We continue with our study and reflect on what it means for us to dig trenches in expectation for the floods. Three kings were asked to dig trenches and in the morning they had been filled with water supernaturally. They then got water for their soldiers and their animals. We have a part to play in God meeting with us as we seek Him through scriptures. The same way that there were four types of gr...

Water is symbolically used to represent the word of God and the Holyspirit. We reflect on Ezekiel's vision as a man led him to the temple from where water flowed. He led him into the water and would measure the depth - he was led from ankle depth , knee and waist length until when he could not cross and where one must swim. Holy Spirit will lead us deep into the things of God and His word if we re...

The enemy pries on us whenever we are in need or perhaps a desire that is not fully surrendered to God. He was the first to meet Jesus after Jesus had been fasting for 40 days and nights. Jesus was obviously hungry and so satan asked him to turn stones into bread. Since the enemy seeks a legal right to access our lives we must guard our hedge and be able to tell when what is presented to us at cer...

What doors have you left open unknowingly and have a mess made by what you let in? Or which ones do you need to shut? Our ears,eyes and mind are gates. Words spoken by people that care about us or even acquaintances or workmates from a place of good intention but not aligned with what God says about us can make a mess once they access our gates. We reflect on the power of spoken words as well as p...

Jesus had no form of majesty nor beauty to be desired. The centurion looked beyond as he understood the Authority of Jesus- being a man in and under authority himself. " Just say the word" and his servant was instantly healed. Sometimes that's all we need, for God to speak only one word into our lives and everything changes. Yet even when we don't get immediate answers we are encouraged not to thr...

We take a short break but back on 13th March 2022, God willing. Stay plugged in the word and remain blessed.

We can have spiritual sight in addition to our physical sight. Jeremiah saw an almond tree and God explained to him what He saw with his spiritual eyes. The blind man at Bethsaida saw men like trees after Jesus spat on him and touched his eyes. Seeing right means being able to also pray right. We can see right by relying on the Holy Spirit for no eye has seen what God has prepared for those that l...

The imperishable quality and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit is very precious in God's sight. Yet we often do not have control of people and circumstances for us to maintain such calmness in our inner man. The disciples panicked when there was a storm while at sea yet Jesus was asleep in the boat. They didn't know who they were nor who was in the boat with them. Sometimes we just ne...

We can expect to hear the voice of God through His Spirit as we pray,fast or worship. He also gives an inner witness not just to us but to others as well. He spoke to Cornelius in a vision as He prayed .At the same time He also spoke to Peter in a trance while he also prayed and prepared Peter's heart to receive the three messengers that Cornelius had been instructed to send to Peter. God work...

We reflect on Daniel's secret of his strength. The enemy sought to oppose Daniel but he remained devoted to his lifestyle of prayer while serving in the 4 pagan kingdoms.( Daniel 6).In the eyes of others he was very successful but his devotion to God in secret was his anchor. Even Joshua was given a promise of good success all his life yet this was attached to the condition of him observing the la...

Do you know the secret of your strength? Success in life by God's standards may not be as defined by the world as He alone puts in us what we need to do well in life. Samson's secret of his strength was in his uncut hair. The moment the Philistines learnt of it, they ensured it was cut. His secret was out and he lost to his enemies. (Judges 13-16, 2 Corinthians 2:11)

We at Refined Gem want to appreciate everyone of you that has journeyed with us the past eight months as we have studied and gleaned from scripture together. We most importantly thank God for His grace, gifting and the honour to share on this platform. We look forward to having you join us again next year. Have a blessed Christmas and a wonderful start to the new year!

The Lord Jesus before being crucified prayed to His father saying He had Glorified God on earth and had finished the work He had been given to do. His last words were " It is finished". How come then we do not always experience the fullness of all that Christ did for us & our loved ones? Healing, salvation,deliverance...As we search scriptures, we discover alot that He did and we only need to clai...

My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. You may have learnt to hear God's voice but do you trust his voice? Have you developed a relationship with God to differentiate His voice from the voice of a stranger and even your own thoughts ? Do you trust him enough to respond in faith and step out ? Peter was bold enough to ask Jesus to command him to walk on water but the moment he m...

Jesus being also God humbled Himself in obedience and laid down His life for us. God then exalted Him and has given Him a name that is above every other name. Every knee shall bow at the mention of that name. We can also appropriate the name of Jesus and exercise our authority in God and receive healing, deliverance,victory and a lot more. (Philippian 2:9-11, Acts 4:12,Mark 16:16)

GOD created all things on earth and in heaven including dominions or principalities or powers. They were all created through Him and for Him. We are to therefore co exist together with even what opposes God's kingdom which we become apart of when we accept Jesus. We therefore must understand the authority given to us to walk in victory on a day to day basis. (Key references: Colossians 1:13-17,Eph...

Are you often inclined to speak to God about the significant matters in your life? God cares about even the little details concerning us. Jesus said that whoever did not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will not enter it. He desires for us to have childlike faith. To trust him in even the small matters and while at it ,our level of intimacy with Him grows. It becomes easy to believe ev...

Be careful what you do when you can't see. Sarai couldn't see the promised child so she gave Abram her servant girl to bear him a son. Elisha's servant couldn't see the horses and chariots of fire on their side so he panicked. As Elisha prayed " open our eyes Lord so that we may see " (Gen15:4 &16:2,2 Kngs 6:8-22)