Beating and Shining

And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand with its base and its shaft shall be made of beaten work; its cups, its calyxes, and its blossom buds shall be of one piece with it. Exodus 25:31, RecVer

Today, I prophesied on what I have been enjoying in the last week on the truth and experience concerning the "beating of gold" to form the lampstand and the "shining of the lampstand" to give light to the people in darkness. 

As Christians, we have received God's divine life, the gold, already. However, this gold must be shared into a lampstand. For the shaping, the beating of the gold is a must. Without beating the gold, it simply remains a lump of gold without any specific meaningful and adorable shape. Only the beating can form the lampstand. Likewise, we all need to be "beaten" until we are shaped, conforming to the image of the lampstand for the testimony of Jesus.

The beating work is being carried out by the Holy Spirit day by day through all the happenings in the environment sovereignly arranged by God. One need not pray for sufferings but at the proper time as God deems best, He will give the sufferings along with His grace to experience the Lord through the sufferings. In this way, the golden lampstand comes into being. In fact, the more the beating, the more the shaping will happen. Along with the beating too, there will be the shining as the Holy Spirit will fill those whom He disciplined.

I do believe that through these many years of the "beating of gold," the Lord has gained His bright shining golden lampstand gradually, even here in our locality, the church in Gurugram. This is in line with the Scriptures. 

Hebrews 12:6-11, RecVer

6. For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.”

7. It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons. For what son is there whom the father does not discipline?

8. But if you are without discipline, of which all sons have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

9. Furthermore we have had the fathers of our flesh as discipliners and we respected them; shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

10. For they disciplined for a few days as it seemed good to them; but He, for what is profitable that we might partake of His holiness.

11. Now no discipline at the present time seems to be a matter of joy, but of grief; but afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised by it.