#209 Refined To Shine

Refinement can feel like a spotlight you never asked for. I’m talking candidly about what it’s like when God is shifting you in real time, people can see it, and you still choose to stay willing and obedient. Using Psalm 66:10, I break down how God “tries us as silver is tried” and why the refining process should leave evidence: a better version of you, a cleaner heart posture, and a life that looks more aligned with what He’s saying now.

I also share an important update about where you’ll be able to keep up with my messages going forward. Because of rising hosting costs, I’m shifting my regular uploads so you can reliably find everything on my YouTube channel, God’s Diamond With Catherine. I also invite you to connect with my ministry page, Exposed Life Change Ministries, for Learning To Live In Truth Bible study during the week and a space to grow no matter your denomination, as long as you believe in Jesus Christ.

Finally, I introduce my new weekly Zoom community, Finding Your Diamonds, built to help you defeat the lie with the truth. We go one transformational concept at a time to replace negative beliefs and limited beliefs with God’s truth so you can walk lighter, think clearer, and help someone else do the same. Subscribe on YouTube, share this with a friend who needs hope, and leave a review so more people can remember they’re still a diamond.

A journey through spiritual refinement, identity, healing, and growth, learning how pressure produces purpose and reveals the diamond within.

An invitation to come and be a part of what God is building here at God's Diamond Network.  We don't have to go at it alone; this is where we will grow together.

Thank you for listening, and we hope you will return every week.

Transcript

Welcome And Diamond Identity

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Hello, hello, and welcome back. Guys, diamonds in the roof. I hope all is well. I hope you're having a great day. I know you don't hear the music. It's okay. It's okay. Hallelujah. I promise you I won't be before you very long. But again, I hope all is well. I hope you're having a great day. You don't know who I am, it's your first time tuning in. My name is Katherine Brown, and I am just a child of God who loves the Lord. Amen. And wants to be willing and obedient unto him. Hallelujah. I am here to help you to see that God has you on his mind and that he's working things out for your good. He wants us to see him, see ourselves the way that he sees us. We are his diamonds. Hallelujah. We are his diamonds. Look at the end of the day, life is hard, things are difficult, but it does not mean we don't get to shine. Hallelujah. As his diamond, you can shine. Hallelujah. And so before we go any further, let's pray. Father, thank you so much for another day. Thank you, God, for allowing your people and I to come together to get a word from you. I pray in the name of Jesus that all is well. I pray that you would just have your way here. We turn this time over to you. We give you glory, honor, and all the praise. We pray it. We ask it in Jesus Christ's name. We do pray. Amen. Amen and amen. Hallelujah. So we have been in refinement. We've been doing a lot of talk, talking about refinement over the last couple of months. We are headed to, well, not quite,

Opening Prayer And Surrender

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but we are wrapping up here soon, talking about hiddenness and development in secret. Hallelujah. And hope you were able to tune in to last week's episode where I shared an episode from Learning to Live It True, uh, something that I do on Facebook Live each and every day, Monday through Friday from 6:30 to 7.30

Refinement And Hidden Development

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Eastern Standard Time. And I wanted to announce to you today that the fact that all of my content is free to anybody that has a desire to hear. Um, I want to invite you to my Facebook page with my ministry. My ministry's name is Expose Like Change Ministries. And there we are, or we this is what we do all the time. We are exposing the enemy. That genuine change can happen for the glory of God. People's lives are genuine, genuinely being changed. That is the whole purpose and foundation of our ministry. And I have Bible study there every day, Monday through Friday. All are welcome. Hallelujah. No matter the denomination, the thing that you need to know is that we believe that Jesus came to the earth. We believe that Jesus is the Son of God. We believe that Jesus gave his life so that we can live. We believe that Jesus died and resurrected to bring forth life. That's what we believe. So if you believe that, please come on. Hallelujah. Because at the end of the day, the more we learn, the more like him we become. Amen. Hallelujah. So I have that going on. And then if you haven't already, tune into my YouTube channel, which is God's Diamond Network. God's Diamond Network. And I just recently changed it. So it's God's Diamond with Catherine. Okay. God's Diamond with Catherine. That is the name of my channel. You can go there, subscribe to the channel, and you'll find way more than learning to live in a tree. You'll find motivation, you'll find encouraging encouragement, you'll find a ton of shorts. Like, come and join the family. Hallelujah. So what is happening now? I feel like I am like this walking billboard of refinement. Do you hear what I'm saying? Like, I don't know if you you you have found yourself like feeling as though like you're in the spotlight of refinement. I don't know if you do, but I do. I feel like I am in the spotlight. And you know, like everybody's watching me. Hallelujah. But there's some things that are happening and they have been happening in secret. Hallelujah. And this month, we were talking about Psalm 66 and 10. And for the sake of our conversation, I'll go ahead and read that as I'm trying to trying to filter in what is coming so that you'll know what to do next. Because what I don't want anybody to think is that I am abandoning the process. I am not at all. Um I'm not abandoned, I'm not abandoning you. I am bringing more to you. Hallelujah. And I just believe that, especially when it comes down to money, people will value it, value it a lot more. So you're ready to share with you what is next and what is happening next in regard to refinement and what is happening and why it's happening, all of those things. But let me read this verse real quick. Psalm 66, verse 10 says, For thou, oh God, has proved us, thou hast tried us as silver. I mean, as silver is tried. Let me read that again. It says, For thou, oh God, hast proved us. Thou hast tried us as silver is tried. And what does that mean? Like at the end of the day, God in his own way has shown us who we are. Hallelujah. God has shown us Himself. Amen. And you know, I think the best evidence of that is, you know,

Psalm 66 And Tried Like Silver

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what are we doing? You know, we know we're in the refining process, and so if we are truly in refinement, then y'all are charging. If we're truly in refinement, then something different should be happening. Hallelujah. There ought to be some remnant left behind. Hallelujah. There ought to be a better version of you that people see. Hallelujah. If you're truly being refined. And, you know, sometimes people see you in the middle of refinement. And so you don't look so good in the midst of it. Hallelujah. But they know something's happening. You know something is happening. And obviously, when you look at Catherine, when you hear her on God's Diamond and Rough, you see the different things. Why is she doing that? Wonder why she's doing that? It's because she's been refined. Hallelujah. God is showing her. God is showing me this ain't what I told you to do. This is what I want you to do. No, I don't want you to do that. You've been doing this, but that's not what I want you to do. So I'm in the middle of the shifting, and everybody's watching. Everybody that is here in regard to this podcast, in regard to my YouTube channel, in regard to learning to live church. Everybody can see the shifting. Hallelujah. My process is on display. Hallelujah. But I'm willing. And I am being as obedient as possible to the will of the Lord. And the Bible teaches me that when we are willing and obedient, we will eat the good of the land. Hallelujah. So if y'all ride with me, you remember just ride with me. Keep on riding with me. Hallelujah. You will be glad that you did. Amen. So um there's gonna be some evidence in your life that you've been refined. It's gonna be some evidence that something different is happening, that God is shifting things around for you. Hallelujah. That you will be able to fulfill the purpose you've been called to this earth to do. Hallelujah. So, what is gonna happen next here? Okay, so I am because my hosting platform is more than I can financially afford at this point of my life. I have all of this, I have this whole, I have platforms where I can do all of the same things that I'm doing now and host them there without having to come out with additional cost. So we're going to be after after the last Friday of this month. It's not gonna be,

A Public Shift In The Process

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I'm not gonna post anything else here. Okay? You have to go to the it'll be it'll be postings on my YouTube channel. See, this goes to my YouTube channel anyway on Fridays. So I'm going to post to my YouTube channel on Fridays, it just they won't be going to Spotify, it won't be going to Apple Music, it won't be going to whatever platform you listen to it on outside of YouTube, it won't automatically go there. Okay. I would actually have to put it there. I don't know that I can do that. I cannot promise that. But it will definitely, I have to promise you, they will be on the YouTube channel. Again, I'll remind you God's diamond with Catherine. Okay, that is the channel, and I hope you will subscribe and follow me there. Now, that new thing that I'm doing is called finding your diamonds. And the whole point and mission is to help you defeat the lie with the truth. So it's gonna be a Zoom, it's gonna be hosted every Monday

Moving Content To YouTube

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from eight to nine o'clock Eastern Standard Time. Okay, this is a paid event. Okay, you're gonna pay once a month. And if you decide that you would like to be a part of it, then you're going to let me know. Okay, you're gonna let me know. I'll tell you what. I forgot that part. How are you gonna let me know? Let's see. I will make sure that my email, my email is in the description for you to email me and say, say, all you need to say is I want to join finding your diamonds. And I'm gonna send you a link so that you can pay the fee. Then when you pay the fee, I'll get a notification, then I will send you the Zoom link. That's simple, and that's gonna be reoccurring. You're gonna pay that every month, the amount. Okay? That's what's gonna happen, all right? And again, every month, I mean, every Monday from 8 to 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time, you're gonna see me and the group, whomever is a part of the, and we're gonna, I'm going to give you one transformational dig at a time. We're gonna take one concept, one concept, paradigm, whatever you want to call it, and we're gonna dive in deep to defeat the lie that we tell ourselves all the time with the truth of God. Okay? We're gonna replace negative beliefs, limited beliefs with the power of God. Hallelujah. So that we can walk weight free, so that we can walk and know that we have diamonds. We've collected diamonds and we can give diamonds. See, when we get diamonds, when we understand what truth, what the truth really is, then we can share that with somebody else. We can help somebody else defeat the lie with the truth. You understand what I'm saying? So we cannot help anybody until we help ourselves first. Like, you don't have to go through the whole program to help somebody first. Like you can go through the program, tell somebody else about it, then they can come in and they can go through the program with you. And, you know, the person that you know, like you and them, y'all can work on building, build, taking this, taking this thing, taking this whole concept, finding your diamonds, and help somebody else find their diamonds. You know, you and your team, you can build a team and do the same thing that we'll be doing there. Yeah. So that is where God is taking me. So after this month, in August, everything will be everything will be on the YouTube channel. Okay. And finding your diamonds will be a weekly Zoom call that you pay reoccurring every single month, one time each month for four weeks of content. We're gonna meet every Monday for that hour of time. Let's see. And you're going to, and look, in order for you to get, I'm gonna give a certificate at the end of the program, okay? And you gotta be present at least three times out of the month, every month, at least three times of the month, every month. That's because I know I understand things happen. You never know. You know, things happen, but you need to be present at least three times out of the month so that you can get the fullness of everything that the Lord is going to share with us, and I'm going to record each week, and so you'll be able to access it as long as you're a part of it. Yeah. And that one week that you miss, you'll be able to access that one week that you miss. Okay? So that is the only red tape that I say, unless the Lord tells me anything else between now and then. I'm trying to think, is there anything else I need to tell you besides how much it costs? Let me tell you about the Bible study before I get to the cost of finding your diamond or diamonds. Bible study. It's called Learning to Live in Truth. You've, if you if you listened the last couple of weeks, you heard it, you heard how I do it. So you can come to that page, Exposed Life Change Ministries. You can join the page with me. You come into the room, say hello to me. I will definitely shout you out. If you're from, if you're not from the United States, wherever you're from, you can tell me where you're from as well, too. Because I don't, I know it's five. It's a few people that want to listen faithfully. Every single episode. I don't even know who you are. I would love to

How To Connect For Bible Study

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know who you are. I know right now, within this particular platform, there's a place where it says fan mail. And so I would love to know who you are. Absolutely. But I'm going to include my link, my email in the body of the description so that you can reach out to me to let me know if you want to be a part of finding your diamonds. This has been quite a journey. That's what I'll say. This has been a journey, came back in February. So March, April, May, March, April, May, June, July. Five, five months. So what is that? Five is a number of grace. God was accomplishing something with me being here. Coming back before the season of refinement. We, as I said, we're going to continue that. It's just going to be on the YouTube page. And so the cost. I know everybody's trying to figure out why I'm going to call it to cost. $87. That's how much it is. $87 per month. Somebody might be thinking, man, that's a whole lot of money. But look. It is. You want to be think you want the result. You don't want a temporary change. You want something that is going to transform your life. Transform the way that you think. Transform your perspective. Transform how you look at situations from that point out. So, and this is

Finding Your Diamonds Program Breakdown

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this is this is the reason why we're going to go one concept at a time. One, not a whole bunch. Because we want to make sure that it transforms us little by little. Because what you want to do is be able to build little by little. You want your foundation to be solid. And if you go, we go up there throwing a whole lot of a whole lot of stuff up there at one time, then you know we sub to miss something. So we're going to take it a little bit at a time. Yeah. Somebody might be asking, well, how long is the program? It's going to be. Well, I know how long I'm trying to decide if I should tell you. Trying to say if I should tell you, but it is going to be, I'm going through the alphabet, A to Z with three concepts. Three concepts for each letter of the alphabet in regard to finding your diamonds. Again, we are defeating lies with the truth. A whole lot of times we cannot defeat the lie because we don't know the truth. We don't know how to interpret the truth. And based on everything that the Lord has done through me in my life in this realm, in this space, I believe that God has already qualified me to be able to stand in this vein. Hallelujah. I don't come here arrogant, puffed up, none of those things. Actually, really am terrified. To be honest with you, I'm really terrified. But somebody say, But God. I know that if God started it, He will finish it. And I know I'm assigned to some women, to some men in this space. And I hope that you are one of them. So I told you I wasn't going to hold you long. I wanted to make sure that I explained what was happening. And, you know, I really just want to make sure that you understand that just because I'm not doing it in the same way that I was doing, it doesn't mean that the work is stopping. Hallelujah. It's just being it's it's being shifted. Okay. It's being shifted in a way where more people can be touched by the hand of God. Hallelujah. So with all that being said, I hope you're ready to pray. Yeah, let's pray. So, Father, thank you again for your grace and your mercy. I thank you so much that you have called me here to be able to share just a little bit of my heart and share what you have led me to do. And I just pray that you have some people who have been waiting for this. I pray, God, that as we go forth, that, you know, as you pour into me and I pour out, that they can do the same. Be poured into and be pouring out. That we can all help somebody else to find their diamonds. I pray, God, that the things that you do in us doesn't stop with us, that we continue to carry it on from one person, one heart, one

Closing Prayer And Final Blessing

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at a time, from one to the next, to the next, to the next. And I just pray, God, that we your you will get the glory at the end of the day. When it's all over and said with and done with, that you are getting the glory, that you are operating through us, that we are not doing it in ourselves. Father, we just pray your blessings be upon your people. And again, we give you glory, honor, and all the praise. We love you and we thank you. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We do pray. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. So I will most likely see you back here in the same fashion this coming week. Then after that, you will be able to find all of my stuff again on YouTube, all kinds of different stuff. So I hope y'all will come on over there and help support the channel and more than anything, see Jesus through me and the things that you listen to, the things that you hear. Hallelujah. Because I always pour my heart. Hallelujah. Amen. So again, I thank you so much for being here and trusting me with the things that are precious to you in this vein. And know that I am praying for you, and I want to ask you to pray for me as well. All right. I always say this and I will say it to you. So many blessings and so much love from me to you. I'll see you on the next time. And as Michael always says, and I say it to, please remember you are a diamond. Hallelujah. You are a diamond in the rough. Amen. But you are a diamond. Hallelujah. So again, blessings and love from me to you. Y'all have a great day.