This word is submitted by Robert Lilllington (Rlillingtons@aol.com)

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                         Fire and Rain

"This is love, not that you first loved God, but that He first loved us."

There are first and lasts in the kingdom. Many things that are first now 
will be last when I come. Learn to know the difference. What does not 
stand up to the fire will not stand for eternity. Let My love grow in 
your heart, not as a soft option but as love that conquers. The love I 
give strengthens, consumes, purifies, and molds you into the image of 
the Son. 

If you are in a time of dryness stop a while and look again. You will 
see the fires burn in dryness and the fire burns strong. Allow My fire 
to purify you then be assured as surely as the sun rises,  the rain will 
come. The dryness declares the rain but the rain consumes the dryness.

In the rains to come your hearts will receive a flood. Your hearts that 
are now torn will pour out mercies and blessings. Your torn hearts will 
be open vessels which I will fill with My abundant love and grace. 

Allow the dryness do its work. Allow your hearts to burn. Let your 
thirsty souls rise to the flood I am bringing. Live in My love. I will 
bring you from dryness and there will be abundant rain and there you will 
flow in My glory and power.