This word is submitted by Richard Lang (richard.lang@juno.com)

Escaping Gridlock

My people are in grid lock. They are like the blind leading the blind. Though they see signs and wonders, they have become a stiff necked people, who are bound up in the ways of tradition. Tradition has affected the lives of my chosen ones as much as it has affected the lives of my chosen ones, Israel.

Look not back! You cannot rest on your past achievements. You dare not do so. You will only become hard hearted. Your eyes are open but you cannot see.

Have I not said to you, "Look and see, I am doing a new thing." I fully intent to take from you a heart of stone and to give to you a heart of flesh that you might perceive all that I have set before you, a banquet feast of good things, filled with signs and wonders, a banquet feast which I the Lord have set before you that I have prepared from the very foundation of all that I have created.

Do you not know and have you not heard that I am the Great I Am. I am He who Creates all things new. Call upon me and see if I will not act for the sake of those who would wait on Me. I fully intent to call into existence those things which you do not even now perceive.

Come my children and let the heavy weights fall away from your eyes that you might see clearly that in these days I am pouring out a new wine. Yes, my children, new wine is flowing forth from my vats, the very first squeezing of the grapes, the choice fruit prepared before- hand.

Come for all things are now ready.

I did not call you to be spectators, to sit as couch potatoes, but I have called you to active duty to go forth and heal the sick, not just watch other heal the sick. I have called you to cast out demons and evil spirits and not just to watch others to do so ... and to raise the dead and the proclaim the Word with power and authority.

My mighty men and women have gone forth, not for you to sit and watch as you have done and you have continued to do from Sunday to Sunday, but I have called you into battle as a mighty army to draw your swords and to destroy the works of the devil even as you have seen me do, even as you have seem my mighty ones.

Do you not know that you are to heal the sick in the market place even as my servant and co-worker, Peter, did in the streets of Jerusalem.

Your work place is the place where I have planted you that you might share the glory of the only begotten Son, as you heal the sick even in your work place. Be careful how you act for some I tell you have denied my name in the work place and I have had mercy on them. Did I not say in my Word that you are heirs with me, not only to the good but also that you might suffer for your faith.

Trust me. Declare my name in the work place; do it now! For the days are short.