This word is submitted by Shirley Craft (sjcraft@sbcglobal.net)

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                    Remove The Stumbling Blocks

"Build up, build up, prepare the road!  Remove the obstacles out of the way
of My people."  Isaiah 57:14  "Pass through, pass through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people.  Build up, build up the highway!  Remove
the stones." Isaiah 62:10

The Lord is saying, many of My people are standing at the crossroads of 
life.  Destinies are waiting to be fulfilled.  However, many of My people 
feel hedged up on all sides.  There are many obstacles and stones that are
obstructing their way.  Thus keeping them from the plan and purpose that
I have destined for them.

In many, these obstacles and stones have become mountains in their paths.

Some are hedged up because of their present circumstances which is out of
their control.  Some have experienced events in their lives that have them
in a place of frustration and nowhere to turn.  Many are in a place of
unfulfilled vision and unfulfilled dreams.  Some have been stuck in this
position for a long time, and in some cases it has been years.

No longer My people!  I know each of you personally, I know your heart and I
know the position you are in right now.  I see those things that have you
bound in that place.  You are struggling to set yourselves free and remove
these stumbling blocks out of the way.

Know this, anyone who undertakes to hedge-up the way of MY people, binding
them about by human restrictions, so that they cannot follow the leadings
of My Spirit, and hindering the advance of My kingdom, I Am sending forth
My word even now to remove the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people.

It is time to arise and take that first step into your destinies.  It is
time to look forward to your future in Me.  Don't look around you and say,
Lord I can't see beyond this mountain.   I say, speak to your mountain
according to My word.  My word is sharper then a double edge sword.

Psalm 108:13 says, "With God we will gain the victory, and He will trample
down our enemies."