This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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           A Word Of Encouragement In The Midst Of Trials

Child of Mine, come press into Me.   Take your eyes off of the cares
and concerns of the world and find rest in Me.  If you look to your
circumstances, you will be overwhelmed by them.  If You look to Me,
your Source and your Provision, you will find the peace that I desire
to impart into you.  If you took to Me as your Protector and your
Defender, you will most surely see My deliverance.  For I am with
you and I will watch over you and I will be mighty on your behalf.

But I must warn you child, that My deliverance does not look like 
you expect.  My time frame is not your time frame.  For you only 
see a small part of the overall picture, but I see all and I work 
and orcherstrate in many things at once.  I see the overall plan and
I work in it for your good.  You are not able to see as I see, and
you feel the intensity of the moment and the fire of the given trial.
So I require you to trust that I am in control and that I know what
I am doing and that I desire to work for your good.  

Look to My leaders of old, the heros of your faith. If you search the 
Scripture, you will find that I always came through and I always worked 
My glory in their situations.  And I always made a way for them to 
fulfill the destiny and calling that I had chosen for them.  But each 
victory came with a trying of their faith.  Circumstances were not easy 
and delivearnces were not quick. And at times I chose different solutions 
than what they expected.  But in each case, I worked My glory into their 
situations, I gave them the victory and I caused them to be overcomers.  
And in each situation, I worked in their life to cause growth and 
maturity -- to make them stronger in Me.  

I will do the same in your life, child of Mine. I will be with you and 
I will protect you and I will bring My deliverance and My victory into 
your situation.  But I will also work in all things to cause you to grow 
and mature in Me.  Yes, I will give you the victory and I will come 
through for you.  But I will also require you to fight to possess the 
land that I have given you.  

There will be times when trials press around about you.  Do not fret.  
I have not abandoned you.  I will bring you through them and into the 
place of victory.  I will cause you to be an overcomer and I will fight 
on your behalf.  I have given you the victory, I have prepared a place 
for you.  But like the children of Israel entering into their promised 
land, you must go possess what I have given you.  You must rise up in 
My anointing and in My power and you must slay your giants and you must 
take your victory.  There will be battles.  But fear not.  I am with 
you and I will cause the outcome to work both to My glory and for you 
good.

Child, you are precious to Me.  I will not abandon you.  I will be with 
you in each fire.  I stand beside you in each battle.  I am ever present 
in each trial.  It is My heart and My desire to give you My supernatural 
peace in the midst of your adversities.  This will substain you until the 
time is come.  Then in the fullness of My timing, I will give you the 
victory and I will turn circumstances for your good.

Child I am with you and I will cause My name to be glorified through
you, and I will bring My victory into your circumstances.  Look to Me,
trust in Me and know that I love you and I care greatly for you.  Know
that I am with you and I will not abandon you.  Press into Me and allow
Me to encourage and substain you until your time of breakthrough has 
arrived.  It shall surely come, child of Mine.  Keep your heart and
your eyes on Me.  Trust in Me and you will know My victory.