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

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               Don't Be Too Easily Satisfied


Are you feeling left out or passed by?  Do you see Me touching others but
you don't feel that touch yourself?  Are you crying out to Me and wondering
why I would touch this one or that one and ignore your cries?

Child, I am not being cruel. I am not punishing you and I am not excluding
you.  The simple truth is that you have become a tad too satisfied and I
need to increase your hunger.

You may see Me release an impartation to someone who you feel is less
deserving, to someone who does not walk as close to Me as you do, or to
someone who is not as committed to My ways as you are.  But child, don't
you understand? I give good gifts to all of My children. While it is true
that sometimes I give them as rewards, many times I give time simply as
gifts that do not have to be earned.  They do not have to be desired or
prayerfully requested for some length of time before I give them.  I am a
loving Father and a good God who delights to give good gifts to My children.
Sometimes I give these gifts for no apparent reason at all, just because I
want to shower My goodness on this one or I want to bless that one.  My
good gifts to not have to be earned, I give them freely.

I love to see My dear ones hunger for more of Me -- for more of My presence,
to hear My voice more clearly, to move in greater levels of My power and
anointing.  It delights Me to see My children hunger for more.  Child of
Mine, at times you become too satisfied in what I have already given you.
Yes I want you to use and enjoy the good gifts that I have given to you.
But I don't want you to loose your appetite for Me.  I want you to press
in deeper and higher and stronger. I want you to desire an even greater
revelation of Me.  I want you to desire that even greater levels of My
anointing be released on your life.

Child, I want you hungry, and at times I go out of My way to stir your
appetite.  Why? So that I can satisfy it, so that I can give you more.

That is why there are times when others seem to receive, even those ones
who don't fully appreciate what I have given them and who won't use it for
My purposes as well as you would.  That is why there are times when you
are passed by for that thing which you have long desired of Me, but you
have not desire it passionately or fully. So I increase your desire, I wet
your appetite. I allow you to see this very thing you desire go to another. 
My hope is that you will begin to press into Me and ask Me to give it to 
you as well.

Yes, child, I want you hungry, for I want to fill that hunger with greater
measures of My glory.  Child, the closer you are to Me, the more I will work
in your life to stir your appetite, to entice you to come up even higher.
I want you to press in even deeper into My presence. I want you to desire
even greater levels of My anointing that you might do even more of My works
with Me.

Child, I am not passing you by and I am not rejecting you.  I am not
punishing you and I am disqualifying you.  Child I am stirring your hunger,
that you will ask Me for MORE.  For the one who asks receives.  I want you
to receive greater measures of Me and greater measures of My anointing upon
your life.  Press into Me child, ask Me. Don't sunk and don't become angry
or disheartened.  Yes, I may at times give others that very thing you desire
of Me and withhold it from you for a short season. 

The reason I do that is so that you will hunger and increase your capacity 
to receive of Me -- that I might give you even more!  So do not fret when I 
stir your hunger, child of Mine.  Know that I will surely fill it with a 
greater measure of My tangible presence in your life.