This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)
Original Date: Sep 9, 2002

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                         I Have Validated You

Precious one, why are you looking to man for your validation? Do you
not know that I have chosen you from before the world began? Do you not
know that I have placed My own Spirit within you to guide you and to 
transform you and to conform you to My image? Do you not know that,
even before time began, I called your name and I selected you for a plan
and for My purpose?

Do not say, "I am not able." For I say unto you, truely you can do all
things through Me, I am your strength and your substance, and I make all
things possible to My elect. I have placed My Spirit within you, and I 
have placed My anoniting upon you. How then can you say, "I am nothing?"
You are created in My image and My Spirit dwells in you... therefore you 
are the work of My hands and the work of My heart and of great value to 
Me.

Beloved, do not be defined by what others say about you. Be defined, 
rather, by what I have said about you and by what I have said to you. 
Do you think that My promises to you are null and void because they
take longer to be fulfilled than you expected? Do you think that I am 
not able to fulfill My word to you? If you believe that I am able, and 
that I have selected and called you, and that I have prepared a destiny 
for you--then why do you doubt that you are of value to Me? Why do you 
doubt that My power and authority and anointing will flow through you; 
that you will, with Me, do the things that I am doing to advance My 
kingdom? Why do you doubt that I have a plan and a purpose that was 
specially created for you, that is given to none other but you?

You are special and you are called and you are anointed. You are My 
own; I have allowed you to be called by My own name, to be identified
with Me, to carry on My purposes and to do My work. The angels have 
desired that which I have given to you, but they were not allowed to 
obtain it. For the angels were not created in My image, they do not 
carry My Spirit within them, and I did not lay down My own life to 
redeem them. You were obtained at a very great cost, and you are of 
great value to Me. 

Your enemy, the devil, desires to cast you down. He wants to make you 
feel small, to get you to disqualify yourself from doing with Me what 
I am doing in this earth. Your enemy says you of no account. But your 
enemy is a liar and the father of liars. So who will you believe? Will 
you believe what the enemy is saying to you and about you? Or will you 
believe Me? 

Little one, I have validated you, and you need no other to validate 
you. I have called and selected you. I am actively working in you and 
transforming you to be even more like Me. I have called you by name, I 
have declared your value and I have put My anointing and My gifting 
upon you. Do you think I would pour Myself into vessels of no value, 
into vessels of no worth? I say unto you, each of My own is of great 
value simply because they are houses and containers of My Spirit. By 
My presense within you, I fill you with value, and I fill you with 
anointing. So even if I did not care for you personally, you would still
be of great value simply because My Spirit dwells within you.

But I do care greatly for you; I love you and I value you and I hear 
your prayers and I see your tears and I feel your pain and I enjoy your 
joy and I know every situation that you face. I have put My hand of 
protection over you and I have prevented many of the schemes that the 
enemy has devised aginst you. I have allowed some through that you may 
learn to war, that you may mature and that you may be established in 
faith. I watch over you, and I am with you to substain you in all that 
I allow you to experience. I have given you My peace...and if you will 
embrace it, you will not be shaken no matter what circumstances come 
your way. Would I do all of this for one that I do not love, for one 
that I do not value? Dear one, you are of extreme value to Me, and I 
care for you greatly. 

It does not matter if man does not recognize or acknowledge your value
becaue you are of great value to Me, and I will work My glory in you 
and through you. Be defined by what I say of you. I have validated you 
and you do not need any other's validation. You are of great value.