This word is submitted by Carolyn Spears (cpryr@hotmail.com)

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                       Time Restraints

My children, stand and listen for I would tell you a thing that you have 
yet to consider. Quiet yourselves and listen, for I desire that you still 
your thoughts and still your hearts. It is not My desire that you run 
to and fro in anxious thoughts for I have told you that I have come to 
give you life and life more abundantly. I have told you that My peace 
have I given you, yet you do not walk in this peace. 

Do you not understand that you cannot judge things according to your 
sight?  Nor can you judge according to your understanding. My children, 
you say things like, "Why is God taking so long?" and "It will be too 
late if something doesn't happen soon!" But I would tell you that it is 
not so, for you have said in these statements that I am limited. Yet I 
say, nothing is impossible to Me, and through Me all things are possible. 

Look and understand at what your words are saying My children, for in them 
you say that I am restrained and dictated by time, and again I say not so! 
Do you not really know and understand that time is not something that 
dictates to Me but is something that I dictate? I am the Eternal God, the 
One Who was and is and is to come, and time itself cannot hold all of Who 
I Am. You know time as a restraint.  Even in this I say you err, for each 
of you have been born into the generation that I have set for you to be 
born, and this is but one step in an eternal life that you have in Me. 
This life is not a restraint, but an opportunity to fulfill all that I 
have purposed and destined. 

My children look at your lives and see where you have been.  See where you 
have come to and know that I am not restrained in where you can and will 
go if you will allow it. These restraints are not the boundaries that I 
choose for you, they are of your own choosing and words. Look to Me, look 
to Who I Am and know that I stand outside of any and all restraints that 
circumstances and others may be trying to bind you to. 

My children, I have said that I know the thoughts and plans that I have 
for you, thoughts of good and not of evil, to give you a future and a 
hope.  Look at these restraints; do they testify of this? Or do they speak 
contrary to this? If so, then they are not of Me and you must not accept 
or embrace them. I am your creator and I alone know who you were made to 
be and all the potential and glorious destiny that I have for you. Still 
your thoughts, still your hearts, look not at the circumstances nor at 
time as a restraint to what I am doing. 

Look to Me, My children. Look to the fact that even time must bow to My 
purpose and is only a vessel in My hand to do all that I purpose. My 
children, check your hearts and come to Me and ask for direction. Ask 
for wisdom and understanding, for I desire for you to be free from this 
limitation and restraint. Oh My children, I desire so much more for you; 
you are created and you are destined for so much more.  Lift up your 
eyes to Me, the One who is your help, and see with new eyes and new 
understanding.  Do you see Me as the One who was and is and is to come?  
Do you see Me as the Eternal God, the One who stands outside of time? 
For in this view you will see and you will know that nothing is impossible 
with Me!