This word is submitted by Wendy Marchant (hesthe1@quicklinks.on.ca)

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WAIT

As I have been waiting on God and moving out in Him it has been frustrating and my impatience and doubt sometimes gets the best of me. Last Monday as I was waiting on Him I sensed Him say this.

There is a 'spirit of wait' over my people right now. As my people wait on Me the purpose of this waiting is to shake and break off anything that is not of Me. I am conforming my people into my image. I saw a picture of horses inside the holding gate ready for the race to begin. Some were standing still, others prancing back and forth but all waiting. Many of us are the same. The gate is not there in front of us because we all know that God's perfect time is so crucial for His work to be done in perfection. Some are content and waiting while others of us are prancing back and forth in anticipation of what God has called us to do.

If we use this time to press into Him, to submit ourselves to Him and to wait obeying His every command when the time is right I saw us going forth in power, authority, conformed to the image of God so it was not us that people saw but the image of His Son conformed in us and through us that drew them.

God Bless You,
Wendy Marchant