This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis [ts@godspeak.net]

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                       The Invitation

Precious one, your are Mine. You are precious to Me, and I love you 
with a great passion. You already know this, because I have told you 
so over and over again in My word. Likewise, I have demonstrated My 
great love to you when I came to lay down My life to redeem you and 
to draw you back to Myself.

But I want you to know My passion for you experientially, instead of 
just knowing about it. I want you to experience more of My presence, and 
more of My goodness, and more of My glory in your life. I want you to
be completely and totally secure in My great love for you, so that you
are not afraid to run back to Me when you inadvertently dirty yourself 
with the things of this world. I want you to learn to recognize My 
voice, that I might speak personally with you, for I have so much that
I would like to share with you--if only you would receive it from Me.

I want to give you a deep seeded assuredness that I am available to 
you; that you are Mine, and that nothing can ever separate you from 
My love. I want to you experience My faithfulness over and over again 
until there is a certainty that rises up from deep within you; that no 
matter what circumstances you are in, you know with assuredness that I 
will come through for you. I want you to experience My breaking into 
your day to meet with you. I want to fellowship with you like I used 
to fellowship with Adam and Eve, by walking together with them in the 
garden in the cool of the day. That was a special time for them, where
we would meet together every day and spend together. I want us to have 
that same type of ongoing and regular special time of fellowship 
together as well.

I have so much passion to pour out on you, and I have so many good 
things that I want to do for You. I truly desire that your joy be 
full, and I am the fulfillment of that joy. But, dear one, you need 
to return My passion in order for Me to do these things for you. 
Intimacy requires that both parties seek out the other and pursue 
their relationship. 

I am pursuing you, and I have been doing so for a long time now. Will 
you pursue Me back, so that we might go to the next level in our 
relationship? I am inviting you in. 

I want you to love Me with all of your heart and with all of your soul
and with all of your mind and with all of your strength. I want you 
to demonstrate your love for Me by committing in your heart to obey 
Me and do all that I ask of you. I want you to pursue Me by making a
time to spend with Me daily--and then actually doing so. Yes, dear 
one, I want you to show Me that I am important to you by giving Me a 
priority on your time. I don't want the left-over minutes you have 
when you are not busy with something else. I want you to show Me that 
you desire fellowship with Me as much as I desire it with you.

So come deeper. Press into Me. Get to know Me, for I long to reveal 
more of Myself to you.