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Date: Nov 19, 2002

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

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                You Are Not As Mature As You Think
                          (and that is ok)

Children of Mine, many of you are not fully mature yet.   Many of you
are like a four year old child who says, "When I was a little girl" or
"when I was a little boy."  Because you are older in Me and more mature
than you have ever been before, some of you think that you have obtained
the full statute of maturity.  But in most cases, that is not so.  There
is yet much in store for you, including many growth opportunities.
Children of Mine, I have so many good things in store for each of you.
I want to refresh your vision and remind you of the call and destiny on
your life.

But I do not want you to think you have arrived at it yet.  Many of you
are on course, many of you are on schedule, but My church has not fully
arrived at maturity. If it had, the sick would be healed on a regular
basis and those oppressed by the enemy would be set free.  It would be
normal to see demonstrations of My power and of My anointing through
all of My "everyday believers".  When My church is mature, then My kingdom
will advance forcefully and many will be set free from the bondages of
the enemy.  And many would come to know My Son and pledge their allegiance
to Him and  be committed to His Lordship in every area of their lives.

I have called My church to be vessels of My glory, ones that I can 
manifest Myself through.  I want to show Myself to the world today, just 
as I manifested Myself through Moses and the Children of Israel.  Surely 
I glorified My name through them in many ways.  I demonstrated My 
superiority over the false gods of Egypt through them.  Moses was unaware 
of My plans and intentions to do so.  He only knew that I had appointed 
him to bring My people out of Egypt.  He did not understand My greater 
plans and purposes that determined HOW I was do to this.   He only knew 
the battle as he fought, he saw the enemy resist him and he did not 
understand that I was doing so much more than I told him about.

Child it is the same with you.  You see the battles in your life.  You
see the housecleaning.  You see me convicting you as I examine the motives
of your heart.  And you do not understand My strategies to glorify My 
name through your life and through the ministry that I have placed into 
your hands.  I have not given you over to the wiles of your enemy, the
devil.  When things go wrong in your life, why are you sometimes willing
to believe that I would throw away all that I have spent these many 
years setting up?  Child, you have not been disqualified and you have 
not been abandoned.  You have not been delivered to the hand of the 
tormentors, and the enemy has not been given permission to destroy you.  
You are very much under My hand.  It is still My desire to glorify 
My name through you.

And just as it got worse for Moses and the Children of Israel before they
saw My breakthrough, so it is with you.  Child do not think that these 
things spell your disqualification.  Rather they spell My plans being 
accomplished through you.  I have not told you of all of My plans and
purposes because I want you to trust Me... to trust that I know what
I am doing and that I will accomplish My plans even when the circumstances
around you look difficult and unsettling.

I told you that you are not mature yet. My Church has not reached the
level of maturity that I need it to be at in order to accomplish My
kingdom plans through it.  There is still murmuring and backbiting,
there is still striving and competition.  And you have not all learned to 
walk fully in My love toward one another.  Each of you is still growing 
up in the Spirit, still being transformed into My image and into My 
thinking patterns.

But many of you are on schedule and I am pleased.  Child, if your heart is 
after Me, and if you are submitting to My refining process and cooperating
with Me in your spiritual growth and development, then I am pleased with
you.  You are doing well.  It is true that you do not measure up to the 
full scale of what I desire you to be, but you are growing into it.  Do not 
forget that I am faithful and I am able.  I will cause you to come into 
full maturity and I will alert you should you begin to wander terribly off 
course.  I am for you and I want you to succeed.