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Date: Dec 6, 2006

This word is submitted by Judy Bauman [rivermistlighthouse1@comcast.net]

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          [A word for those struggling with addictions]

                       Freedom Rains


The golden rain that you see is the rain of My freedom to break addictions.
Freedom rains when I Am comes into the room.

This is not to say that I am not always with you, as I am.  However, this
rain doesn't fall in the same place continually.  When you feel your time
with Me has been dry, it is because the ground of your soul is parched.  I
come with My rain to give you a chance to get replenished. Do not allow the
rain to run-off and be wasted.  When I rain on you that is your moment of
deliverance, if you will but allow My Spirit to reign!

I want you to be so fully washed by My living water that you will have an
abundance to share with others.  So let the rain of My presence come and
refresh you.  I want to rain My glory down on you, but you must allow Me to
reign in your life.

If you think your plan to get yourself out of the bear-trap will work, then
I suppose you will have to wrestle with it further. The addiction that has
been sprung on you has been set by the enemy. He has seized your life and is
relentless.  That trap you are in is daunting and deadly to you.  It has a
hold on you and you are powerless against it.  That struggle seems so
pointless when I Am stands next to you ready to open it for you.

Look at what I said in Hebrews 12:1:
        Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of
        witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the
        sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance
        the race marked out for us.

Until you throw off your pride and allow Me- the God of the universe--to
open the trap, you will remain ensnared in it.  Can't you see that My
ability to spring you from the trappings of addictions are so much higher,
so much greater, so much more efficient and thorough than any and all
efforts you can make?

You even deny your own condition.  You lay there with the jaws clamped
tightly around you and yet you tell Me and others around you that there is
no trap--it doesn't exist.  Yet everyone can see that it has a hold of you.
Those trying to help bring you freedom are shamed to scorn.  The truth is,
child, you are in a trap of your own making and there is no way out in
your own strength.  But do not despair!

Allow Me to open the trap, heal your wounds and reconstruct the missing
parts.  Your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will
quickly appear.  I will rise with healing in My wings.  Then you will walk
in My freedom.  You will walk in My grace.  You will walk in My glory.

Arise, shine for the glory of the Lord rises upon you and My glory will
appear over you!

Heb 4:16
        Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so
        that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.