This word is submitted by Laura Strack [lestrack@yahoo.com]

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                           Center Yourself

Center yourself in Me. When you find the pressures of this life and the 
busyness and cares and concerns surrounding you, center yourself in Me. 
I will not hide Myself from you if you will take the time to close 
yourself off from all that is around you and seek My face. Haven't I 
said in My word that if you draw near to Me, I will draw near to you? 
Why then, do you think that I would not make Myself available to you in 
your hour of need?

I have been teaching you to come up higher, to seek Me in the secret 
place, to learn to heed My call and to hear My voice. The time is coming 
and is now at hand that I will require you to draw upon what I am 
teaching you and release it to a world that is in need. I am training 
up an army of people who will draw close, listen to My voice and then 
follow the instructions that I give to them. Be aware that as you set 
yourself to do this, it will require sacrifice. It will require 
diligence. It will require a greater level of faith. And it will require 
a greater discipline within your personal life.

Do not be deceived. There will be times when the distractions will be 
tremendous and the pressures very great. There will be times when you 
will not want to shut yourself away with Me because it seems as if it 
is too hard, but those are the times when it is so important to center 
yourself and refocus on the priorities of your life. Those are the times 
when I will test you and challenge you to see what is in your own heart 
and to see if you will choose to follow Me. Those are the times when, 
if you will seek My face, you will find the greatest reward. For those 
will be the times of refreshing from being in My presence. Those will 
be the times that I will pour out My peace upon You. Those will be the 
times that I will train and equip you and teach you what it means to 
walk in a higher level of the anointing I have placed upon your life. 
Those are the times that I will pour Myself into the barren places and 
make springs to rise up and rivers to flow into the desert places of 
your heart, so that the world can see what I am doing in you.  

I have so much for you, waiting to be released to you as you draw near 
and center yourself in Me in the midst of the distractions and busyness 
of your life. Won't you come? Won't you draw near? Won't you take the 
time and invest into the future I have for you? My heart is crying out 
for you. Can you hear it? Come. The world is waiting.