This word is submitted by Israel Froess [israelfroess@gmail.com]

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                        Up For Promotion

My child, lift up your eyes towards the hills and look around you. 
Raise your head from above the surface of the deep, for My redemptive 
purposes are nearer than what you believe.

Do not be ashamed, for in your feeble state you have made attempts to 
cover up and hide your nakedness. I have listened in with sorrow as 
you spoke condemnation over yourself, and devalued the image in which 
you were created. I wept as you believed the lies of the enemy and his
self-proclamation of victory over your life, as you huddled in the 
corner of your prison and buried yourself in the pit of despair.

My child I am here to remedy and remold your mindset, so that you may 
stand and fight the good fight of faith. Beloved it was not sin or the 
schemes of the enemy which has brought you the place of which you are 
now at. But it was I My child, for I am the one whom stripped you bare 
and removed from your shoulders the coat of many colors.

Do not fret in this, for I have to prune and trim you back so that you 
may be able to produce more and greater fruit. Child you are the branch 
and I am the Vine, therefore as you remain in Me and I in you; the buds 
that are forming will begin to blossom. You are about to turn over a 
new leaf, as one season comes to close and a new one begins.

Child the stakes are high and the price for your calling is costly, but 
the reward is eternal and everlasting. Therefore lift your chin up and 
raise your holy hands, so that you may wage war with weapons that are 
not of this world. For your hands have been trained for war and your 
fingers for battle.

Therefore, My friend, do not fear; for those who come to Me I do not 
cast out. So in saying all this, this is not the end but a beginning. 
Nor are you being demoted, but are coming in line, so as to be to be 
promoted.