This word is submitted by Ginny Bell (gbellsong@yahoo.com)

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                   Leaving the Place of Shame

My beloved one, your greatest fear is of being rejected and unloved. You are 
afraid that if anyone really knew you, they would stop loving you. You are 
afraid of not measuring up, of failing to do well enough. But I have news 
for you. I have fully accepted you. I fully love you. I know everything 
about you. I have known you from the end of time and am ecstatically happy 
with you.  I delight over you. I dance over you. I joy over you with 
singing. I know you and I love you and accept you. I formed you. In all 
your weakness, I AM your God. I go to the very heart of who you are and I 
say I AM pleased with you. 

Let me love you in your place of weakness. Do not run from my love. You 
will never be able to make yourself good enough to enter into my presence 
and receive My love. My Son paid that price for you -- it was much too 
expensive for you -- no man is wealthy enough to redeem his own soul. No 
man is a sinless sacrifice like My Son was. The debt is paid. You are 
accepted. You are whole. You are worthy. 

Release all your brokenness to Me. Let Me take away your shame; yes, you 
are dark, but you are lovely to Me. You are broken and wounded and sore 
and sick; you are tired and weak, tattered and incomplete. But I AM your 
Salvation; I AM the God who heals you. I AM the God who is with you in 
the pain. I AM the God who says all things are new and your brokenness, 
which is able to work humility in you, was always there. 

Mankind has always been desolate without Me, but most have not come to see 
that I have brought the Cure. For man's heart is desperately wicked -- who 
can know it? I bring some hidden things to light, a little at a time, so 
that My precious children can see I AM there to restore, to give beauty for 
ashes, ACCEPTANCE for rejection. 

And I AM bringing My Son's Bride to this place of healing, of KNOWING, 
that I AM her Completion. I AM raising up a pure, spotless Bride for My 
Son -- a Bride who has left the place of shame and has entered into the 
place of purity and the ecstatic joy of knowing that she is forgiven, 
healed, cleansed, complete and beautiful in My sight. She has washed her 
robes in the Blood of My Son. She stands pure and holy because the 
Bridegroom has made her righteous.

So rejoice! The revelation of Restoration and Completion and Purity is 
coming, and My Son and I are exploding with joy to see this happen in the 
heart of the Bride.


Psalm 69:19-20

19 Thou dost know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor; all my 
   adversaries are before Thee.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, 
   but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.  (NAS)


Isaiah 61:1-4

1  The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me 
   to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the 
   brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and freedom to prisoners;

2  To proclaim the favorable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of 
   our God; to comfort all who mourn,

3  To grant those who mourn {in} Zion, giving them a garland instead of 
   ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise 
   instead of a spirit of fainting. So they will be called oaks of 
   righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

4 Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins, they will raise up the former 
   devastations, and they will repair the ruined cities, the desolations 
   of many  (NAS)


Ginny Bell   \o/  \o/  \o/  \o/  \o/  \o/  \o/