This word is submitted by Doug Mead (meaddr@netzero.net)

For a Time Such As This
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It is for a time such as this that I have called you. You shall be a partaker in My divine nature. It is in this season that I shall set you in place, a living stone in My temple to demonstrate who I Am. You shall be a testimony unto My grace.

For is it not written that in times past I spoke through the prophets but in these last days I have spoken through My Son, Jesus? Is not He the outraying, the radiance of My glory, and the exact representation of who I AM? And has He not said that as He was sent so also you shall be sent? Why are you so dismayed? Since He is the head and you are the body, will not all things be summed up in Him when the church stands triumphant? Are you not His feet? Will not His enemies be placed under the church? Therefore be established in a full orbed demonstration of the Lord Jesus, for it is through you that I shall speak to the nations in this season. You shall be recreated in Christ Jesus and shall be My message to the principalities and powers that reek havoc in the earth. But you would not believe.

I have called My church to embrace My heart so that My character might be imparted by My Spirit. He, Himself , invests in you so that the fruit of My character may be displayed in you. He gives you the power that is demonstrated through the gifts so that even the principalities may tremble. And when My Son ascended He gave gifts to the church, some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and some teachers so that His authority and government might increase until His coming. But you would not believe.

For Christ will be in session as a many membered body, headed by My Son Jesus. He will rule in the midst of His enemies not for you, but in and through you. Yet you will not believe. Is not heresy anything that falls short of or beyond the razor edge called Truth? For is not My goal to build you up until you all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ? Will you not in all things grow up into Him who is the Head even Christ?

Know ye this that I will settle for nothing less than a church without spot or wrinkle. I will have you do exploits in My name so come hither to Me, My bride that I might work into you the grace that will enable you to stand in this the day of My visitation.

In His service

D R Mead