This word is submitted by Karen Velez (DelightInTheLord@aol.com)

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                         Are You Ready?


You ask me to come as I did in the book of Acts, but are you ready?
Do you really know what you are asking?  Are you ready for me to turn 
your world upside down for the Kingdom of God?  Are you ready to go to 
the highways and byways seeking that which is lost?  Are you ready to 
leave your safe little worlds and go out into all the world?  Are you 
ready to be dangerous to the enemy?

Yes, I long to give you what you ask for, but first you must be ready.
I teach and train, I mold and shape -- I prepare you for the great 
calling to which you all are called.  Before you ask this of me, ask 
yourselves if you are ready to receive it.  

For I tell you when the wind of the Spirit blows it can come as a 
gentle breeze or a mighty whirlwind.  Examine your hearts, for I tell 
you truly the glory of the Lord is about to cover this earth as the 
waters cover the sea.  And yes, each one of you who is willing will be 
sent out to minister the gospel with signs and wonders following.  What 
I will do through you will be so great that not even the Apostles dreamed
of seeing this in such a magnitude.  

And then the Lord will come, and yes He will surely come. And yes, He 
He will come in power and majesty.  So I ask you, are you ready for My 
glory to come?  Examine yourselves, examine your hearts, examine your 
motives carefully -- for I will share my glory with no man.  And if you 
say yes, be prepared for the process.  I will put you through purification.
Yes, you will go through the fire of my furnace to purify you, but in the 
end you will be fit and as pure gold.  

So examine your hearts.  Seek my face, not merely my hand.  For I long 
to reveal my heart to each of you and indeed all of my creation.  Can I 
trust you with my heart?  Does your heart beat as mine does?  Do you weep 
as I do over all those who are lost and turning their back on my cross?
I long to reach them, I long to love them and I am asking you to love 
them enough to break forth and reach the world.

Are you ready?
Are you willing?
Will you go?

Each of you must ask that of yourselves.  Some you will go to your 
neighborhoods, others to nations.  Neither one is more important than the 
other; both are equally vital.  My creation needs to hear that I love 
them and that I died for them and rose again that they may live.  So go, 
feed the hungry, heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons.

Take my commandment seriously.  It was the last one I gave before I went 
to be with My Father.  And I meant what I said and I gave you authority 
to do this, and the anointing to do it.  So I say to you that I dearly 
love you or I would not ask you "are you ready?" because I am about to 
give you what you have longed for.  You will see My glory with your eyes.
For this indeed is the generation that will see my return with great glory.
So go and seek what is lost.  They do not know how short their time is.
Behold I return quickly.;be about my father's business.  Have your vessels 
full of oil, the bridegroom cometh.