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Date: Apr 13, 2009

This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis [ts@godspeak.net]

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                         Take The Victory 

I have given you the victory, but you must rise up and take it. I have
placed within your hands all that you need to overcome, but dear one, 
it won't do you any good unless you use what I have given to you. 

Even in the times of old, I asked My people to participate with Me.
Remember My servant Abraham, and all that I did in him and through him.
Yes, I was with him, but I did not do everything for him, nor did I 
ask him to just passively receive it all from My hand. Instead, I 
invited him to participate with Me what I was doing in his life. 

Remember when Abraham's nephew Lot was carried away captive by enemy 
soldiers? I could have divinely protected Lot from being taken captive,
or I could have sent angels to rescue him; but I did not do it that 
way. I choose to give Abraham an opportunity to participate with Me 
in winning a victory in his own life. I allowed him to send his 318 
fighting men to fight and regain what the enemy had stolen from him. 
I was with him in that battle, and caused them to prevail and to set
many captives free. Yes, I ordained a great victory for Abraham, but 
I invited him to participate actively with Me in obtaining it. And 
dear one, I want to give you the same opportunity.

Remember when I brought the children of Israel out of bondage. I took 
them into a promised land--but it was populated with enemies and 
obstacles, and they had to fight to possess what I had already given
to them. When they went into battle, I went with them, and I fought 
with them and I caused them to win great victory in each battle that
I asked them to face. If they had not obeyed My voice and fought the
battles that I led them into, they would not have taken possession of
what was already theirs. Even though I had given it to them, I still
required them to rise up and possess it. Likewise, I have given you 
many promises, dear one, that you must rise up to possess.

Yes, I have already given you the victory. The enemy that you face is
not flesh and blood, but spirits and powers and principalities. In the'
times of old, they had power over you for great harm; but I have given
you My authority. I have called you to overcome them, that they not be
allowed to interfere with My plans and purposes for your life. Yes, 
dear one, I have given you power over snakes and scorpions and over all
the power of the devil. But you need to raise up in obedience to My
leading to exercise that authority and to defeat the enemy of your soul.

In the times of old, I fought for My people, but I had not yet trusted
them to possess My own power and authority. But now that I have risen 
from the dead and taken back the keys from the devil; I have placed 
them in your hands. I have given you My Holy Spirit, and He resides 
within you. He will lead, guide, transform and empower you that you 
might do with Me what I am doing. But you still need to rise up and 
obey. You need to do with Me what I am doing, so that you might gain 
the full measure of victory that I have ordained for you.

Rise up, dear one, in faith and obedience. Take the victory that I have
already given to you.