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Date: Apr 15, 2002

This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                   Ask And You Shall Receive

Child of mine, ask of Me.   Trust that I have your good at heart.  Know
that I am with you, and not against you.  Know that it is My desire to
give good gifts to My children, for I am a loving Father.  When you ask
and you do not receive, examine your request, for you may be asking amiss.
If a child asks for candy for lunch and popcorn for dinner, what loving 
father would put their child on such an unhealthly diet?  Rather, out of
love and concern for the child's welfare, a loving parent would deny that
request.  So it is that, from time to time, you ask amis.  At times the 
thing that you believe would bring you pleasure would only result in pain 
and heartache.  As a loving father, who is concerned for your welfare, I 
will say "no" to some requests.  That does not mean that I do not love
you.  Rather it is because I love you that I will say no.

Let Me teach you what you can ask for with total assurance that My answer
will be "yes."  Ask Me that I will give you a heart after My heart.  Ask
that I will transform your thinking and your desires to better line up
with Mine.  Ask that I conform you to the image of My son, that I may be
glorified.  Ask that I teach you to obey and that I manifest Myself to 
you.  Know that it is My desire to do these things for you that your joy
may be full.

If you ask, according to My will, you will surely receive.  Know that My
heart is for you and that it is My desire to give you good gifts.  And,
child of Mine, what better gift can I offer you than Myself -- that  I
speak to you clearly, that you sense My love and My presence and that
you carry My glory and My radience?  Ask that I reveal Myself to you 
and I shall.  Ask that I fill you, that I set you aside for My plans and
purposes, that I empower you and that I place My anointing on you.  Ask
that I give you real kindom work to do with Me, and that I work My glory
through you, that you be allowed to participate with Me in My plans
and purposes, that My son might be lifted up through you and that many 
hearts and lives may be effected through what I do in you.  Ask Me to 
give you more wisdom and more understanding. Ask Me that I might make
you highly effective and that you might come to know the height and the
breath and the depth of My love for you.  Ask Me to give My Holy Spirit
to you, to anoint you with spiritual gifts.  Ask that you might prophecy.
Ask that you might lay hands on the sick and see them recover. Ask that
you might have the fullnes of the fruit of the Spirit in your life.. love,
joy and peace and all else that comes with the fruit of My presense.

Ask Me to give you Myself, that I might inhabit you and that I might lead
and guide you.  Ask and you shall receive.  For it is My good pleasure to
give good gifts to My chidren when the ask Me for them.