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

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                        I Knew Your Potential

Child of Mine, I loved you before you knew Me.  I saw you before you knew 
that I was watching; I recognized you and I knew your potential.  I 
protected you long before you belonged to Me, because I knew you would one 
day be Mine.  I met you in little ways even before you thought to seek after
Me, showing you glimpses of My love.  I provided for your needs before you 
knew to ask Me to do that for you.  You were precious to Me even before you 
began to serve Me. I created you, I called you by name, I knew you and I
loved you dearly.

Now you are called by My name. Now we walk together in intimacy. Now you
are learning to know My voice more and more clearly, and I speak to you often. 
Now you are committed to obey Me and dedicated to pursue My purposes.  Now I 
am filling you with My spirit and My anointing, and I am using you to 
advance My kingdom.  Now you are maturing in Me and fulfilling the destiny
that I prepared for you.  Now you are walking in close intimacy with Me and
I am revealing more and more of Myself to you.

But what if the person who introduced you to Me gave up on you before you 
received Me as your Lord and Savior? What if there was no one to tell you
the good news of what I did for you on Calvary? What if they looked at you 
and could not see the worth I had placed in you, so they wrote you off? What 
if no one was there to lead you to Me?  Then where would you be?

Don't you realize that the ones who don't know Me yet are just as precious
to Me as you were before you were saved?  Don't you know that I love them
just as much as I loved you?

Child of Mine, don't write off the treasure that I have placed in the hearts
of those who have yet to know Me.  Don't get so caught up in their sin and
rebellion that you don't see the call and destiny I have placed on their 
lives.  It is true that they are not walking in that yet...they need someone
to show them, they need someone to teach them of Me.  They need someone to
testify of My goodness and to demonstrate My love and My power to them. They 
need to experience My deliverance and My provision through the prayers of 
My people.  They need to be healed when they are sick. They need to be set 
free when they are oppressed by the devil. They need someone to tell them
how much I love them. They need someone to show them how to enter into a
saving relationship with Me.

Who do you think I have chosen to do that? Who can I send to them with My 
good news?  That is right, My precious servant, I am sending you! I have
placed the Good News within you and I expect you to share it with others.
I expect you to shine brightly for Me through their darkness, to be the
light that draws men to Myself.  

I see them even before they know Me, I see who they will become in Me once
they are Mine.  I know them and they are precious to Me, just like you were 
precious to Me before you knew Me.  I have not written them off and I don't 
want you to write them off either. I know their potential just as I knew 
yours.  I want them to walk in the fullness of that potential, and I want
you to help them do it.  That is why I need you to tell them about Me; I 
need you to demonstrate My love for them;  I need you to move in My power 
on their behalf to set them free from the guiles of the enemy.  I need you to 
be My witness, I need you to tell them about Me.

Are you willing?