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

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                           Holiness

Child, I have called you to a standard of holiness.  You must resist
temptation.  If you want to walk in purity before Me, you will have to
make decisions of holiness.  The enemy of your souls will come along 
and entice you with certain things, designed to lead you into sin.
His desire for you is to get you to sin, that he might heap coals of
condemnation upon your head.  

If you fall into a sin, the enemy will come along as your accuser.  He 
knows that he cannot accomplish much by accusing you to Me, because you 
are covered in the blood of Jesus and My Son has become the propitiation 
for your sins.  So he will accuse you to yourself.  And most often you 
will be quick to agree with the accusation and to heap condemnation upon 
yourself.  This separates you from Me.  It makes you want to run away from 
Me because of the shame and guilt that comes with condemnation.   But I 
want you to run to Me, that I might forgive and cleanse you.  I want you 
to come boldly before Me and receive the restoration that My Son has 
purchased for you on Calvary.

I expect you to resist temptation, for the devil will flee from you
when you submit to Me and resist him.  I expect you to walk in holiness
and victory.  I do not condone or encourage sin.  But there will be times
when you will fall.  And when you do fall, I do not expect you to condemn
yourself.  I do not expect you to run away from Me and hide.  Rather I
expect you to come into My light and to confess to Me what you have done.
I expect you to turn from your sin and turn to Me for forgiveness and for
transformation.   Have I not said in My word that if you will confess your
sins, that I am faithful and just to forgive your sins and to cleanse you
from all unrighteousness?  True holiness is to come immediately to Me for 
that cleansing whenever you need it.  Along with that, present yourself
to Me that I might transform you to sin no more in that area.  I can give 
you victory in this area as you submit it to Me.  However I cannot help you 
when you are running away from Me because I will not override your own free 
will.

True holiness is to be set apart for My use and for My purposes.  I expect
a separation between My people and the world.  I hold you to a higher
standard that the world holds it's own to.  I expect you to intentionally
choose My way and to do your best to resist temptation.  I expect you to
make choices for holiness instead of choices for sin.  

BUT that is NOT all that I expect from you in the realm of holiness.  
I expect you to run directly to Me when you do fall.  I expect you to 
present yourself to Me and not separate yourself from Me.  True holiness
is receiving My forgiveness and restoration and allowing Me to cleanse
and purify you.  Have you not read how I held David blameless, even though
he had committed grievous sins of adultery and murder?  You see, he ran
to Me and begged Me to change and transform his heart that he would not
sin against Me anymore.  He received My forgiveness and My restoration. 
And now I count him as blameless.  He was forgiven and made holy because
he ran to My light and confessed his sins and desired to be changed and
have his relationship with Me restored.  And because He came to My light,
I did all of that for him.

Holiness is to be set aside for My purposes.  I do not want you contaminated
by sin or impure thoughts.  But, should the darkness touch you, then true
holiness is to run back to My light as soon as possible and be restored that
you might once again be set apart for My purposes.  True holiness is to be 
one that I can use any time.  If ever anything occurs to make you unusable, 
then you immediately bring it to Me for correction and restoration.  It is 
not holiness to condemn yourself.  It is not holiness to separate yourself 
from Me or to disqualify yourself from My plans and purposes for you.  It is 
not holiness to say that the shed blood of My Son has no power in your case.  
That is not true holiness.  

True holiness is to do your best to keep yourself pure -- but when the
impurity seeps in, then you run back to Me as fast as you can to be 
washed and cleansed and purified through My Son's atonement.  Let nothing
separate you from Me, not even the "true" accusations of the enemy against
you.  For I say to you that true holiness is to receive the purification
and character transformation that My Son has made available to you.  True
holiness is to allow yourself to be cleansed and set back in right relation
with Me as soon as possible, then to do your best to submit to My will.
And I will help you to do this if you will run to Me and come into My light.

I have called you to walk in holiness and I have given you the means by 
which to do so.  Now go and walk in it.