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

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                           Look to Me

Child of Mine, shake off the dust of complacency that has settled over 
you.  It is time to rise up with great expectancy and look to Me -- just as 
a faithful pet waits at the door for the master to enter -- excited and 
eager for them to come through the door and enter the room.  Likewise, you
are to look to Me with expectancy, for I desire to meet you in wonderful 
ways.  

I desire to manifest Myself to you.

To some, I will be the One who breaks yokes and bondages and sets captives 
free.  So if you are in bondage, cry out to Me for your deliverance.  And 
look expectantly to Me, for I will do it.  Did I not say that I came to 
set captives free?  I surely will do this for you if you look to Me for
your deliverance.

Some of you need to look to Me as your healer.  You have sicknesses and 
ailments that hinder you and hold you back.  know that I have come in your 
midst with healing in My wings.  And I have desired to gather you under My 
wings as a hen gathers her chicks.  So run to Me to receive from Me the 
healing that you need.  For My eyes are toward you, and I am willing for you 
to be well.  So come and receive healing from My hand.  Run to Me to receive.

Some of you wait for Me to rescue you from desperate situations.  Some of
you face financial crisis that can make even the most bold become 
faint-hearted.  But I am The Lord Your provider.  I will provide for you
as you put your finances under My lordship and obey Me in the tithes and 
offerings.  It is My desire to prosper you and make you well.  It is My 
desire to provide the job you need or to provide the food or to provide 
the housing.  I do not want My children to suffer lack. So look to Me,
come to tell Me what you need.  Have I not said, 'Ask and it shall be given 
to you' -- and financial provision shall be given to those of you who have 
truly made Me Lord of your finances.  But you must look to Me and you must
ask Me.

And those who are broken-hearted also stand at the door and look to Me.
And I say to you that I will turn your sorrow into joy and your mourning 
into dancing.  And I am about to break off the yoke of depression that the 
enemy is shackling you with.  It is time for the spirit of fear to be loosed 
from My people, that you be settled in My peace.  It is not My desire for 
condemnation to rule you, for I have said that there is not any condemnation 
to those who are in My Son.  I desire to break fear and condemnation and 
rejection off of you and to make you secure in My love for you.  So if these  
things trouble you, look expectantly to Me.  I am the author and finisher of 
your faith. I am your protector and your keeper.  Do not focus your attention 
on the problems so that you become overwhelmed by them. Instead look to Me, 
for I am the solution to all of your problems!

It is My desire to deliver My people from the things that hold them back 
in their walk with Me and to thrust you into the place of peace and victory.
So look expectantly to Me.  And ask of Me and you shall receive -- when you 
ask with a pure heart.  Run to Me and I will not push you away.  Rather, I 
will gather you into My arms and receive you.  Do not fear that I might
reject you.  The blood of My son has sealed your acceptance in the beloved.
There is nothing you have done that is so bad that I cannot wash you clean 
and set you as holy before Me.  So, allow My indwelling Holy Spirit to 
transform you -- for I desire to thrust you into the place of victory and 
to cause your joy to be full.

So rise up.. shake off the dust of complacency and look eagerly to Me.
And I will meet you in your place of need and work My glory in your 
situation.  Look eagerly to Me!