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Date: May 20, 2002

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

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			Growth Spurts


Child, I desire to take you through a series of growth spurts. Do not
think that you have already arrived, for there is yet much that I would
teach you.  There is yet much that I desire to refine in you.  It is
My desire to work My character and My nature in you, to conform you to
the image of Christ, to transform your thinking to line up with Mine.

Child, I stretch you that you might grow. I put you in faith-producing
situations that I migth see your faith rise up.  I put you in patience
producing situations that I might work the fruit of patience and 
righteousness in your lifes and character.

When challenges arise, look towards them eagarly, with antisipation of
what I will do in the midst of them.  Child, My desire is that you will
meet each challenge in My power and authority instead of from your own
resources.  I have already given you the victory in each situation.  But
just as the Israelites had to take their promised land, so must you 
fight for the victory that I have already ordained for you.  I have 
already made a way of escape from every situation, just as I knew I was
going to part the Red Sea and allow My people to cross in safety.  They
did not know what I had planned, but I had a plan to deliver them.  My 
plan was to deliver them in such a way that My name was lifted up and 
exaulted and so that they had a testimony and so that I was glorified.

Child, it is the same for you.  I have a plan.  I do not allow you to get
into a circumstance that catches Me off guard.  I have already gone before
you and I have prepared your path to victory and your path to safety.
I am the Lord your God, your deliverer, and I will surely deliver you.
It will not come in the ways you plan, for My plans surpass human reasoning.
It is My desire to give you victory and to cause you to rise up victorious 
in Me, and I able to bring it to pass.

When I put you in a growth situation, do not fret.  Do not look for a way
to escape it.  Rather look to Me with eagar anticipation to see what I am
doing.  Look to see what My route of victory is for you.  I shall cause you
to walk in My victory and I shall bring My glory into your situation.  Do
not look to the circumstances, look to Me.  I am your deliverer and I am
the one who causes you to grow in My by learing to walk in My victory and
in My overcoming power.