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Date: May 26, 2005

This word is submitted by Jane Larsen (jlarsen65@hotmail.com)

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                    Out Of The Circle


I had a vision of a circle.  It was a very large one and had been well 
paced.  Some of the circle was in a place of ice and I could see where the 
walker had slipped, gotten up and walked on.  Another part of the circle was 
in a place of intense heat and I could see the footprints in the dust.  
Another part was in a place of storms and I could see thick mud.  Far in 
the distance I saw the person, coat buttoned against the gales, head down, 
walking this endless circle.  As I watched, the Lord laid this in me:

Now, I say now, even today, is the time to break the circle.  You have 
walked a long and wearying route, holding on to what you have, and yet you 
wonder why your steps take you nowhere.  I have heard you say that you 
take one step forward and four steps backward.  I have seen you ponder 
on this, yet again you walk the same steps.

It is not to be like this.  There is a new route for you:  a route of 
plenty and joy, a route of healing and restoration.  That route is not 
along the way you know.  It is not the familiar route.  It is My route.  
It is the route that you take in faith, with your eyes fixed firmly on 
Me, with My promises in your mouth, with My Spirit by your side, guiding 
you.  Did I not say I will tell you "This is the way walk in it?"  Yet 
you walk the endless circle and it is time to break out.

I am taking you a different way and all you need to do is trust Me.  Will I 
leave you to be an orphan of the elements?  Will I let go of the hand of 
My beloved and leave you to the wolves?  Do you remember that I am He who 
will restore the years the locusts have eaten, the small and the large 
locusts?  Everything will be restored and more.  Everything!  And I say 
there is a day, and it is called 'today' when there must be a change, when 
the circle must be trodden no more.

Do not walk on when I call.  Stop and listen to Me.  Let Me lead you, let 
Me guide you, let Me take you from the slippery slope and the desert heat 
and place you where I have prepared a place for you -- an abundant place,
a place that is waiting to restore and renew. It is a place of joy, a place 
of much, the place I have for you.  Trust Me! That is what I ask, that you 
trust Me and walk into the new walk I have for you.