This word is submitted by Jacquelyn Morrison (jacqmorrison@surfbest.net)

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                  Walk in Holiness, Walk in Fear

I have been calling you to myself by wooing you in my tender love toward 
you. I have been calling you to holiness. Yes, I am your Father. Yes, I 
am your dad. Yes, I am your papa. Yes, I am your friend. Yes, I am all 
who you need and want me to be. But, I must also be who I am. I am Holy. 
I am a Holy God. Your Father is Holy, your friend is holy, your daddy is 
holy, your love is holy and my desire for you is that you walk in 
holiness, as I am holy.

You have misunderstood my tender love toward you, for as I wooed you and 
proved myself for you, you saw me through your eyes. But now I say - 
look again, for I am a God that is also to be feared. Your Father, your 
friend, your daddy is to be feared. Yet I say, fear not, for when you 
know my great love toward you, my love will cast out the fear that grips 
you and causes your to run from me instead of toward me. When you see 
and recognize how much a great God is own your side to love you, you 
will reverence me and let me be yours as I desire.


My plans for you have been established from the beginning. Your life has 
been in my hands from the beginning. I held the reins. I held the way of 
your being. Now I say come. With meekness come. In faith come, believing 
me to be the same Father, the same dad, the same friend the same love, 
but yet great and awesome and requiring holiness of you and for you to 
walk in the fear of me.

Fear me that you will not continue to think I accept any attitude you 
want to hold onto and not abhor. Fear me that you will know I will not 
tolerate sin in your life any longer as you say you are mine and that I 
am yours. Fear me that the very way I have ordained for you to come into 
my presence will be reverenced and honored as a pure and holy way. Cast 
off the cares of this world, cast off the lust and pleasures that are 
only for a season and remember who I am. Cast off the murmuring and 
complaining before I give you what you want as I did my children in the 
wilderness when they murmured and complained about the way I was taking 
them to know me. Know that I am taking you into the place of knowing my 
love and knowing that I am your Father who loves you.  Know that I will 
not let you fail because my will for you is the plan I have established 
for you from the beginning and there is no failure in it. Rest in me. 
Rest in knowing I am mighty and glorious and that I am the power at work 
in your life. Rest in knowing that no weapon can be used against you 
without my will. Allow me to bring your faith forward that you will take 
my word and speak my word in your behalf and that you will rest in faith 
because you have my word.  My word is sure; the word has already been 
spoken. I am holy. I want a holy people. I want people that will fear me 
and love me and I want people who will give me themselves. Trust me and 
rely upon me for it is sure, I am your God. I am your Father. I am your 
daddy. I am your papa. I am your friend. I am your love and you are my 
children. Be not afraid, for lo I am with you, even to the end of the 
age.