This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (TeresaS@xc.org)
My Way Is Not Fear
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Children, the enemy is unleashing His strategy against the church and against the nations. His strategy is fear, anxiety and terror. He would try to have your hearts fail for fear.. fear of the future, anxiety over the present, concern that your past will rise up and cause you harm. He would have you living in dread of Y2K, storing up food and supplies, and directing your attention to provide for yourself instead of looking to me to provide for you. Children, do not be motivated by fear, be motivated by my spirit and my direction. He would have you afraid of lawlessness and physical harm coming against you. Don't you know that I have more angels to unleash to take care of you than the enemy has demons to try to harm you? Do not trust in your own resources, trust in ME and my resources.
My way is NOT fear, terror and anxiety. It is peace. It is an assuredness of who I am and of who you are in me. It is knowing that I am your father God and that I will take care of you as you commit yourselves to serving me ... for I take care of my children. I have assured you over and over in my scriptures that I am all powerful, that I am a good father, that I take care of those who diligently seek and serve me.. so why are you struggling to believe this? It is because the enemy has unleashed a dark cloud to come against your minds.. to try and confuse your thinking, to cloud the truth of my word. If you fight this in the natural, you will not overcome, because this is a battle in the spirit. You cannot change your thinking patterns though your own strength. You cannot eliminate your fear without putting your minds and your hearts in submission to my spirit and inviting me to come in with my liberty and my transformation.
Children, I desire to do this for you. I desire to give you my peace. I desire to fill you with my joy. I desire to make you secure in my love and in my caring for you. I desire for your joy to be full regardless of the circumstances around you, that you be supernaturally sustained by my love and that there is a certainty in your heart of my faithfulness and of my ability to work my glory in any situation that I allow you to encounter.
Children, if you love me, then obey me; commit your way unto me and I will direct your path. And I will watch over you and guard you and provide for you. Did I not provide for my children Israel through Joseph in the midst of great famine that swept over their world? Did I not provide for them when Moses led them out of Egypt into my liberty? Did their shoes not wear out? Did their clothes not sustain the entire trip? Did I not strengthen them that there was not a single feeble one among them? Did I not feed them in the wilderness and give them water to drink? Did I not command ravens to feed Elijah when he tarried by the brook during the drought? Did I not ordain a widow to care for him when the brook dried out and also supernaturally make provision for them to eat? Did I not close up the lion's mouth and keep Daniel safe because he was my faithful servant? Did I not multiply the fish and the loaves to feed the multitudes when they came to hear my Son teach and reveal my kingdom to them?
Children, I am the God that does not change. I change not. If I have provided for my servants in the past, why do you think I would not provide for you? Look to me. Look to me with expectant hearts.. for I shall take care of those who look to me and trust in me. I will not forget my faithful servants, I will not allow the enemy to rule their lives.
The battle over your minds is not a natural battle. Do not fight it in your own natural (carnal) strength. Fight it in the spirit.. for it is a spiritual attack against your thinking patterns... an attack that desires to produce fear and anxiety and dread. An attack that desires to move you to try and take care of yourselves instead of trusting me to take care of you. Be faithful and continue what I have called you to do. Do not stop my kingdom work to store up for yourselves.. be about taking care of my kingdom and I will take care of you.
Fear not, children, for I am with you! I am mighty. I am capable. My heart is for those who's hearts are for me; who diligently seek after me and who serve me with all of their being. I am a loving father and I will take good care of you. Allow my spirit to wash over you right now.
Allow me to show you the areas where you are relying in your own strength and in your own capabilities instead of relying on me. Confess these to me and present your fears and anxieties to me. Allow me to forgive your unbelief and to heal up your wounds and to give you an assuredness of who I am and of how faithful I am.
Turn to me children, and allow me to flood you with my peace in the midst of what seems like perilous times. My will for you is peace and I will accomplish this in your lives if you are willing.
Children, I am for you and I am with you and I am well able to provide for you and I am willing to do so. So be of good cheer and do not be afraid. I will take good care of you.