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

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                     This is the season

Child, this is the season where I am releasing faith in the hearts of those
who have been asking me for it. 

Many of you have not understood what you were praying when you would ask,
"Lord, increase my faith."  Did you think that faith drops into your spirit
simply by osmosis?  Did you think that I would work faith in you apart from
putting you into faith-producing circumstances?  

Child, it is a good thing for you desire to see My power and My glory
move in your circumstances.  It is a good thing if you desire to pray
for the sick and see them  healed.  It is a good thing if you desire
to speak My word with authority and see blinders fall off of people, that
they may receive the good news of the gospel.  Child, these are good 
things, and I have already promised in My word that I will give you those
type of good things when you ask Me for them.  So you do well to ask.
Continue to ask Me to increase your faith.  Continue to ask for faith to
pray for the sick and see them healed.  Continue to ask for faith to
move mountians.

But child, do not be surprised when I begin to answer your prayer.  I
assure you, that I will allow you to be put into situations that challenge
your faith.  I do not allow it that you might be tormented.  Rather I
allow it that your faith might grow.  For, even before I allow you into
the situation, I have already devised a strategy to bring My glory into
that situation and work in it for your good.

It is My desire to build your faith experiencially, because it is when
I meet you in your desperate situation that you know, down deep, that 
I am faithful and that I am powerful and that I am able.  And the knowing
of that is what builds faith.  I allow you to experience the crisis or 
desperate sitation and then I allow you to experience My delivreance in
it.  Then you know in the innermost core of your being that I am able!
That knowing is material from which faith is built.  As I come through
for you again and again, as you experience success after success in seeing
My faithfulness, then faith builds in your being.

Child, you can facilitate this process.  You can choose to keep your eyes 
and your focus on Me in the difficult situations.  When I led the children 
of Israel out of Egypt to the Red Sea with an army chasing them, they saw 
the circumstances as an opportunity for destruction and personal ruin.  But 
Moses saw it as an opprotunity for Me to demonstrate My power and My 
deliverance to My people.  You see, they looked at the circumsntances and
it drained what little faith they had.  But Moses looked at Me, and he 
looked to Me and he saw how I came through for him.  Child, look to My 
faithfulness and My ability in the midst of your difficult cirsumstances, 
and I say to you, your faith will grow.  

Remember, My goal in allowing these difficulties is to increase your faith, 
so I am already planning to meet you in them and I am already planning to 
work on your behalf.  Trust that My word is true.  Trust that My intentions 
are good. Trust that I am a faithful and loving Father who takes good care 
of My children.   Child, put your focus and attention on My nature and My 
character instead of on the circumstances.  From that posture, call out to 
Me and watch what I will do in your situation. Watch how I will demonstrate 
My faithfulness.  Watch and see what I will do.  And as you see what I will 
do, your faith will grow.  For child of mine, this is the time and the
season where I am answering your prayer, "Lord increase my faith."