This word is submitted by Larry Sloma (larrysloma1@msn.com)

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             I Came To Set You Free


The Lord would say to you, have not I come to you to set you free?  Free 
from the yoke and bondages that prevent you from fellowship with Me? 
Did not I desire the restoration of all things as they were in the garden 
and then bring even more to you than what the first Adam received from 
Me?  The freedom that I bring and the fruit of the Spirit is not of your 
flesh nor the experience you receive from life.  I bring it to you.  The 
love, joy, peace, long-suffering and other fruit of the Spirit comes from 
Me.  

It is not the joy that wells up from within you from the experience of 
the flesh nor the soul.  It is the joy that wells up from My Spirit and 
My being within you from the time of your new birth.  My joy is not a 
happy face.  My joy is what the Emmaus travelers experienced.  Did they 
not want to stay where the joy was?  This is being in the Spirit and not 
in the flesh.  

You will not want to go back to the flesh once you are in the middle of 
the Spirit.  You will want your flesh to die daily.  You will desire to 
move away from soulish experiences with Me.  You will then desire to 
never depart from My glory right there with you forevermore.

This is why I came and what I brought for you.  To be with Me is My 
greatest gift.  You can receive it no other way than through Me.