This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis [ts@godspeak.net]

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                     My Holiness Will Transform You

My child, I want you to know that I love you and I delight in you. I am 
about to draw you into a greater depth of intimacy than you have ever 
walked in before. I am doing this is in response to your prayers, and
I am more than happy to answer this prayer. But I want you to understand 
that My answer will not walk out quite the way you anticipate--for I am 
a holy God, and if you want to live in a greater measure of My presence, 
you must also walk in a greater measure of holiness and obedience, and 
you will be held accountable in more areas.

I am about to reveal more of Myself to you and bring you into a higher
measure of My tangible presence and of My holiness. This will be 
frightening for you, because My holiness will convict you of your own 
sins and shortcomings. Yes you will become aware of every imperfection 
and every impurity, and you will be horrified with how you will see 
yourself. For when you stand before Me and taste of My holiness, you 
cannot help being overwhelmed with the guilt of your own sin. 

That is why I want you to know, in advance, that your sins are forgiven. 
Each and every sin is under the blood of the Lamb, and is forgiven and 
cleansed. You may feel horrified with yourself, but I am not horrified 
with you.

You will find that I am good and I am loving and I am full of mercy
and grace. At the same time, child, you will find that I am truthful
and I am realistic. I am going to examine some areas of your life where
you will not measure up. But I am not coming to condemn you, but to 
reveal and then to transform. Child, you will feel very small in My 
manifest presence. But know this, I am with you and I am for you and 
I will cause you to be changed and transformed.  

I am telling you this in advance, so that when you stand before Me 
and feel the intensity of My holiness and the fire of My presence, you 
will remember that I am pleased with you. I am going to take you farther
in Me than you have ever gone before. I love you child, and you are a 
cause of great delight to Me. But in order to draw you closer, I must 
clean you up, for sin cannot stand in My presence. 

My glory will transform you until you become the person who I have 
destined you to be. I am going to work a true humility in you, a 
humility that will not resist My call and My destiny on your life. I 
am going to give you eyes to see and ears to hear at a level that you 
have never moved at before. I am going to break the fetters of unbelief 
off of you and I am going to give you a gift of faith that will move 
mountains. I am going to allow you to come to an intimacy with Me that 
you have never experienced before.