This word is submitted by Steven Bliss [godsfire@woh.rr.com]

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                              Releasing

I am washing. I am about to release a cleansing. There is a rain available 
to those who will walk in. There is a time of cleansing; a way for those who 
will, to draw nearer to Me.

The fire has burned many of you. You have been tested. The fire has burned 
away that which is needless and useless. Now allow My Spirit to wash away 
the residue. Watch carefully what you allow back in; for there is a 
seven-fold return soon-coming. Weigh fully what you see at the door.

Do not be afraid of this rain. It will be different from what you have seen. 
It will be a new expression of Me: a flooding you've not experienced. I am 
washing away not only the ash of the past and the ash of the present. I 
desire to flow freely within you. I am waiting those who will allow Me to 
wash away the ash of their future. I desire to flow. I wish to show you a 
new flood of My ways.

No longer am I satisfied to take the path you wish Me to travel. No longer 
will I be happy in following narrow man-made trenches.  My rain is coming. 
It is flowing even now. I am about to burst forth through you and destroy 
the gates that keep you restrained.

I am about to release a powerful wave that moves not only where I have been. 
But the discerning eyes and ears will see Me flooding onto and into the 
places I want My people to come into.  I am bursting forth. I am washing My 
people. I am driving them into new ways and new levels. There will be a new 
venue and location where I can minister.

Ask Me.  My Spirit is bursting forth. The time for refreshing is coming to a 
close. There is a new work. The time to eat the meat has arrived. Stretch 
forth your arms in praise. Stretch for your arms in ministry; the arms of 
the redeemer have shown you the model. He was stretched forth that My 
kingdom could be advanced.

Release the flotsam* of your private life that the Spirit can use you. Let 
the waters wash away all that is unnecessary. He will show the way. He is 
ever-drawing all to the Son.  I am coming like a flood. The enemy can not 
withstand My ways. He can not stand against Me. His ways will be washed 
away.

Flow in the authority I have placed within you. Living waters are ready to 
burst forth from within you. The waters have been bound too long. I am 
releasing the bonds for a new wave of My flowing.  Learn to flow within Me, 
that you be not terrified. I am the Lord God.


* Note: The word flotsam is "Wreckage or cargo that remains afloat after a 
  ship has sunk" or "Floating refuse or debris."