This word is submitted by Rose Provencher [rosieproven@yahoo.com] 

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                   The Voice of the Turtledove


I am wooing My beloved to come away with Me. The days of allowing the 
battle to rage between your flesh and your spirit can no longer be. 
The flesh must submit, or the battle is lost. 

Now is the time to hear My voice, for it is clear and strong, and My 
desire is for you. In the dark days ahead, I will continue to woo you,
but it will be increasing difficult to hear if you do not get yourself 
attuned to hear it. There will be much noise and confusion and if you 
are not in the spirit; your flesh will want to keep you from hearing. 

There is an urgency in the spirit, this is a crossroads time. What you 
decide now will decide your future in Me. You have to learn to make 
quality decisions based on what is right and good and holy, not based 
on what you want or think that you need. There is dividing that must 
be between the flesh and the Spirit, and your spirit must be free at 
the cost of your flesh. Liberty and freedom are not based on doing what 
you want to do, but doing on what is right. 

You are in a season of disciplining your flesh, of becoming intimately 
acquainted with your spirit, so that in the future when your flesh 
tries to get control you will see it coming and be prepared. It seems 
like it would be so much easier not to have flesh to contend with, but 
I have shown you how. You'll not be freed from it until you leave this 
life, but you can keep it under your spirit's control. This is a crucial 
time individually, but also corporately. If you are to get everything 
that is being given--equipping and impartations--then you have to decide 
now what has the dominance in your life. If you want to go on into what 
I have for you, then there can be no more fence-sitting 

This day and this time is so different because I am preparing a bride 
for Jesus, and the wedding day approaches, her bridal gown is nearing 
completion. The culmination of all things is at hand and you must stay 
strong until the end, or it has all been only a farce played out on
the stage of each of your individual lives. All that has been gained 
will be lost unless you persevere until the end. It has been for that 
purpose that the age of the church was inserted into My plan. I want a 
people that will get a hold of what Jesus came for, and follow Me until 
the end. I want a faithful people like the early saints. I desire the 
church age would end as it began: in the victory that Jesus came to give 
each of you. 

The time has come for you to judge yourselves, to take a careful 
inventory, to be willing to look into dark places in your hearts and 
shed the light there too. As this is the time to bring in the unsaved, 
it is also time for you to bring in the unregenerate parts of your 
heart into the glorious light of the Gospel. It is not even about what 
you want anymore; it is about what I want, and it is about My plan being
fulfilled in you. 

It is a choice whether you will go on in your own darkness, unable to 
see the light for yourselves, or to work to see that light and to 
become that light and truly bring those in darkness into it. You can 
not be in darkness yourselves and bring others to the light, you have 
to be in the light or you bring others to our darkness. 

It is almost time for this unblemished, spotless, perfect in every way 
bride to be presented to Jesus. All is in preparation, the wedding day 
approaches. Can you hear My plea? O come away with Me and stay with Me. 
Hear the way I hear, and see the way I see and be the way I am. 

This will be the great love story, Mine for you and yours for Me. Our 
love will be repeated and repeated throughout eternity, and will always 
cause wonder in the hearer. For you see now but dimly, but you will see 
it all and be in awe when you are with Me in eternity and I tell the 
story from My perspective.