This word is submitted by Jane Larsen (jlarsen65@hotmail.com)

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                Having Walked the Desert...

You have been in the desert and the time there has been hard and long.  
You have felt the heat on your back and the hardness of the walk; you 
have bent, you have struggled, but you have not broken.  You have been 
digging wells in the desert for those who come after you.  Listen to My 
words and gain strength, for there are others who will walk this way, 
the desert way, and drink from these wells and be sustained.  There are 
others who will follow and gain strength from what you have endured.  
You are not alone.  This is a familiar walk and it is not the final one.

Listen.  Does the desert have no end?  Do you not see the sun rise by day
and set by night?  Do I not send relief in the way of the moon and the
stars, so the Earth can rest and have peace and grow?  Does the rain fall
from the heavens without ceasing?  No.  For My mighty right hand controls
these things, controls the winds and the seas, the setting and the rising 
of the sun.  How much more will I care for you, My precious one?  Will I
abandon you in the desert place with no refuge and no shelter from the 
night storms?  Not I.  You have traveled long and you have traveled far 
but now you come to a time of release.

Release.  A time of flooding, spiritual flooding is upon you.  It is upon
you and I say lift your weary arms and give thanks.  Lift your weary arms
and clap for joy and fill the air around you with praises for a time of
spiritual flooding is upon you.  As you leave this desert place, do not 
look back. You have learned and gained all that you needed, you have left 
wells for those who will walk this way, you have trudged a path and have 
come through.  You have completed a time of heat and testing and hardness.  
You have set your face to Me as flint, despite all that has come your way, 
and now is the time to rejoice.

Rejoice!  Lift your weary arms and your tear-stained face and let Me hold
you in My arms.  Let Me fill you with peace.  Be still.  Be still.  I am 
not man that I should lie, nor powerless that I would let you trudge that 
desert route unaided or alone with no way out.  I am the way.  Set your 
eyes on me and do not grow weary.