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

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                             Risk It All

Child of Mine, I want you to learn to step out in faith. I want you 
to stop "playing it safe" and begin to take risks in Me. But I want you
to understand the nature of these risks. I am not asking you to defy 
reality in the guise of "blind faith" and I am not asking you act against 
all common sense. That is not what I mean by "stepping out in faith." In 
fact, that type of blind action is falls under the category of 
presumption and foolishness, and it is not what I am calling you to.

I want to open your eyes to see in the Spirit. I want to clearly and
accurately see what I am doing, and then I want you take a risk and
begin doing it with Me. I want you to bypass natural limitations to
move with Me in My boundless anointing. It is faith, because it is not
possible without My empowerment and anointing. It is not presumption,
because you are not doing your own thing when you obediently do what 
I am doing.

If you make attempts at "faith" that are not based on what I am doing,
you will fail, because it has no substance to it. Do you remember what 
My Son said when He walked on this earth? He said that He can only do 
what He sees Me doing and He can only say what He hears Me saying. 
That is how He operated in faith instead of presumption--He did only what 
I was doing. He had the ability to see what I was doing and to bring it 
into this world. That is how He accomplished such great miracles in My 
name--because He operated with Me and in the center of My will.

Dear child, you have been called to complete the tasks that He began. My
Son proclaimed My kingdom while He walked this earth. Now He has returned
to Me in Heaven, but He has commissioned you as His witness. You are to
do what He did--to see what I am doing and to do it with Me. Do not allow
yourself to be restricted by human limitations, for I am able to do all
that I desire to do, and I empower you to do it with Me.

Watch what I am doing, do only what I am doing, and My mighty power
will flow through you to accomplish My purposes. Don't stop and analyze
it, as Peter did when he first walked on the water. Of course it is
not possible in the natural, but you are not moving in the natural. You
are moving with Me in My anointing to accomplish My purposes. Don't
become distracted by your limitations; keep your eyes on Me and you will
continue to do that which is humanly impossible.

Don't worry about whether or not you are qualified, for the qualification
of men cannot carry you into the realm of faith. Simply watch what I am
doing, and believe that I am really doing it. Then extend your hand and
begin to do it with Me. Remember, thing things that you do with Me are not
done for your sake, but to accomplish My purposes. It is all about what
I want to do, and when you do it with Me, I will empower you in it. Yes,
I am fully willing to empower My own to accomplish My purposes. So step 
forward boldly and do not doubt that I will use you as you make yourself
available to Me.

Child of Mine, I want to teach you to see what I am doing. Then I want 
you to learn how to step out in faith and do it with Me. Trust in My 
ability and not in your own, and watch how I will glorify My name 
through you. Yes, just watch Me and see what I am doing. Then step out 
in faith and risk it all, and you will not be disappointed, for you will
be walking in faith and moving in My power and in My anointing.