This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                         Let Me Fill You


Child of Mine, there are going to be times when you feel empty or drained.
Think of those times as alerters that you need to draw near to Me, to linger
in My presence.  You cannot fill yourself, little one, only I can fill you.  
But you can facilitate the process by coming into My presence, by seeking 
after Me, by worship, by filling yourself with My things instead of with the 
things of the world.

Child, you are often in too much of a hurry, wanting to get recharged so 
you can go back out there and do for Me instead of lingering with Me.  Yes,
child, I have called you to be My servant and I have entrusted important
kingdom work into your hands, that you might be allowed to do it with Me.
That was never meant to be such a drain on your time that it would keep
you from spending time with Me.  Just the opposite, the greater the task 
that I have given you, the more you need to linger before Me and bask in
My presence and be filled afresh with My Spirit and anointing, that you
might get your direction and strength from Me.

Look to the example of My dear Son Jesus.  None of you has been given a
more important kingdom task than I gave Him.  He never tried to do it in
His own strength and He never put the tasks I had given Him above spending
time with Me in prayer and intimacy.  If you check My word, you will see
that He often went away to be alone with Me, and it was not uncommon for 
Him to pray all through the night.  So you see it child?  My own Son needed 
to spend much time with Me in prayer and intimacy, and you must do likewise. 

Our relationship together must be the most important thing and the highest
priority in your life.  The things you do for Me are not as important to
Me as the relationship that you build with Me, for it is out of that 
relationship that I will empower you to do My works with Me.  The tasks I 
give you must never be more important to you than spending time with the 
One Who gave you those tasks.  The ministry I place into your hands is not 
as impmortant as the One you serve and minister for -- Me!

So draw near to Me in worship, in prayer and intimacy.  Read My word. Spend 
time with Me and linger in My presence and allow Me to fill you afresh.
Allow Me to revive you and to invigorate you, for it is out of the place of 
prayer and intimacy with Me that the power and the anointing comes.  

Child, it gives Me great joy and great pleasure to place My power upon you 
and to work thorugh you to accomplish kingdom things that are important to 
Me.  I delight in having you work with Me just as an earthly father delights 
when his little toddler tries to help him with one of his chores.  That 
delight comes not because of the task that is being accomplished, but because 
of the love that the father has for his child.  The child's desire to 
imitate its father is a source of great joy to that father.  And Child, I 
have a great love for you, and it blesses Me greatly when you want to 
imitate Me, to be like Me, to do the things that I am doing.  

But child, you cannot do them apart from Me.  It does not please Me when
you try to accomplish them on your own and then bring them to Me to present
them to Me. No, the joy from Me comes when we do them together, you and
I working together in intimacy and in a love relationship.  My own Son said
that He only did what He saw Me doing.  It is My wish and My desire that
you would imitate His example, and do likewise. And how can you see what
I am doing unless you draw close to Me and spend time with Me and allow
Me to reveal Myself to you?  How can you heed My instructions if you do not
stop to listen to My voice and allow Me to speak to you?  How can you do
the impossible with Me if you not allow Me to fill you with My Sprit and
anointing and to place My power upon you?

Child of Mine, draw near to Me, linger before Me and allow Me to fill you 
that I may empower you to do great and mighty things with Me. For I desire 
to use you mightily in this earth to bring glory to My name and to advance
My kingdom.  I love you dearly and that is why I desire that we might work 
together, hand in hand, to do something that is important to Me. Come child,
draw near and be filled afresh.  Let Me fill you.