This word is submitted by Joseph Todd (joseph@toddministries.org)

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                      To My people of prayer

I have been preparing many of My people of prayer for the days, which are
ahead. Days of great conflict and victory are approaching. Many of you have
cried out to Me in the night hours with sorrow and confusion as you have
waited upon Me, not understanding the ways in which I am training you.

I am teaching you My ways and training you to wait upon Me even at the risk
of feeling that you have failed Me in some way, for in the days ahead all
that you shall say and do must be done by My Spirit.

There are many of you who once heard My voice clearly and consistently and
yet you have been in a place of silence. You have had much concern that you
have displeased Me, lost your gifts or somehow been disqualified.  Yet
through all of this it has caused you to seek Me in an even greater way and
to desire to know Me and now you shall find yourself praying from a secret
place of friendship and intimacy with Me.

You have come to an end of self, a brokenness before Me that has been a
necessary part of your equipping and I am now able to raise you up in Christ
and in Him alone. For you have said, "if I never hear His voice again it
will be all right; if I never prophesy again, it would be all right; if I
never fulfill the desires of My heart, it will be all right."  Your journey
has brought you to the altar where you are learning to die to self and to
live for Christ. You are being refined in the fire and I can now use you for
My Glory!

You shall speak once again many words in due season and you shall pray and
watch in the night hours with Me, but now you will only carry the burdens of
My heart.  For what you have learned during these difficult times of silence
and waiting on Me is that it can only be done by My Spirit. A complete
surrender must come. I must increase and you must decrease.

My people, you cannot put Me in a box or fit ME in to a busy lifestyle or
give Me a time slot for I am a jealous God and I created you.  You belong to
Me.  You must learn to pray always without ceasing, live a life sensitive to
the moving, leading and directing of My spirit. Everything about your life
is an assignment from Me.  Look for ME in all things knowing that I am
always near and overflowing with love towards My children.