This word is submitted by Mindy Stump (mjs4jesus@juno.com)

Bondages that Steal Identity
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I saw this vision..........

There were people lined up in a straight line as if forming a barrier. These people had their arms crossed across their chest in the form of an "x" and their hands covering their faces. I then saw a hand pressing against these people trying to get them to move, but they refused to release from their position. I then saw behind them a desperate people who were reaching out trying to get to the hand that was pressing in. The hand that was pressing in got harder and harder until it finally broke through knocking out of it's way those who weren't releasing their arms.

The Lord then took me to Joel 1:15

"Alas, for that day! For the day of the Lord is near; It will come like destruction from the Almighty."

The Lord than spoke to me that He is crying out for a desperate people who are reaching with all of their might for Him and that the people forming the barrier were those that were holding onto their bondages. The hand was the hand of God trying to get His people to release their bondages into His hand so that they would not be forced out of the way of what He was about to do. The people in the vision with their arms crossed were signifying an unwillingness to release there bondages and the fact that they had their faces covered with their hands was signifying that they had no identity of sons and daughters of God. Their bondages have stolen that Identity! God is saying that He is not going to be mocked and that He is looking for a desperate people and we have to release that which we hold and reach with all of our might to know Him and to know His will! Desperation is at hand! He alone is all that we need!

Mindy