This word is submitted by Deb Okereke (healingfire@shaw.ca)

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                A Word For Those Walking in the Wilderness


"Do not allow yourself to be bound to perceived limitations. Soar above
them, refuse to step into that box. Remember you can do ALL things 
through Me. You have yet to realize that it makes no difference what the 
limitations of the body are because the spirit has no limitations, the 
soul can soar as high as its dreams, the heart is not tethered, your vision 
is not blurred.  Set your vision higher, where My grace is needed to take 
you.  Don't settle for crumbs when a feast awaits you. You are not a dog 
that needs to fight under the table for the crumbs of My affection, or for 
the bread of My Presence. 

I know this sojourn in the wilderness has seemed endless and all you seem 
to see ahead of you are mountainous sand dunes - one relentlessly following
after another. The air seems to be biting, dry and gritty and the farthest
thing from a refreshing.  But remember the word I gave you. I am in the
wilderness with you Dear One.  It is only for a season, it is for a good
purpose, a great purpose - for you to be made ready - for your faith boots
to be tested and tried, for them to feel comfortable, like a second skin.
To walk by faith and not by sight, to walk by faith and not by feeling, to
walk with a knowing. 

You have not been placed on a shelf, though to some it may appear so.
Rather, you have been placed in My fire, so the colors of My love can be
more perfectly engraved upon your life. They are becoming beautiful. You
want to argue with Me, but don't. Your eyes are on the dross, the flaws and
imperfections in yourself that you still see. I am not impervious to them
but they do not disgust Me as they do you. For I see the potential under the
dust and scratches. I call you not marred, but MARVELLOUS!!  I have washed
you, and day by day as you seek to draw close and as you cry out for Me to
change your heart, I am working in your inner being. My Hand will be gentle,
for I love you and I would not wound you intentionally, though there will be
pain associated with the revelations,  as they surface from deep places
within.  You will walk in a new liberty! 

Be encouraged that I have much for you and am proud of you. Truly you are
My delight. Everything about you is dear to My heart. I am enamored of you.
Do not call unworthy one I chose to die for!! Do not call unworthy the one 
I have chosen for My Bride, do not call unworthy the one whom I have chosen 
to be a jewel in my crown.  I have raised you up to be seated with Me in 
the Heavenlies, I am training you to reign with Me throughout eternity. I 
am preparing a place for you in glory but I am also preparing a habitation 
for you on the earth below." 

(1 Cor 2:9) "However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"