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

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                        Keep Your Eyes Fixed On Me


Child of Mine, you do not need to understand the big picture.  You
merely need to focus your eyes on Me and watch where I am going and 
then to follow Me.  I will not lead you astray.

Child, so often you do not want to begin to move until you know the
destination and understand the entire route.  But I say to you, you 
must fix your eyes on Me and watch Me and move when I begin to move.
Child, I often do not tell you the end at the beginning.  I ask you
to walk with Me, to walk in faith, to trust Me.  Child, as you step
out in faith, doing what you do know to do, then I will meet you and
give you further direction.  

When I walked with My disciples, I did not give them the whole picture.  
I only told them what was needful for them to know at the moment.  Do 
you think that I would treat you differently than I treated My disciples?  
Are you not also My disciples, called by My name and committed to follow 
Me? So why do you think I would treat you differently?  Why do you think 
I would lay out the whole plan before you take a single step in the
direction I am leading you.

Look to My servant Abraham.  When I sent Him out, I did not give him
any destination.  I merely told him to follow Me and I showed him where 
to go as he was already in motion.  And in obedience to My command, he 
left his home and he left his family and he set out to follow Me. And I 
did not lead him astray.  I did not abandon him.  I protected him en route, 
even restoring his wife to him, untouched, after she'd been taken into 
the king's Harem.  I was with him and I led him step by step -- though I 
did not give him the entire plan at once.  I showed him where he was to 
go. And when he got there, then I showed him what the next move was.

It will be the same for you, child of Mine.  I will give you a piece, a 
simple direction.  Obey Me in that before you expect to receive more 
clarity of direction from Me.  I am not looking for someone to discuss
My plans with, to evaluate them for Me and offer Me feedback.  Rather, I 
am looking for faithful servants who will obey Me because they love Me. 

Have I not said "Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean
not on your own understanding?"  That means that you do not have to have
the entire picture, you do not need to understand all of My plans for
you before you begin to obey Me in them.

Are you seeking Me for direction?  Then do what I have already shown you 
to do. And when you have done it well, I will show you more.  I will
continue to lead you step by step down the path that I have chosen for
you.  Do not fear that I will abandon you en route.  Trust Me.  Begin to 
step out in faith and do that which I have already shown you to do.  For 
as you obey Me, then I will reveal more to you.  

Keep your eyes fixed on Me.  Go where you see Me go and do what you see
Me do.  Do with Me what I am doing.  But you must watch Me to see where
I am going and you must watch Me to see what I am doing.  If you want to
go with Me, then keep your eyes fixed on Me and follow Me.  It really is
that simple.