This word is submitted by David Apel (apelexc@mcmsys.com)

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                       Great Expectations

For My heart has lifted to a level of great expectation for My people. I 
have treated you like the choicest of gardens. I have nurtured you and 
tended you and pruned you to provide the choicest of fruit. And now My 
heart sings in expectation over you. 

For now is the time of the harvest and I look upon each of you with great 
pride and expectation. For I know what is in each of you. And though you 
do not see all that you are, it is in you. You may just see a little 
sprout, a small beginning, but just as the corn grows, so shall you. For 
no one knows how it happens, but only I, for I have placed in you a harvest. 
For you are My seeds and as you die to self before Me, so shall you yield 
a harvest. 

And the love that you share, that I have planted in you, a love that I 
planted even before you were, is of great value. For My love shall shine 
forth. And the anointing, like the greatest of olive trees, so shall My 
oil flow forth from you. For the days ahead are of great tribulation, but 
it shall be the time of great glory that shall be seen through My people. 
For I will never leave you nor forsake you, but I shall stand with you and 
walk with you for I am next to you and I am in you.