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Date: Sep 20, 2002

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

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                      Called For A Purpose

Child of Mine, you are called for a purpose and I have a destiny on your
life.  Know that I am actively in the buisness of advancing My kingdom on
this earth, and I have enlisted you to work with Me in doing this.  I am 
involved in fighting a war against the forces of darkness that My kingdom
might advance, and I have drafted you into My army. 

Do you think it is a small thing that I sent My Son to die for the sins
of mankind?  Do you think it was trivial that I permitted Him to suffer
attrocities and to bear great pain and suffering for your sakes?  Do you
think it was a small thing for Me to allow Him Who knew no sin to become
sin for you, to bear your sins and your infirmities?  

I have permitted this because I intently desire for mankind to be reconciled 
to their God, that many will come to know Me and enter into a personal
relationship with Me.  My heart longs for humanity, that My creation might
bow down and worship Me, that those created in My image might know 
fellowship with Me and walk beside Me and hear My voice clearly.  I am
hungry for souls.. I want all to come to know Me.  I have a great passion
for the lost, and I have enlisted you to help Me reach them with the Good
News of what I have already done for them, the Good News of how I love
them and the Good News of how they can live in friendship and fellowship
with their God. I want them to know the good news of how they can 
experience My power and My victory so that they can be overcomers.  I
want them to know that Good News that My plans and purposes for them are
good, and that I desire for their joy to be full through their relationship
with their loving creator.

But how will they come to Me if you do not fulfill your comission as My 
witness?  How will they know if you don't share My reality with them?  
Do you think that the great commission was optional?   Did you think that 
Jesus was not calling you as His witnesses?  Did you think that My Son 
was lieing when He said that you are to do the same works He did (John 
14:12-14)?

Child of Mine, I have commissioned you for a purpose.  I have made you 
a soldier in My army and I have made you a witness of My love.  I do not
send you out empty handed.  I send you out with My anointing, with My
power, with My peace, with My victory and with My love.  It is My desire 
that you be living demonstrations of My ability to tranform and to 
overcome.  It is My desire to manifest My power and My compassion through
you, that the sick might be healed, that the captives might be set free,
that they might know who I am and come to Me.

Do not run from your commission. Do not turn back to your own captivity.
Do not look to your limitations, but look to Me.  Do not turn back, do 
not run away when the enemy comes to resist you.  If you work with Me to
advance My kingdom, you tear down the enemy's kingdom and he will surely
resist you.  But fear not, for I am greater than all of the limited power
of the enemy.  And if you persist, I will give you My victory.  I will make
you overcomers, I will cause you to possess the land.  I will be with you
in battle and I will give you the victory... but you must fight in order to
win it!

Do not look to filfill My commision through your own resources.  Rather
look to Me to anoint you and to empower you and to lead you and to send
you out, fully equipped with all that you need.  Look to Me as your
commander and chief, and know that I will give you My strategies to
advance My kingdom, to win the war against the enemy of your souls and
to cause My glory to be manifest in you and through you.

You have been called for a purpose. Do not shrink back to mediocrity,
rather let Me manifest Myself through you.  Let Me lead you and let
Me empower you and let Me send you forth as My effective witnesses.

Know and understand that I desire to win the lost to Myself, I desire to
bring sight to those blinded by the enemy and freedom to those who the
enemy has bound.  I have commissioned you as My witness, that I might
accomplish My desires for the lost through you.  Do not loose sight of
this.  One prize that I set before you, My church, is the souls of those
who I wish to bring in to My kingdom.  Do not forget that I have 
appointed you as My witnesses.  Be silent no longer.  Be bound and
limited by your own petty strivings no longer; allow Me to manifest
My power and My glory through you, that My kingdom might advance and that
many might come to know Me.  

Heal the sick, cast out demoms, set the captives free.  I have given you 
the authority, but you will not see it manifest in your lives until you
begin to fulfill your commission, until you begin to act as My witnesses 
and to cause My kingdom to advance.  As you proclaim My Good News, you 
will see My power released, for I will back up My word with demonstrations 
of My power and manifestations of My love and of My reality.  You can do 
all the works that My Son, Jesus, did when when He walked on this earth if
you will watch what I am doing and do it with Me.  Do not hold back 
because of your own problems and sitautions.  Advance My kingdom and be
My witnesses, and I will empower you and I will anoint you and I will
cause you to manifest My love and My glory and My power to the lost.