This word is submitted by Delana Hodge [deejh50@hotmail.com]

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                    Transition

Transition. We are in a place of transition. Jesus in the wilderness 
is our model. 

The wilderness is a temporary but intense place. It is meant to take 
you from one level to the next. It is to prepare you for greater 
ministry. How long you stay in the wilderness depends on your hearts 
attitude. Remember the children of Israel. The wilderness was meant to 
be a temporary place for them. but it ended up being forty years.  
The wilderness was only meant to be a place of transition. 

I am taking you higher. I will teach you how to stand in the wilderness. 
You must know who you are in Me and what is written in My word. Then when 
the devil speaks his lies to you in the wilderness, as he did with My 
Son, you will say to him "It is written..." 

There is another level of ministry awaiting you. Come up higher, endure 
the fire. There is precious gold at the end. He who has begun a good 
work in you will see it though until the day of Jesus Christ.