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

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                   A Season of Suddenlies 

You yearn for the higher realms of the Spirit and you shall know them, 
but this is a time of testing your obedience, first and foremost. Go 
through the testings, proclaim your blessings now ALOUD. Receive your 
promises of God, cross the river and possess your inheritance.  Take 
your mountain. Yes, put a stake in it literally.  You have desired to 
walk in the realm of the Spirit - not to walk in the carnality of the 
world, not to walk in the things of the flesh but to inhabit a higher 
plane of My glory. Just a little longer, just a little longer.  Keep 
pressing onwards, keep looking upwards, keep reaching for the gold. 

You shall know My glory which rises upon you to illuminate the darkness 
about you. Yes you shall face fierce opposition, but fear not for I go 
ahead of you - Satan is not a worthy opponent in My eyes. Stand strong, 
be of good courage for you shall take your land, you shall see the 
hordes of darkness pushed back in that place, you shall see mighty 
deliverances wrought in My Name, you shall see the captives reaching out 
from the dark shadows for My light which they see in you, you shall see 
them set free to serve Me, to worship Me.  

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord! Stand still and see the 
Red Sea parted to make a way for you! Do you not see? Open your eyes for 
I am indeed at work and you shall see EVERYTHING come into alignment in 
its appointed time. My arm is bared and I am at work though you do not 
see it, setting things into place. I shall not be thwarted. I shall 
complete that which I have begun. Stand strong, stand strong!! This is 
not the hour to falter, this is not the time for your spirits to flag. 

Take up the sword of the Spirit and cut through those things that are 
coming against you, those things that are binding you. Release the rhema 
words of God into the situations that are trying to discourage you and 
weigh you down. I have commanded My blessing upon you. I shall keep you 
on My chosen path, for none shall be allowed to cause you to veer to the 
left nor the right from My perfect will for your lives. 

Take heart! I have overcome the world. Greater is He that is within you 
than he that is in the world.  The prowling lion shall not have his way 
with you for the Lion of the Tribe of Judah has spoken and declared His 
words over your lives, and I shall prevail for I am raising up a mighty 
army of servant leaders and priests who shall enforce My victory and turn 
the world upside down. 

I beseech you to walk circumspectly and in humility and to seek My Face 
and I shall make known to you My perfect will and I shall reveal to You 
the hidden Manna, the unknown treasures of God, for you have been 
faithful to diligently study My Word and have delved the depths of My 
knowledge, seeking My wisdom. Go now in the strength of the Lord for a 
season of suddenlies is upon you. Suddenly I shall come to My Temple! 
Suddenly the old shall pass away and the new shall be revealed. Keep 
alert and vigilant, this is not a time to slumber. I am watching over My 
Word to perform it. I am looking upon My people to see if there be any 
whose hearts are fully devoted to Me, that I might show Myself strong on 
their behalf. Go forth valiant ones. Put your trust in Me.