This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis [ts@godspeak.net]

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             Do You Really Believe That I Love You?

Dear Child, if you truly believed that I love you, then condemnation 
would have absolutely no power over you. If you knew My love and 
acceptance deep down in your innermost being, then sin would not have 
the ability to make you want to hide from Me. My love is a transforming 
love and it overcomes the power of all darkness in your life. While I 
hate sin, I love My children. That motivates Me to separate the sin far 
from My own; to empower them to walk in My holiness, purity and victory.

My love makes you an overcoming one. It sets you apart from any failures 
of the past, and it breaks their power over you. It removes every shred 
of shame and condemnation, for there is no condemnation for those who
belong to My Son.* My love sets you free to begin blossoming in Me. It
allows you to take on My very nature, for I am at work in you to transform 
you. I am confirming you to the image of My Son and I am making you more
and more like Him.

As you respond to My love, it begins to release a new authority in your 
life.  It empowers you overcome the things that previously overcame you.

Child, I invite you to draw into My presence with no fear of rejection.
I will not push you away, because you are truly and completely loved
and accepted in the beloved. And dear one, as you draw into My presence,
My glory will begin to shine on you. You will become a carrier of My 
presence; a carrier of My glory and of My love to a lost and dying 
world.

I have set you in the place of victory and overcoming so that you can 
become an agent of My transformation. Do not run back to the rock of 
condemnation and try to climb under it again. Do not give the enemy that 
power over you, for you are loved and accepted in Me.

Receive My love, for it is freely given. Learn to walk in it, and you 
will see My glory come into every aspect of your life. Be conformed 
into My image and you will shine brightly for Me.

Dear one, if you are not at this place yet, do not fear or fret. I love
you right now, right were you are at. But because I love you, I cannot
leave you in defeat or despair. My love will draw you up. My love will 
strengthen your character and it will transform you. I am not repelled
or appalled by your inadequacies or faults; I will pick you up in My arms 
and hold you close to Me. But I also will not leave you in that place
of inadequacy and I will not allow you to remain in a place of defeat. 
I can't do that because I love you too much, and you are too precious
to Me. I have ordained you to a place of victory and overcoming, and
My love will see that you get there. 

I have prepared a special destiny for you, because you are precious to 
Me. My love will strengthen you and cause you to grow, until you are 
able to walk in the fullness of that destiny. My desire is that your
joy might be full and that you might walk in abundant life. And as 
you become fully secure in My love for you, as you begin to believe 
down deep in your innermost being that I really love you, my desire will
be fully accomplished in your life.

So, dear one, take Me at My word and begin to experience the full
measure of My great love for you.

* Romans 8:1