This word is submitted by Dennis Drewlo (river_of_life@netzero.net)
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CAUTION: CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE
I see, My children that many of you are feeling pressed. It seems as if your circumstances have gotten the best of you. You ask me, "Why have you forsaken me?". From every side, you feel the pressures of the cares of this life. I tell you that I have not forsaken you.
Many of you are experiencing the pressures of life and are blaming the enemy. But I tell you that not all of what you are experiencing is form the Evil One. I am bringing you into this place of pressure to form you into what I have called you to be. I am squeezing you to bring out what I have placed in you. I am squeezing you to remove all that is not of Me. I have brought what seems to be pressure from every side to cause you to look up, for you redemption draweth nigh. I am putting you in the threshing floor.
I am separating the wheat from the chaff. I am squeezing you to make you into a beautiful diamond. When I am finished, I will have the beautiful "diamond" that I have called you to be.
My desire is to release the New Wine through you, but you must go through the wine press. I desire to get out of you that which is pure and holy so that you may release it to others.
I have led you into a wilderness, leaning on your Beloved. I have called you to put you trust in Me. I have called you to trust Me in the dry places, for at the end you will come out "in the power of the Spirit". Some of you ask for the Promised Land, but do not want to go through the wilderness, but there are no detours. There are no shortcuts.
Some of you feel as if you are in a valley. You long for those "mountain-top experiences" - where you felt My Presence in a stronger way. I say to you that the RIVER flows through the VALLEY! I bring you into the valley so that you will seek My face. I bring you into the valley so that you can bring others up to the mountain-top. I bring you into the valley so that you will learn to walk by faith and not by your feelings. I have not called you to walk by the deceitfulness of your feelings. You cannot have mountains without valleys. My desire is not simply for one-time experiences, but for an eternal relationship with you.
I have called you to "fight the good fight". I have called you to endure hardness like good soldiers. I have called you to be warriors and not worriers. I have called you to be overcomers and not undergoers. I am looking for the YES in your hearts. Do not allow your circumstances to get the best of you, for I am asking for the best of you. I gave you the best of Me.
Remember - I am the potter, and you are the clay. I am molding you and shaping you into the vessels that I have called you to be. I am bringing the Fire of My Presence to solidify what I have placed within you. I am bringing you to a place of sanctification - a place of consecration. I will bring shaking into your life to remove what is not of Me, so that which is of Me may remain.
I ask you to love Me in the dry places, for it is there that I will meet with you. I love you unconditionally, for that is how I ask you to love Me. I see that you have questions, but I ask that your faith in Me would be greater than your need for an answer. I ask you to trust that Father knows best.
I ask you to offer up to Me those things that you are concerned with - yes even the good things, for the GOOD is the ENEMY of the BEST. I ask you to place them on the altar.
I am calling you to let your faith arise. I ask that your faith in Me would be greater than your need for an answer. I ask that when I answer your questions, you do not question My answers.
There is much I desire to give you, but you are not ready for all of it. You ask for the BLESSING, but you must go through the PRESSING. You ask for the Power of the Resurrection, but you must endure the Cross, even though the Cross will be abrasive to your flesh.
Remember that when you walk through the fire and the flame, I will be there. I will remove those things that have kept you bound, and I - the Fourth Man - will emerge.
I have placed a great deposit within you. My desire is to get out of you what I have put in, but you must broken. I will make you like gold refined by fire, but you must be willing to be processed. Do not be quick to say, "This cannot be God". I am breaking My Church so that I may put her back the way I intended her to be. I am seeking to make you a victorious Church - the Church I have always dreamed of.
Do not be afraid, for the best is yet to come. Walk with Me through the fire and the flames and I will make something beautiful out of you.