This word is submitted by Tammie Gelis (needgrace2@hotmail.com)

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                     Preparation for the child within



I had a dream last night through which the Lord was speaking to me regarding
some of us in the body of Christ.

In the dream I drempt of a woman, pregnant with child. The labor pains
starting already. Almost time to take the trip to the hospital and see this
new birth come forth.  As she walks around her house pausing now and then in
pain, she started yelling out to her husband. She starts realizing she has
no bed for the baby, she has no diapers for the baby. She actually had
nothing in the house that was needed for this baby to come home to.

I kept hearing the father say she is not prepared. She is not ready for this
baby to come forth. She has been so busy taking care of herself and how she
looks and appears during the pregnancy she has taken no thought or done no
preparation for the child that is coming forth.

The Lord went on to say that he has tried to help with the preparation for
this child coming forth but many have allowed it for bit and then became to
uncomfortable and told him to stop or told him the way they wanted it to be
done or what was needed. You have decided that you know best what this child
needs and what you want to do with the child but have made no eternal
preparations for it. The preparation begins in your heart. Knowing how to
carry and birth that which is of Spirit not of yourself. Knowing how fast or
slow this Spiritual baby will grow. How to nestle it, how to cuddle it.
Knowing what to feed this baby. It is nothing made from human hands. It is
not buildings. It cannot be contained, boxed, housed. For it is not of you.
It is of my Spirit alone.

What is it that you are doing to feed My Spirit that is within you? How do
you house it? How do you box it in?  The child you are birthing...the child
I am birthing upon the face of the earth has been birthed in the Spirit.
Will only survive if My Spirit has full control over it. Learn how to
recognize the Spirit. Learn how to abide in my Spirit. Learn how to lay down
your life that my Spirit may rise up and give birth through you.

It is my Spirit that I long to unleash on the face of the earth. It is my
Spirit that will bring conviction and healing in large amounts. You are the
vessels of my Spirit. Prepare your hearts, seperate your hearts. Seperate
your flesh from the Spirit. All the buildings and work you might do mean
nothing if my Spirit is not there.  It is not by might now power or anything
else but by my Spirit saith the Lord.

Bring forth the child I have placed within you but learn from me how to
house it, how to feed it.  Learn of My Spirit. Learn of me. Walk in me ,
Walk in my Spirit and live!