This word is submitted by Betty Heimbach (bjheimbach@isp.com)

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             Out With the Old and In With the New

This is a time and a season for stripping and cleansing.  You have sought 
Me, asking to be purified and stripped of all that is out of sync with My 
character.  Now is the time for the stripping.

I am stripping you of a natural and worldly love and filling you with My 
divine agape love for others.  If you will lay aside your ideas about love, 
I will fill you with My love and give you a new attitude concerning love.  
I'm calling you to walk in love as never before, truly preferring others 
above yourself.  Learn to listen more and talk less.  Listen to what people 
are saying, then listen for what My Spirit will reveal to you about the 
person and his words.  If you will humbly listen I will reveal truths to 
you that will enable you to walk in love with purity, regardless of how 
others treat you, regardless of the words that they speak.

You are being stripped of pride in self, pride in accomplishment, pride in 
what you have learned through all your study, in order to be dressed with 
humility and a servant's robe.   You cannot walk in humility and pride--one 
excludes the other.  They are totally incompatible. Peacock feathers and 
aprons don't go together.

I am stripping away all your words, so that you may walk in My Word.  I'm 
stripping away all your "goodness"--your self-effort at righteousness, so 
that you may wear My purity and holiness.  It is an easy thing.  My robes 
of purity and holiness are comfortable and easy to wear.

I'm stripping away all your carnal, fleshly judgments so that you may walk 
in My grace.  Every time you see someone behaving in a way that you believe 
is unpleasing to Me, ask Me.  Ask Me for a glimpse of their heart from My 
viewpoint.  Look at things and people through My eyes and it will change 
your heart and your behavior; it will change your path and your walk.   I 
am stripping away every critical thought, every hint of self-justification 
and ego, so that you may walk in My love: My unconditional, enduring, loyal, 
healing love.