This word is submitted by Don Froess [dfroess@telus.net]

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                       Hidden Treasure

My beloved, it is time to make your way down to the threshing floor and
to offer yourself up as a holy and living sacrifice, as an acceptable
act of worship unto the Lord. For if you will come and remain there, I
will spread over you the corner of My garments and cover your nakedness.
There I will swear by Myself that you are Mine, and we will be in
covenant with each other.

This is the year of My favor, for I have come to bring you out from
under the yoke of slavery, by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your
testimony. For you are no longer a slave to unrighteousness, but My Son
whom can call out to Me with Abba Father. Therefore My beloved cast off
everything which hinders and the sin that so easily entangles you from
running the race with perseverance.

My beloved, just as I gave the Israelites the best part of the land, the
territory of Goshen in the land of Egypt and provided for them. So I
give you the choice part of the land to glean from. Do not go and attempt
to harvest from another's field that is not your own. For just as you
are My treasured possession, so is the kingdom of heaven as a treasure
hidden in a field and in you, for you are God's field.

My beloved I am your Kinsmen-Redeemer and there is no one nearer to you,
(for I am a friend that sticks closer than a brother) to marry you.
Therefore set yourself apart and consecrate yourself to Me for the
wedding of the Lamb to His bride. Cleanse and rid yourself of the slave
woman and her son, for you are no longer under the law but under grace
and sin shall not be your master because I have redeemed you from the
law of sin and death.

Choose to stand firm in your faith and do not let yourself be burdened
again with the yoke of slavery, for you belong to Christ and are an heir
to the promise.

My beloved it is for freedom that Christ came to set you free and if He
sets you free, you will be free indeed.