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Date: Mar 24, 2003

This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                                Look To Me

My words over you are words of life and words of hope.  The enemy of 
your souls is trying to discourage you and hold you down.  He is trying 
to put your focus and attention on all the negative and difficult things
and circumstances surrounding you.  He wants you to focus on the problems
because that makes them seem larger and more overwhelming.  And that 
drains the life out of My people and breathes hopelessness and discouragement.

Child of Mine, look to Me as your solution. Do not focus solely on the 
problems that surround you. That makes the problems seem bigger and more
overwhelming.  Instead, focus on Me and on My faithfulness and on My power.
Remind yourself of things I have already done for you in the past.  Remind
yourself of how I have come through for others in similar circumstances.
Pull out My word and read it and remind yourself of how I have met and 
delivered the saints of old.

Was I not with Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego in the burning fiery 
furnace?  Did I not protect and deliver them? Did I not keep their hair
from being singed and did I not keep their clothes from being scorched
by the flames?  Did I not cause My name to be glorified through them as
I stood with them?  Did I not cause the kings judgment against them to
be reversed?  Do you think I have become weak and incapable since that 
day?  I say to you, I am the Lord and I do not change over time. I am still
able to protect and deliver My own!

Was I not with Daniel in the lion's den, to deliver him?  Was I not with
Joseph in prison?  Was I not with Moses and the children of Israel when
the armies of Egypt pursued them to destroy them?  Was I not with 
Joshua and his army when he had to fight to possess the promised land?
Was I not with David when Saul sought to destroy him?  Did I not deliver
him and set him into his destiny?  Was I not with Elijah to deliver him 
from the hand of Jezebel and from the hand of King Ahab who wished to take 
his life?  Was I not with Peter when he was in prison?  Did I not send
My angel to deliver him from out of the midst of his captors and send him
to the very house where the believers were gathered together, praying for
his deliverance?  Was I not with Paul in the shipwreck, to spare his life
and the lives of those with him?

Child of Mine, I will be with you in your difficulty, as I was with them
in theirs.  I do not keep you from experiencing adversity, but I am with 
you in it and I bring My presence into your situations and turn them 
around for My glory and for your good.  So look to Me and trust in Me.
My plans and purposes for you are good.  And I am capable of bringing them
to pass.