This word is submitted by Jane Larsen (jlarsen65@hotmail.com)

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                        Standing at the Gate


I have placed you at the gate.  I have placed you to block the attack of the
enemy.  I have placed you to stand in prayer at the gate.  Warrior prayer.
The enemy will attack as a raging lion and you are placed as guard.  You use
a mighty weapon.  You use my name.  You use the power of prayer.

Your prayers bring forth healing for the sick.  They bring forth peace in
places of war.  They stop the attacks of the enemy.  They bring deliverance
to those in bondage.  They bring power.  They open the way for many who are
lost.  Each prayer you pray brings a crop.  Each word you cry out to me
brings answers, brings movement from heaven.  Warring angels are around you.
  Power is released from my throne.  The enemy is slayed.  Stand in your
place of prayer.  Stand in  my name and call upon me.  Continue with the
good work I have called you to do.

I know you have been weary.  I know you have held on to me in the face of
burning arrows.  I know you have kept your eyes upon me and turned away from
the taunts of the enemy.  I know all this, and I know, too, the tears you
have shed as you stand, faithful warrior, guarding the gate, and your tears
have moved mountains.  They were not shed in vain.  Your seeds will bear
fruit.  Much fruit.

Persevere.  As you persist, an abundance of blessings will come.  Healings
will come in my name.  The lost shall be saved in my name.  The Nations
shall bow before me, for you are asking it, you are believing it, in my
name.

You are not alone in this war.  Would I leave you alone to fend of the
enemy?  I am with you.  I am by you.  It is even my hand that upholds you.

I perceive your thoughts from afar.  I knew your name before you ever were.
I gazed upon you in my secret place, and I called you mine.  I set you
apart.  I put you in a safe place.  I put you by my side and held your hand
from the beginning.  So great is my love for you that it has no end.  You
are infinitely precious in my eyes.

Let the battle rage and have no fear, for the weapon of my word is in your
mouth, and I stand by your side.  No darkness can separate us.  No plot of
man, no strikes of the enemy.  Nothing can stand between my love for you and
survive.  I deliver.  I heal.  I answer your prayers and send the rain.  I
do it, because you stand guard at the gate.  You ask and believe.