This word is submitted by Joan Brown (jbrown@tassie.net.au)

Maturity
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I will not fail you or forsake you, or leave you as orphans.

Watch - Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which I will accomplish for you today.

Stand! Steady! Steady! Keep focused!

Do not judge by what your eyes can see.

Look to Me - I will keep your attitude right in this time of testing. For a time of testing it is. Remember the spies - when they gave way and indulged their feelings and thoughts, they could not enter in. Only those who hold fast, only those who keep a good confession enter in.

Yes, a new wave is breaking. I show you these things in the Spirit before they happen. Maturity sees, accepts and receives the reality of My Word. Maturity is THEN required to hold fast until you see every hindrance swallowed up in My purposes.

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Watching our confession in the time of waiting is part of God's maturing process we each have to experience. We can be so close to the fulfillment of God's promises and yet fail to partake of the rewards just as the royal officer on whom the King of Israel leaned during the siege of Samaria. His negative confession in the time of waiting precluded him from obtaining the provision he needed.

2 Kings 7.2.
"Behold you shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it."

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Maturity needs wisdom. Maturity is the ability to trust in God's Wisdom. Maturity is to walk in the fear of the Lord. Maturity is able to wait with a good confession.

Let us press on to maturity.

JOAN BROWN