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

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                         My Words


My words are words of power and of life.  My words are words of encouragement.  
The enemy desires for your heart to be heavy and full of fear.  I desire 
for your joy to be full and for you to be full of faith.  And the personal 
and corporate words that I release through My servants, the prophets, are 
to be words of life and encouragement.  My words are words of liberty and 
the setting free of those who Satan holds in captivity.  My words are words 
of hope and of a future.

There are types of false prophesy running amuck in the church today, and 
this is a cause of sorrow and anger for Me.  There are those who speak 
and release words of condemnation because they speak from a critical and 
judgmental spirit.  They release words that have no hope, that offer no 
road of repentance and restitution. That is not My way, for I came that all 
men might have life, that they might believe and repent and be saved.  I
have died that man may have life. Therefore, I do not speak words of 
destruction and condemnation and judgment over whole nations -- I speak 
words of invitation and words of life, desiring that they might turn to 
Me and be saved.

There is not a nation on the face of this earth that is so holy before Me 
to the point where there is no room for correction or rebuke.  But this is 
not yet the season where man has been sealed in his sin, the mark of the 
anti-christ has not been taken and very few are reprobate in their evil 
ways and unable to repent.  So the words that I release to nations are 
words of invitation and words of hope.  For I desire that all men would 
turn from their sin and run to Me that they may be saved.  I offer them a 
hope and a future.

There is another type of false prophesy going forth that says that man
may live for themselves and their own plans, that they can seek material
gain and wealth and comfort, so long as they do right and attend My
house of worship.  Child of Mine, this is fallacy.  I require all of you
and I require a place of absolute lordship in your life.  I expect you to 
obey Me because you love Me.  I expect you to follow the example I laid 
forth when I walked on this earth as a man -- even as I saw what the Father 
was doing and did only that, so you are to see what I am doing and do only 
that. You are to lay down your agendas and your priorities to embrace and 
obey Mine.  I must be Lord and you must have a heart to obey Me and you 
must do whatever I tell you to do.  If you are called by My name, you are
to be My servant.

I do not release the prophetic to promise you a bigger house or a more 
expensive car, I release the prophetic to build you up in kingdom things, 
to cause your faith to grow, to make your heart pure before Me.  A form of 
materialism has crept into the prophetic, but that is not of Me.  It is 
true that I am a rewarder of My faithful servants.  There are times when 
My rewards are material. But the rewards I most often release are joy and 
victory and power and anointing upon a person's life, peace in their hearts 
and favor with others.  I desire to bring you to maturity in Me, not to 
make you fat and comfortable and lazy in this life.

Do not misunderstand, there are those servants of Mine that I prosper 
materially for My kingdom purposes -- ones that I have called to be 
apostles and pastors and evangelists in the business world, ones that I
have prospered materially that they might be positioned to be My witnesses.  
These ones are not distracted by the material gain, rather they are focused 
on My kingdom purposes and they look to Me and they take their direction 
from Me.  I am not saying that you cannot be a Christian and be successful 
by the world's standards. Rather I am saying that your motivations must
be kingdom motivations.  You must seek the true riches of My kingdom and 
not the material riches of this kingdom.  Your heart and motivation must be 
to serve and obey Me, not to increase your material possessions and your 
place of prominence and status among men.

So, you ask, what type of words am I releasing in this day and season?  I am 
releasing words of life.  I am releasing words that build up My body that 
each member may come to the full stature of maturity in Me.  I am releasing 
words of hope and words of comfort.  I am releasing words of vision.  I 
desire that each of My servants knows the vision and calling that I have 
placed before them that they might walk in it.  I am prophetically calling 
forth giftings that I have placed within My servants.  And I am releasing 
anointings upon them that they might do My kingdom business and accomplish 
My kingdom purposes.  I am calling My people to deeper levels of commitment 
and intimacy with Me, and I am empowering them to walk in it.  I am 
releasing words of healing and words of restoration.  I am releasing words 
of edification and exhortation and comfort to men, that the church might 
be built up and that the lost might be saved.