A Word from the Lord to Build Up, Encourage and Comfort

Walking Forward
Submitted by Jane Larsen 

The time of transition has not been easy.  The process has been hard.  Many of you have walked in valleys, some have trudged wearily up mountains, others have hidden alone in caves, waiting to be transformed, waiting in your lonely and hard place.

I tell you that this was for a reason, for there was much you carried with you when you began the journey that you did not need.  You were weighted down, you were unable to focus for so great were the cares you carried with you.  Bit by bit you have dropped them along the way.  Bit by bit you have shed the old and made room for the new. The further you traveled, the closer you came to Me and all I have for you.

I know this has been a long and hard season, where you have often felt you were hanging on to air.  I know that you lifted your tearful face to Me in the place of silence that you were in, and wondered why heaven was still, but I am never still.  I was transforming you; I was allowing you to let go of those things that held you down, that imprisoned you, so you could come through, refined and pure, perfect and strong, ready to walk the new walk, without the burdens of the world.

Now you will walk straight, now you will walk tall.  See, there is no luggage on your shoulders, no burdens in your hands, now you are free.   Now you are free.  There are places I will send you, the chosen ones, the ones that have been in the valleys, on the mountains and in the caves.  There are places that call.  You will speak to others who do not know Me, who are in places of sadness and pain. You will carry hope, not despair.  There are those who are ill, who see no way to be cured, who you will touch in My name, and who will find freedom from their ailments.  Now you carry healing.

There are those who are prisoners to sin, who think that is the only way, and now you will go to them and carry the truth, for you know the truth. You have met with the truth and the truth has set you free.  Go; set others free in My name.  There are now no chains holding you back.

Look.  Look at the you that you have become.  The love that now burns in your heart, the strength that abides in you, the wisdom that your lonely journey has given you.  Go, feed those that hunger, give to those who thirst, give to them from the brook of living water.

I have called you from the mountaintops, I have brought you from the deserts, I have carried you through the valleys and I have set you in a new place. Brush the dust from your cloak and walk on, lightened and healed, restored and refined and do not look back, for behind you is what you no longer need and before you is all that you will ever want.