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The Coming Bitterness In Our Success?

Revelation 10:8-10 8 Then the voice from heaven called to me again: "Go and take the unrolled scroll from the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." 9 So I approached him and asked him to give me the little scroll. "Yes, take it and eat it," he said. "At first it will taste like honey, but when you swallow it, it will make your stomach sour!" 10 So I took the little scroll from the hands of the angel, and I ate it! It was sweet in my mouth, but it made my stomach sour. *** Sometimes the Lord may plant a seed in our spirit the likeness of which we're not able to describe. It can grow if we're submissive to wait on Him and it only begins to take form as we're patient and faithful to allow it. If we're truly faithful and submissive to what the Lord is doing, we don't attempt to give it form. We merely suffer in patience to allow it to be revealed in His time and take shape by His revelation. Our labor comes in

Children Of Unparalleled Promise

As I waited on the Spirit of the Lord this morning preparing my heart for fellowship, there came a word to my heart and mind and it was this: "Celebrate as the children of unparalleled promise the One whose gifts cannot be equalled in spirit and in truth. By this will I know the ones who belong to Me!" My spirit bore witness to its author - it was my master. His words spoke to me of the Lord's desire for His children to identify themselves with Him in sincerity by recognizing the power and value of their identity because of His grace and then worshipping Him from the depth of that true gratitude and awe that comes from the full realization of the truth.   It's a long held personal conviction of mine that unless I can prostrate myself in spirit, crucifying the fears of my flesh, without fear of, or regard for the opinion of others before the Lord, that my worship lacks the pure humility before Him to submit myself to Him without condition and to recogni