It is a time of resolving the issues of the heart

I am at once comforted in heart, that I am doing what I should to move along this path we are walking together. There has always been this part of me that wonders what I should be thinking, doing, saying — all of the activities to prove my walk with You to myself. It’s always been an issue yet seems to have lessened with Your continual encouragement just to remain close to You.

Your words draw away my doubt, release my heart from seeking to do something rather than in just being me, and gives me the freedom to come into Your presence without fear, without judgment — and increases my desire to be with You each day no matter what might be going on in my heart, whether thought or deed. In this place I am released into a freedom of trust: one where I know for certainty that great possibilities will be manifested, where my heart will leap for joy at Your revelation, where my desires will be met.

I am beginning to feel a contentment to allow You to release into my life whatever is Your desire, at whatever moment, with a full confidence that both are exactly as they should be — without my wondering if they will appear.

I understand your need for comfort in this place. I see your heart is suffering loss: in family, in things long held. Yet you have found a place of faith in Me that even in this, even in the issues of the mind and body, you still have settled within to be with Me. You have trusted that I will lead even when you have seen little in return for that trust, at least that which you have been expecting.

It is a time of resolving the issues of the heart, that it might stand firm in Me for the events that are yet to come. As they appear you will understand and will have the strength and fortitude to measure them truthfully, with awareness in the truth of them, understanding of their intent, able to deal with them effectively and with power.

My voice will guide always if sought by you. It has been proven to you many times that regardless of any issue I am always here to speak with you. That certainty is being established with you at each encounter. Therefore continue to remain in peace — with Me you are always in the proper place, moving in the proper direction, receiving all you would need in encouragement to walk with Me. Never fear under any circumstance when you are with Me.

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I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have perfect peace. In the world you have tribulation, distress, and suffering; but be confident, undaunted, filled with joy — I have overcome the world.

— John 16.33