Written January 26, 1988

Yea, it is a day of new Beginnings. It is a day that I would have you look at your walk with me as never before. For I would say, indeed, the honeymoon is over. We have experienced the thrills and the excitement of the days of the honeymoon. It has been good. But now it is time to go on in a deeper relationship. Now is the time for you to forsake your own ways and go with me totally as you never have before. Have I not said in my word - you are a new creature in Christ; old things passed away - behold all things become new. There is a new work of my Spirit today. Our first love was the immersion - being wholly immersed in my Spirit. Being wholly immersed in my love. Much has been cut away of the old man. It was done. You could sense that it was my love - that way you could endure what I was doing in your lives.

Today, my Spirit is a consuming fire. When the fire gets too hot - in the natural - you back away. You want to run. Do not run from me - allow me to refine you - by the heat that is applied through the Refiner’s fire.

For this is our new love - this is my new move. Even as you are able to resist bowing down to the idols of the world as the three Hebrew boys did in Babylon.

I will be with you in the fire. I will comfort you. I will sustain you.

Know the truth - the truth will make you free.