This word is submitted by Jane Larsen (jlarsen65@hotmail.com)

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                         Clean Out Your House

I had a vision of rooms in a house.  The corners of the rooms were full 
of boxes and things, all piled on one another that made the rooms seem 
darker and smaller than they should have been.  I was also aware of a 
lot of dust.  As I looked as these messy rooms the Lord immediately 
laid in me:

Clean out your house.  A new season is upon you and this is time to clean 
out your house.  You are to make way for the new and clear out the old.

Why are you holding on to the things that are of the past?  Why are you 
storing up what you do not need?  Do you not know yet that these things 
are worthless to you?  How can you receive from me when your house is 
already full?  Make room.  Clear out your house and make room. Allow the 
light to come in and make the dark places bright.  I tell you, you cannot 
move forward into a new season while you are storing up all the things of 
the past.

Be diligent and start.  Now is the time.  Now is the time to get your 
house in order.  Start and do not delay for I tell you that a new 
season is upon you and will not delay.  It will come in a flash, in a 
moment and it will be here, and you need to be ready, you need to be 
prepared and not weighed down with the old.  Make space for the new.  
Clear out the old that festers and takes room that it should not have.  
Open the boxes that store the past and let them go, for a new time is 
upon you and I will see your house clean, I will see your heart ready 
to receive all I have for you.

Let us sit together and talk, you and I. Let Me tell you that I know the 
times have been hard and I know the season you have been in has been 
tiring. I know the thoughts that were in your head, for I formed you and 
I knew you before there was time.  I know the despair you have been 
clutching and I know the weight you have carried. I know all these things 
and now I am telling you, let go.  Let go of the old season and be ready, 
stand prepared, for the new season.  New will follow old, so let go of the 
old and make way for the new.  I tell you these things so that you are 
prepared, so that you are ready to walk forward, clothed in peace, 
strengthened with my love, sure of my word.  I have not forgotten you 
and I have never left you.

You cannot see when you stand in the dust of yesterday.  You will not see 
today dawn.  Clean out your house and start now.  The new season is coming 
and it will not delay.