Dear Partner,

I would like to share with you something that the Lord said to me recently. During a seeking time when I was able to shut myself away from the world for awhile and spend time alone with Him, the Lord said,

"Be very careful not to set any limits nor any boundaries upon My will, My desire, nor My ability to bless you and to use you. Set no limits and set no boundaries upon what I will do for you and what I will do through you, says the Lord. Your mind, your thinking is still too small to even begin to set limits upon Me. What you think presently as being "upper" things and "high" things, I consider them to be miniscule. I consider them to be small things. I consider them to be almost beneath contempt. Word everything you say without limits. Word everything you say so that I can do exceedingly, abundantly above all that you ask or think. Ask big, son, ask largely. Seek Me for I am a big God! I am able to do exceedingly, abundantly beyond all that you ask or think. I have already provided things for you that you know not even of. At this moment you do not even know to ask so be sure that you set no limits upon Me, says the Lord. Set no boundaries upon the Boundless One! Set no limits upon the Limitless One! Word everything in such a way that it keeps your mind thinking upward, thinking larger, thinking bigger. Always be sure that your words do not limit Me, says the Lord."

"Let Me have My way with you. Again I say, abandon yourself upon the arms of My Spirit. Let Him so transform your mind and transform your thinking that your thinking becomes the same as the Spirit of My Son within you who cries "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto You. Thy will be done." That thinking will become your thinking. It will be as natural to you as breathing is now. The limits are going to come off of your thinking. The limits are going to come off of your imaginations as you yield yourself to My Spirit."

"Oh, I said seek not the world but seek Me. The world will bring you into bondage. I set you free. Everything that the world claims as its own belongs to Me, says the Lord. Regardless of the enemy's claim, I give it to whom I will! Those that serve Me. Those that I can trust. Those who have superimposed My Spirit upon their will. Those that I can trust it with. I give it to whom I will! It is mine, says the Lord. The silver and the gold is mine! The world and all they that dwell therein, and everything in it is mine, says the Lord. And I give it to whom I will!"

"I scoff at your enemies! I scoff at these weak ones who stand about and say, "Perhaps we can attack here and perhaps we can attack there." I scoff at them! I laugh in derision that they would even think that their strategy would not be known by My Spirit Who would reveal it to you ahead of time. Who are these defeated ones whose thinking is so black and darkened that they think not that I see everything? Who think not that I will reveal everything unto you? Who are those that would come against My servant? Stay close to My Spirit and you will walk in the light of day. You will not stumble and you will not be walking in darkness. I will reveal everything ... EVERYTHING that the enemy plans against you and you will easily walk around it, says the Lord."

"Presently, son, all I need from you is a yielded vessel. All I need is for you to present yourself to My Spirit and to My Word. The transforming will be done by My Spirit. The anointing shall be done by My Spirit. The filling shall be done by My Spirit. He will fill you with My plan, My thinking, My anointing, My power. The angels shall be posted as watchmen and guards about you. I only need your vessel, son. Present yourself to Me. Present yourself to Me and let My Spirit fill the vessel. He will change and transform that vessel. Present yourself to Me. Present yourself to Me. Present yourself to Me and let My Spirit do His work."

"I am instructing you this day to have boundless hope in Me. Hope without limits. Vision! Vision! See afar off, son. Be as Abraham who could not count the stars for their multitude. He could not count the grains of sand on the seashore for their multitude. Have boundless hope, son. I am instructing you to have boundless hope in Me. I desire to so expand your mind and to so expand even your capacity to ask beyond all bounds that you presently operate in. Have boundless hope in Me, says the Lord. For there are no limits to My love. There are no limits to My power. There are no limits to My faith. There are no limits to My resources. There are no limits to what I can do. There are no limits to what I desire to do. Oh, exceedingly, abundantly above all that you could ask or think...that is who I AM to you! I am instructing you to have hope without boundaries. Boundless hope, says the Lord."

I am convinced that the Lord is speaking this same message to the entire body of Christ. The cares of this world sometimes weigh us down until we forget the words of our Lord Jesus,

Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

May we all yield our time to the Holy Spirit through the meditation of the Word and prayer so that the God of our salvation may once again fill us with "Boundless Hope."

Thank you for your gift to GCM. Sue and I love you and appreciate you. We thank God for your generous and giving heart. God bless you!

Your friend and co-laborer,

Gary Carpenter

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