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Dear Friends,

Waiting rooms? Dark Corridors? They're both places for powerful and life-changing encounters with the Lord. . .

Dark Corridors to Glory

Prophetic Word Given to Jane Williams

"Can you see how I am helping you be right with Me? How I am ensuring your growth and development? Can you not see that each time you are lost in darkness I will lead you out? I will ensure that you come out and that you come out with greater understanding and wisdom.

Oh, the dark corridors are wonderful places actually. You think they are unpleasant because you can see nothing - you are left alone to your own thoughts and to wait upon Me. I want you to be able to recognize such places as grand opportunities. For never will I leave you there longer than necessary to truly benefit your soul. Never will I delay My coming out of cruelness or neglect. Never will I forget you in that place for My eyes are turned toward the dark corridors. My eyes never leave that place. That is the place of My testing and though you would sense not My presence, it is even there in power and strength.

Where was I when Jesus died? Had I left and gone on vacation? No, My eyes witnessed the scene and even what happened while His body laid in the grave. I witnessed it with tears, for though I knew I would bring Him through and bring Him through with great prize, I did not stand aloof and unmoved. No, I wept and longed to cradle Him in My arms. Yet My will to resist outweighed My emotion because I knew of the necessity of the place and of the greatness of the prize for endurance.

It is so with you. How can I resist you? How can I resist your pleas? It is because I know the necessity of the process and the greatness of the intended outcome.

Have you been hurt or offended by someone? Has someone in your family misunderstood or falsely accused you? Have situations you've prayed about seemed to get worse? Take heart. You are in the dark corridor of great opportunity. You are in the place of great spiritual conquest and advancement.

Do you know that little can be won for My kingdom without passing through that way? Little can be accomplished without the cross of Christ.

Stand in your dark corridors in peace and great hope. They are passageways to a larger place; they are halls to vast rooms. Do you want to enter the ballroom of deep joy? Do you want to run into the arena of a vast and glorious church? Then accept the dark corridor with great faith for it always leads to a better place. It is designed to take you to a higher level of righteousness, peace, and joy. It is built to lead you to the throne of the Lord God.

Be careful not to take any of the side passages, for there are many doors in this dark place. You can grope along with your own thoughts and find the knobs to bitterness and offense. You can feel your way to the turn of anger and selfish pride. But resist these things and extend your hand to Me. For I will lead you straight down the middle and get you through more quickly than any other.

You can hasten our steps with praise. You can quicken the pace with thanksgiving. Declare My greatness is in this dark place and you might find lights going on.

There is good reason for every dark corridor in your life. They are designed to take you places you could never get to otherwise. They are designed to lead you to the fullness of Christ and make you a more accurate reflection of Him.

Call the dark place what it is. It is opportunity and enlargement and grace. It is a dimension of fellowship with Me that you must not live without. For there in that dark place you will learn things that you could learn nowhere else, and in that place you will become adept leaders to guide others through in days ahead.

So why do I allow offense and delay? Why do I connect glorious rooms with dark halls? Because you were never meant to be secure in any place other than hand-in-hand with Me. I am to be your only security. You learn that in the dark places and it heightens your joy when you enter the light. 'I need only you, Lord, and you're giving me all this too?'

Oh, delight to hold My hand. Delight to fellowship with only Me and I will so expand your capacity that you will be prepared for untold increase. You will be prepared to contain greater glory and spill forth the effects of great grace.

Call the dark places what they are - temporary passageways to great glory. See Me as Lord even there for they are surely the paths to the throne room of God. They are surely the routes to My eternal purposes. There is no more exciting place to be if you are aware of the sign over the exit door. See if you can make it out even now. Is it 'the glory of God' or 'the righteousness of Christ?' Perhaps it is 'peace and joy such as you have never known.' Here, let Me direct your gaze so that you will not be discouraged. Let Me grasp your hand tighter and take you along. For I delight to guide you from glory to glory and am ever beside you all the way."