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         I have created you with a great capacity and need, not only to love but to be loved, and with not only a tender heart that goes out to others, but also with one that needs to be cared for. I am well pleased with your love and your giving.
         Don't be disappointed or discouraged, but continue to use this gift of affection that the Enemy would try to defeat and to pluck down. The gift of affection has great power to tear down spiritual walls! The gift of affection can help the spirits of two people touch and can bring warmth to them. The gift of affection is an instrument of love which the Devil hates, which is why he fights it so, and why he fights you, because it is such a powerful weapon.
         The gift of affection requires honesty, humility and openness, that the hearts be right, or else they cannot hug and touch and love each other freely. The gift of affection causes your hearts to be knit. But if there is bitterness or a grudge, it is very difficult to be affectionate.
         The Enemy fights affection in order to kill My love, to stop My love from flowing, to bring coldness and hardness to My Family. But you must continue to speak words of kindness, to hold another's hand, to put your arms around another, for the very act of doing so defeats the Enemy and lets My Spirit flow freely from one body and heart to another. Acts of affection are like the metal that acts as a conductor to let My Spirit flow from one person to another. But when there is no contact and no touching, it stops and is cut off and can go no further.
         So resist the Enemy! Defeat him and his purposes with loving affection, for this is the very heart of the Family--your love and your affection one to another.
         It is Me. It is not you, for love comes from Me. I am Love. Where there is an act of love, there I am present. For My Spirit is love, and you cannot love without Me or My Spirit. Where there is affection, there am I amongst you.
         So let Me flow! Give Me to another by giving affection. Let nothing quench it.



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