I have had a revelation today! This evening, at the end of the service, we were all praying up front and I prayed quietly to the Lord, " Lord, strip away everything that is not of you." I have prayed this prayer many times before. Suddenly, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that this is what the Lord has been trying to do in me. I have been fighting the Lord on it and becoming angry and bitter at him for taking certain things, or not allowing me to have certain desires in my heart. Yet, I have asked him to do this very thing. He, like the loving Father that he is, is trying to do this work in me because I have asked him to, and because he wants to make me into a better person, into the woman he has created me to be! I confessed this fault, this sin, in my heart and immediately felt cleaner and lighter in my heart which confirmed that I had truly heard the right thing from the Lord! I praise God for this so much because this is the vision I needed. I NOW see and understand! Praise God!