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         The cares of this life and its many burdens and worries have pulled you away from your intimate fellowship with Me. The Devil has plagued you with many doubts, much condemnation and fear of failure, and this has clouded your ability to look to Me and have faith that I can hear your prayers and want to answer you and bless you and love you. But I'm telling you now that these doubts and this condemnation and depression and lack of faith and discouragement are all of the Enemy. He wants to destroy you, but I want to save you and deliver you and lift you up. I want to give you a new start. I want to make you a testimony and a witness of My love.
         I take the weak things and the foolish things, the broken things and imperfect things, to use as My vessels of love that I might be glorified. Through the different breakings you have experienced over the years, you have become a gentle, compassionate vessel, one who understands, one who feels, one who empathizes, one who knows what it's like to ache and be in need, one who knows the pangs of loneliness and desperation.
         You see, even these dark days can work together for good if you will just put yourself into the hands of the Shepherd. If you will just yield yourself as soft, moldable clay in the hands of the Potter, then He can make from these broken pieces a better vessel--maybe not as beautiful, maybe not as brilliant or as spectacular, but more useful. I can pick up all the broken pieces of your life--your broken dreams, your heartaches, your disappointments--and with My hands of love I can cause it all to work together to form My beautiful creation.



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