FJWL_02:87
         (To a couple facing battles with their handicapped children:) If you would be useful to Me, you must follow My path and the way I lead you, and not your own thoughts, feelings, desires, or way of seeing things. For I am truly leading you and guiding you in the way that I would have you to go. Despise not your youth, and despise not the afflictions that I have sent your way. For I have made you young and strong and able to carry these afflictions.
         Be not weary in well doing, for in due season you shall reap, if you faint not. Lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees. Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way.
         Have I not said unto you that the lame shall take the prey, and that there are advantages in handicaps? The light affliction that I have put upon you and your children is nothing to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in you, if you will follow the stream of My will and be what I would have you to be--not what you are, and not what you desire to be, but what I would have you to be. Then I can mightily use you and make you a beacon and an encouragement to many.
         A life of service for Me is not easy. Many need encouragement. Many need to see a sample of overcomers and of strength of spirit and fighting for the right to be My shepherds and My leaders in a wicked world that is so devoid of My Spirit. I have many sheep that need to see the true spirit flowing--that of love, giving and caring.
         So think not as men think, but think as I think, and see things as I see them. For the true spirit is in meekness, brokenness, humility and willingness--willingness to be broken and to be what I would have you to be.
         Fear not the opinions of men or what others may think, for that doesn't matter. My true children and the true believers will think the right way, the way that I want them to think, and they will get what I want them to get from all that is happening in their lives.
         So be happy, be inspired, and be fulfilled with the calling that I have given you. Seek not something for yourself, but only seek Me.



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