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         Those who are the most broken make the best followers, because their brokenness makes them more yielded, more willing to be yielded, and their yieldedness makes them more tender. These more broken hearts are quicker to look to Me. They see that they are nothing in themselves, so they are more dependent on Me.
         Some have learned to be broken, for they have made a habit in their lives of looking to My Word and letting it speak to their heart, letting it change their heart, letting it mold their life. When you have a hungry spirit, a hungry heart that looks to My Word and is sensitive to My Word, this gives you a broken spirit so that you can more easily stay in the center of My will and under My anointing and blessing.
         Like the parable of falling on the rock or being crushed by the rock, those who fall on Me and are broken by Me and My Words, because they want Me and desire Me, will find the path of life much easier. The Word that they have stored up gives them strength and a positive outlook on life in every situation.
         The Word gives you the faith to be an overcomer and to glory in your trials, to where you see your breakings as blessings and privileges. You recognize them as My hand in your life; you see them as My love and not as chastisements. You hardly see them as breakings at all, but they have the same effect on your heart. This is the effect of the result of My Word in your life--it makes your breakings easy to take.
         But in the case of those who follow afar off or stray or are errant, My rock must fall on them in the form of breakings to help make them into what they should be--the fine powder of My diamonds of dust. This is much harder, for it is not voluntary, but it is still My love. You can either fall on Me to be broken, because of your love for Me and wanting to stay in My highest will; or I can fall on you and break you, to keep you in My will if you stray, because of My love for you. So breakings will come, but those who stay in My will, seeking Me for My will, need less breakings, and the ones they do receive are cushioned because of the positive outlook they have and the Word they have to help them.



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