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         (Dad:) I know the loneliness of leadership is not always easy, but it's the making of a man or a woman. God is molding you and shaping you into one of His good shepherds. Many of you young folks, bellwethers and young shepherds are having to learn this. The crown so beauteous to those who behold it is ever so heavy to those who wear it! Every great man and woman of God has felt the same. But one man or woman alone with God can turn the world right-side up!
         I know it seems very lonely at times, not to mention all the other unseen labor that goes along with it--having to see the problems, the troubles, the complications, the difficulties, and how hard it is sometimes to know what to do. But God needs you! His work can't go on without you and those like you who are willing to take the stand and be available--available for anything that God wants to do!
         I'm proud of you, and God is too, that you are willing to be made into the woman of God that He needs you to be in these Last Days. The Lord's making you, and other young people like you, into His Endtime leaders.
         I'm very proud of you for being willing. We need more soldiers like you who are willing to have a broken heart that Jesus can use to love others, to sympathize with them, to encourage them, to soothe their troubled souls, to heal their hurts and kiss away their tears. Thank you, Honey, for being willing to let Jesus love others through you.
         All these things you're experiencing are bearing wonderful fruit in your life, too! You're getting more desperate, you're depending on Him more, you're praying more, and that's the best thing you could possibly do.



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