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Date: Jan 14, 2004
This word is submitted by Deb Okereke (healingfire@shaw.ca)
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Disappointments into Destiny
Though they were genuine, don't focus on the disappointments. Instead
focus on how each one of them had seeds of destiny within and something
had to die so that new life could come forth. The tears you shed were not
in vain for they cleansed your heart of defilement and they touched My
heart. It wasn't My intention to cause you pain dear one, but to prepare
you for a great work. Through the disappointments you encountered I have
been fashioning you and molding you into My image.
Surely you have learned much of My ways, surely you have been afforded
opportunities to count the cost, for the cost to you personally has been
very great. But yet through it all you have continued to choose Me,
continued to walk in My footsteps, even when the path has been darkened to
your understanding or filled with shadows. You have done well and I am
proud of you.
Now focus not on what you have lost but what you have gained -- not on
those things and people which have been taken but upon those that remain.
Not on opportunities squandered but on those which lie ahead. Nurture the
seeds of destiny I have placed in you. Let Me breathe life into them.
They shall come forth at their appointed time. Examine the disappointments
only to discern the seeds of destiny contained within. Let Me brood over
them and impart life to them for the furtherance of My Kingdom.