This word is submitted by Tammie Gelis (graced2serve@hotmail.com)

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                         Tugboats & the Pull

While I was sitting down by the water this morning the Lord spoke to me 
through a tug boat.  As I watched this tugboat pulling the barge full of 
wood I began to think about the things that pull us in life or seem to 
pull us. How often we feel everything that pulls us is bad and evil. We 
feel that when we don't feel like we are in control of something or an 
area in our lives.  But I heard the Lord saying to me that not everything 
that feels like a pull on your life is evil or wrong or bad. The Lord 
often uses things/vessels/situations to pull us along in life to our 
destiny.  I kept hearing the Lord say:

"Know that I am able to control and am in control of all things, including 
that which is pulling you to a place even if you don't know exactly where 
you are going. But trust Me that I do have a plan and a destiny for you and 
that I will choose the vessels that will pull you to where you are to be 
now or next.  You will feel uncomfortable at times if you look at the chain 
that holds you to what is pulling you or directing your path.  But know 
that I am able to hold things together until the destination is reached. 
I will even send people/things in your path that you will be knitted to and
bonded to -- to help pull you through and keep you on course.  Don't always 
fight the pull.  Instead find out if it is I that am allowing the pulling 
and then rest in Me.  

However, do not put your trust in the person or situation that is pulling 
you because the situations can change and the vehicles will change but 
trust only in the One Who is in  charge of all things and can do all 
things. Allow Me to pull you into the destiny and to the places I would 
have you be. Don't fight against it but rest in Me and come along for the 
ride."