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         Remember that there are cycles that you pass through. When you are in the lowest part of the cycle, that is when you must cry out to Me and hang on to Me and trust Me the most, because all around you looks like tests and trials, like defeat and discouragement. That is when you must look to Me, and I will guide you and direct you to bring you out of that portion of the cycle, and into the victorious portion.
         When all is dark and you cannot see, when all seems to be defeat, or when there are problems that you are facing that you do not see the answers to, just seek Me and trust Me, for I will show you. I promise you this: If you call out to Me, I will answer, and I will show you great and mighty things that you know not!
         So do not look at these setbacks, these tests, these difficulties as defeat; look at them as stepping stones to victory, stepping stones to progress. If you didn't have some of these tests and trials, you would become complacent, you would not strive to move forward, you would not try to solve the problems, you would not desperately seek Me for the solutions, for the answers. But I have allowed things to happen around you to move you.
         So don't be fearful or worried, but rather be challenged, and know beyond the shadow of a doubt that My answers are there, and that as you seek Me, I will pull you out of that portion of the cycle and into the other. But if you seek Me not, if you do not take up the challenge, if you do not cry out to Me, if you do not look to Me for the answer, if you do not desperately cry out to Me, then I cannot bring you through the cycle. Because this is the dynamics of the cycle--that you must cry out and call out and seek Me and face the challenge, so that it brings forth the victory (ML #3071).



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