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         Do not judge your usefulness by your title or your position, for I do not judge this way. Do not desire positions of great leadership, for if you desire them and don't receive them, you will be disappointed. Desire My will for your life and seek this: Seek to learn and to grow. Seek to draw nigh to Me. Seek to pass through the desert places, that you may come out as a man or woman of understanding, as a man or woman of depth, as a man or woman anointed of My Spirit. For I too spent time alone in the desert places, and I too went through the testings and purgings.
         When you find yourself in the desert place, do not fear; do not give up. For it is there that I am able to mold you and to form you. It is there that the decisions are made as to the kind of vessel you will become. It is there you come to know Me, to trust Me, and to love Me. It is there I come to know your fiber, what you are made of, and thus I can mold you into the vessel that I have chosen.
         So in the times of despair and the times of deep discouragement and the times when you look about you and say, "What is happening? How could this be?" and when you feel like saying, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"--know that in those times I am not only there with you, but that I am watching and waiting. It is in those times that you make the decision of how greatly I can use all that has been poured into you.
         Trust Me in the desert places. Just trust Me. Just hang on. Just lay down your own ways, your own desires, and say, "Not my will, but Thine be done." At that point, I know that I can trust you with the blessings, with the anointing and with the power of My Spirit that I will pour out to you in the days to come.
         So be patient, and know that I am He that forms you. I am the Potter, you are the vessel. Give Me the moldable clay of your life that I may make you into the useful vessel of My choosing, of our choosing. For the vessel you become is a vessel of My choice and of your choice together (ML #3052).



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