24 For I will gather you from all the nations and bring you back to your own land. 25 Then I shall pour pure water over you and you shall be made clean—cleansed from the defilement of all your idols. 26 I shall give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I shall remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I shall put my spirit within you and move you to follow my decrees and keep my laws. 28 You will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you shall be my people and I will be your God. 29 I will free you from all your uncleanness.
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You worry about your children, about those far away from Me, those who, despite all the hard lessons I have given them, still choose to wander far away from the flock. You pray for them with a heavy heart, with tears, with a great burden pressing on your soul. Be at peace, ---- my own. I know how much you grieve over the ones who refuse to heed the voice of the Shepherd. Do not worry, surrender them to Me and have this confidence: once you surrender them, have faith that I will seek and save the lost. I will restore. I will wash clean. I will make of them a new creation. I will feed and nourish. I will strengthen, and I will make whole once more. Do not be afraid, ---- my own, nothing pleases Me more than when you bring all your needs to Me. Confide all your fears to Me. Tell Me all your joys. Come to Me as a little child approaches its mother with trust and with confidence that it will not be rejected or turned away. Come to Me. Lean on Me. Rest in Me as a weaned child on its mother's bosom and be still. I AM God. Nothing is too difficult for Me. I will work wonders, and you will be awestruck when you see all that I have done. All who have been baptized and grafted into My Body will experience the grace of this free gift of faith, which will be rekindled and reignited no matter how long it has been dormant or even snuffed out. Have faith. Believe, and you will receive an answer to all your prayers and so much more. For I AM a God who gives in abundance, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. Begin even now to praise and give thanks for the wonders I AM about to do.
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