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Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today.

Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Thursday, my friends.

I love that we get to share this time together. Thank you for inviting me into your life.

The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is, you're the one. God wants to use you.

He wants to use you.

He has found a way to use you for his good works.

And girl, he has been trying to get you to see what he's doing here. What he's doing is taking

the very thing you struggled with in your past to be used for good in the future. What? You think

you can't be used? You think you're insignificant with nothing to offer? You think you've

been disqualified from goodness? You're wrong. One very wise preacher once said, there is no reason why

if you've gone very far in sin, you should not go very far in usefulness.

And I wrote that in the margins of my Bible. The further you've been on the wrong path, the further

God can take you on the right path. The more you personally know what doesn't work,

the more you fully trust what does. This is why God used Paul in such powerful ways. Paul had gone

really far down the wrong path. He had passionately persecuted all followers of

Christ trying to kill them. I mean, really, you can't be any more wrong than that, right? I bet you've

been wrong, but have you been that wrong? And yet this man, Paul, the one who had spent

years being really wrong, is the one God chose to write the majority of the New Testament in our

Bible. He is the one charged with the mission of bringing God's word.

If God can find a way to use Paul, don't you think he can find a way to use you?

Paul writes in 1 Timothy 1, verse 15 and 16, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I am the worst of them all.

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