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Imagine this: What if you gave up your life to live in God's temple, never leaving but worshipping night and day with fasting and praying for 84 years! Sounds crazy, right? Well, someone actually did this: Anna. After losing her husband of only seven years, she spent the next 84 years worshipping God without ceasing. She is only discussed briefly in Luke, yet her faithfulness made the written word!

Let's look at Anna's life. Suppose she was fourteen years old when she married. She would have been 105 years old. Yet she was still fasting and praying night and day! Satan tries to convince us that God won't use us. He may cite things like age or lack of abilities or failures that we've had. But just like Anna, there are many scriptural examples of the Lord using those who would be considered unusable by worldly standards.

Moses was eighty years old before he began to fulfill God's plan for his life, and he worked right up until he was 120 years old. Abraham was in his nineties before he had the son God had promised him.

Gideon was another one who looked unusable. He was hiding from the Midianites when an angel of God appeared and told him he was a mighty man of valor (Judges 6:11-12). He couldn't believe it at first and had to have the Lord confirm it three times.

Truly, "...God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty..." (1 Cor. 1:27-28).

If you feel foolish or weak, you qualify, so don't let your weaknesses and insecurities prevent the Lord from using you. What do you need to be faithful in like Anna today?