When I told Abraham that I would fulfill My promise to him and give him descendants that were as many as the start of the sky in multitude – he didn’t look at his own age and his own body, but he was strong in faith, knowing that what I had promised to him I was able to perform. (Romans 4:19) So I know that sometimes you feel that you are getting old – that you are starting to reach the end of your usefulness to Me. But this isn’t true! I will continue to use you until you have fulfilled your purpose here on earth. Trust Me that what I have promised to you I am able to perform!
Many of My great prophets and leaders didn’t reach their full usefulness to Me until they old – look at Moses. He was 80 when he confronted Pharoah and then led My children out of Egypt. One reason that many of My great men and women of the past were old before their ministries really took off was that it took all those years of smashing and breaking to bring them to the point where they finally trusted in Me fully. They had reached the point where their own strength, abilities, image, importance, plans and programs didn’t matter to them anymore. They just wanted to let Me be everything in them.
They got the point that, however sincere they were, they just weren’t going to make it by themselves. They couldn’t do it with a little help from Me; they couldn’t make it by letting Me do most of it with some help from them. They reached the point where they knew they needed to turn everything over to Me and let Me take full control.