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    What’s the Use?
    What’s the Use?
    What’s the Use?
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    What’s the Use?

    By Anne Kaestner

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    Have you ever felt as if the world was closing in on you? Do you feel squeezed by the pressures and stress of life? “What’s The Use?” is a personal testimony focusing on these very issues. It deals with the hopelessness of feeling like you are trying to swim against the tide. Life throws us all some curves at times. But when they come with such frequency and unyielding ferocity that we feel incapable of dealing with it, a definite decision has to be made. We ask the question, “God, why are you doing this to me? Are you trying to tell me something?” Often the answer is yes, as this author found out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnne Kaestner
    Release dateMar 26, 2014
    ISBN9781310326615
    What’s the Use?
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    Anne Kaestner

    Anne Kaestner is co-founder of Bible Believers Fellowship, Inc. with her husband Eric. She is the Vice President and Executive Director. Anne also functions as Secretary of the Corporation, and is involved in all major Executive decisions. She attends all Board of Directors meetings, as well as any initial and/or important meetings with professionals hired by the Corporation, including legal, banking, and accounting services. Anne runs the office and is also in charge of personnel. Aside from all of this, she has pioneered our efforts to purchase, at a drastically reduced price, the numerous Christian role model books that we distribute free of charge in correctional facilities nationwide. Anne is in charge of spiritual and doctrinal matters, as well as most written communication. Except for an occasional inmate testimony, she does all of the writing for our publication “The Good News Letter,” most of our mass produced literature, and most of our ebooks. She is in charge of all counseling, the majority of which she handles personally. She is actively involved in researching information that will assist us with our newsletter articles and similar literature, including our “Answers To Your Questions” series. Besides this, she personally reads any and all books and screens all videos that we purchase for distribution. And she was the original liaison between the video suppliers and this ministry. She arranged for the BBFI imprint in our role model books and worked to ensure that we receive copyright clearance on all the Christian videos that we distribute to prisons and jails.

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      What’s the Use? - Anne Kaestner

      What’s The Use?

      By Anne Kaestner

      Co-Founder of Bible Believers Fellowship, Inc.

      Copyright Page

      Copyright 2014 by Anne Kaestner.

      Published by Bible Believers Fellowship, Inc. at Smashwords.

      Cover design by Eric Kaestner with suggestions from Anne Kaestner.

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this ebook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this ebook and did not purchase it, please go to www.smashwords.com or your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Scripture quotations marked (KJV) are from the King James Bible.

      EPUB ISBN – 9781310326615

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      Introduction

      1 - Memories of Pain

      2 - The Little Lost Lamb

      3 - Finding the Answer

      About Anne Kaestner

      Other ebooks by Anne Kaestner

      Connect with Anne Kaestner

      Dedication

      All books are dedicated to the Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in so many ways.

      Introduction

      This short book focuses on the emotions most of us feel at times when the world seems too overwhelming to bare. Have you ever felt as if the world was closing in on you? Do you feel squeezed by the pressures and stress of life?

      What’s The Use? is a personal testimony focusing on these very issues. It deals with the hopelessness of feeling like you are trying to swim against the tide. Life throws us all some curves at times. But when they come with such frequency and unyielding ferocity that we feel incapable of dealing with it, a definite decision has to be made. We ask the question, God, why are you doing this to me? Are you trying to tell me something? Often the answer is yes, as this author found out.

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      Chapter One

      Memories of Pain

      Joanna was a waitress I had a chance to speak to today. I’d gotten to the lunch counter in the store at the mall late and she had time to chat. She told me about a childhood so poor and miserable that she could not wait to leave home and get married. Once married she was to find out that life was not getting any better. Tears came to her eyes as she began to remember the hurt she felt as her husband flaunted his infidelity in front of her. It was a story I had heard too often before. Linda, a grocery store clerk, had a different story to tell. She had been born with dyslexia and only a fifth grade reading capacity. She felt sure she’d never be able to get a good job. What’s the use? she asked me in frustration.

      It wasn’t all that long ago that I’d felt that frustration myself. I’d come to the Lord and made my commitment to serve Him as a little girl but through my teen years I’d felt lonely and isolated. I

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