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When those to whom God has entrusted responsibilities as leaders
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fear and tremble before Him because of the responsibility of the work,
when they feel their own unworthiness and seek the Lord in humility,
when they purify themselves from all that is displeasing to Him, when
they plead with Him until they know that they have forgiveness and
peace, then God will manifest Himself through them. Then the work
will go forward with power.
Fellow laborers, we must have Jesus, the precious Jesus, abiding
in our own hearts much more fully if we are to meet with success in
presenting Him to the people. We are in great need of the heavenly
influence, God’s Holy Spirit, to give power and efficiency to our work.
We need to open the heart to Christ. We need much firmer faith and
more fervent devotion. We need to die to self, and in mind and heart to
cherish an adoring love for our Saviour. When we will seek the Lord
with all the heart we shall find Him, and our hearts will be all aglow
with His love. Self will sink into insignificance, and Jesus will be all
and in all to the soul.
Christ presents to us who are athirst the water of life, that we may
drink freely; when we do this we have Christ within us as a well of
water springing up into everlasting life. Then our words are full of
moisture. We are prepared to water others.
We must draw nigh to God. We must be laborers together with
Him, else weakness and mistakes will be seen in all we undertake. If
it were left to us to manage the interests of the cause of God in our
own way, we would not have reason to expect much; but if self is hid
in Christ, all our work will be wrought in God. Let us have faith in
God at every step. While we realize our own weakness, let us not be
faithless, but believing.
If we will take God at His word, we shall see of His salvation.
The gospel that we present to save perishing souls must be the very
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gospel that saves our own souls. We must receive the word of God.
We must eat the word, live the word; it is the flesh and blood of the
Son of God. We must eat His flesh and drink His blood—receive by
faith His spiritual attributes.
We must receive light and blessing, that we may have something
to impart. It is the privilege of every worker first to talk with God in
the secret place of prayer and then to talk with the people as God’s
mouthpiece. Men and women who commune with God, who have