Chapter 109—For Each Day’s Need
My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by
Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19
.
All blessings are bestowed upon those who have a vital connection with
Jesus Christ. Jesus calls them to Himself not simply to refresh us with His
grace and presence for a few hours, and then to send us forth from His light
to walk apart from Him in sadness and gloom. No, no. He tells us that we
must abide with Him and He with us.... Trust in Him continually, and doubt
not His love. He knows all our weakness and that which we need. He will
give us grace sufficient for our day.
Those only who are constantly receiving fresh supplies of grace, will
have power proportionate to their daily need and their ability to use that
power. Instead of looking forward to some future time when, through a
special endowment of spiritual power, they will receive a miraculous fitting
up for soul-winning, they are yielding themselves daily to God, that He
may make them vessels meet for His use. Daily they are improving the
opportunities for service that lie within their reach. Daily they are witnessing
for the Master wherever they may be, whether in some humble sphere of
labor in the home, or in a public field of usefulness.
To the consecrated worker there is wonderful consolation in the
knowledge that even Christ during His life on earth sought His Father daily
for fresh supplies of needed grace; and from this communion with God He
went forth to strengthen and bless others....
Every worker who follows the example of Christ will be prepared to
receive and use the power that God has promised to His church for the
ripening of earth’s harvest. Morning by morning, as the heralds of the gospel
kneel before the Lord and renew their vows of consecration to Him, He will
grant them the presence of His Spirit, with its reviving, sanctifying power.
As they go forth to the day’s duties, they have the assurance that the unseen
agency of the Holy Spirit enables them to be “laborers together with God” (
1
Corinthians 3:9
).
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