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commandment-keeping people, and which, through the power of His
grace, will grow stronger and more efficient as time advances. The
enemy is seeking to becloud the discernment of God’s people, and to
weaken their efficiency; but if they will labor as the Spirit of God shall
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direct, He will open doors of opportunity before them for the work
of building up the old waste places. Their experience will be one of
constant growth, until the Lord shall descend from heaven with power
and great glory to set His seal of final triumph upon His faithful ones.
“The work that lies before us is one that will put to the stretch
every power of the human being. It will call for the exercise of strong
faith and constant vigilance. At times the difficulties that we shall
meet will be most disheartening. The very greatness of the task will
appall us. And yet, with God’s help, His servants will finally triumph.
‘Wherefore,’ my brethren, ‘I desire that ye faint not’ because of the
trying experiences that are before you. Jesus will be with you; He will
go before you by His Holy Spirit, preparing the way; and He will be
your helper in every emergency.
“‘For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ
may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded
in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth,
and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness
of God.
“‘Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto
Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world
without end. Amen.’”
The General Conference Bulletin, 1913
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