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The Ministry of Healing
Consecration; Trust
When we are humble and contrite we stand where God can and
will manifest Himself to us. He is well pleased when we urge past
mercies and blessings as a reason why He should bestow on us
greater blessings. He will more than fulfill the expectations of those
who trust fully in Him. The Lord Jesus knows just what His children
need, how much divine power we will appropriate for the blessing
of humanity; and He bestows upon us all that we will employ in
blessing others and ennobling our own souls.
We must have less trust in what we ourselves can do, and more
trust in what the Lord can do for and through us. You are not engaged
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in your own work; you are doing the work of God. Surrender
your will and way to Him. Make not a single reserve, not a single
compromise with self. Know what it is to be free in Christ.
The mere hearing of sermons Sabbath after Sabbath, the reading
of the Bible through and through, or the explanation of it verse by
verse, will not benefit us or those who hear us, unless we bring the
truths of the Bible into our individual experience. The understanding,
the will, the affections, must be yielded to the control of the word of
God. Then through the work of the Holy Spirit the precepts of the
word will become the principles of the life.
As you ask the Lord to help you, honor your Saviour by believing
that you do receive His blessing. All power, all wisdom, are at our
command. We have only to ask.
Walk continually in the light of God. Meditate day and night
upon His character. Then you will see His beauty and rejoice in His
goodness. Your heart will glow with a sense of His love. You will
be uplifted as if borne by everlasting arms. With the power and light
that God imparts, you can comprehend more and accomplish more
than you ever before deemed possible.
“Abide in Me”
Christ bids us: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot
bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except
ye abide in Me.... He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.... If ye