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Section 1—Healing Power and Its Source
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There is life in the seed, there is power in the soil; but unless
an infinite power is exercised day and night, the seed will yield no
returns. The showers of rain must be sent to give moisture to the
thirsty fields, the sun must impart heat, electricity must be conveyed
to the buried seed. The life which the Creator has implanted, He
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alone can call forth. Every seed grows, every plant develops, by the
power of God.—C.O.L. 63.
Life of God in Nature
The Lord has given His life to the trees and vines of His creation.
His word can increase or decrease the fruit of the land.
If men would open their understanding to discern the relation
between nature and nature’s God, faithful acknowledgments of the
Creator’s power would be heard. Without the life of God, nature
would die. His creative works are dependent on Him. He bestows
life-giving properties on all that nature produces. We are to regard
the trees laden with fruit as the gift of God, just as much as though
He placed the fruit in our hands.—
Manuscript 114, 1899.
God Feeding Earth’s Millions
In feeding the five thousand, Jesus lifts the veil from the world
of nature, and reveals the power that is constantly exercised for our
good. In the production of earth’s harvests, God is working a miracle
every day. Through natural agencies the same work is accomplished
that was wrought in the feeding of the multitude. Men prepare the
soil and sow the seed, but it is the life from God that causes the seed
to germinate. It is God’s rain and air and sunshine that cause it to
put forth “first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the
ear.” It is God who is every day feeding millions from earth’s harvest
fields.—D.A. 367.
Kept in Activity
The beating heart, the throbbing pulse, every nerve and muscle
in the living organism, are kept in order and activity by the power of
an infinite God. “Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not,
they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory