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Uproot Every Seed of Doubt, February 13
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great
recompence of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.... We are not
of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to
the saving of the soul.
Hebrews 10:35-39
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I saw that we are now in the shaking time. Satan is working with all
his power to wrest souls from the hand of Christ and cause them to trample
underfoot the Son of God....
Character is being developed. Angels of God are weighing moral worth.
God is testing and proving His people. These words were presented to
me by the angel: “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil
heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another
daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end
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God is displeased that any of His people who have known the power
of His grace should talk their doubts, and by thus doing make themselves
a channel for Satan to transmit his suggestions to other minds. A seed of
unbelief and evil sown is not readily rooted up. Satan nourishes it every
hour, and it flourishes and becomes strong. A good seed sown needs to
be nourished, watered, and tenderly cared for; because every poisonous
influence is thrown about it to hinder its growth and cause it to die. Satan’s
efforts are more powerful now than ever before, for he knows that his time
to deceive is short....
God’s people will be sifted, even as corn is sifted in a sieve, until all the
chaff is separated from the pure kernels of grain. We are to look to Christ
for an example and imitate the humble pattern....
I was shown the saints’ reward, the immortal inheritance. Then I was
shown how much God’s people had endured for the truth’s sake, and that
they would count heaven cheap enough. They reckoned that the sufferings
of this present time were not worthy to be compared with the glory which
should be revealed in them. The people of God in these last days will be
tried. But soon their last trial will come, and then they will receive the gift
of eternal life.
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