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The Spirit Quickeneth, January 27
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63
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Only the Holy Spirit of God can quicken the perceptive faculties
Only to those who wait humbly upon God, who watch for His guidance
and grace, is the Spirit given. This promised blessing, claimed by faith,
brings all other blessings in its train. It is given according to the riches of
the grace of Christ, and He is ready to supply every soul according to the
capacity to receive.
The impartation of the Spirit is the impartation of the life of Christ.
Those only who are thus taught of God, those only who possess the inward
working of the Spirit, and in whose life the Christ-life is manifested, can
stand as true representatives of the Saviour.
God takes men as they are, and educates them for His service, if they
will yield themselves to Him. The Spirit of God, received into the soul,
quickens all its faculties. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the
mind that is devoted unreservedly to God, develops harmoniously, and is
strengthened to comprehend and fulfil the requirements of God. The weak,
vacillating character becomes changed to one of strength and steadfastness.
Continual devotion establishes so close a relation between Jesus and His
disciples that the Christian becomes like his Master in character. He has
clearer, broader views. His discernment is more penetrative, his judgment
better balanced. So quickened is he by the life-giving power of the Sun of
Righteousness that he is enabled to bear much fruit to the glory of God
The believers will be of one heart and of one mind, and the Lord
will make His Word powerful in the earth. New cities and villages and
territories will be entered; the church will arise and shine, because her
light has come, for the glory of the Lord is risen upon her.... If the Holy
Spirit dwells in us, ... we shall lift up Jesus
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Letter 49, 1896
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Gospel Workers, 285, 286
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77
The Review and Herald Extra, December 23, 1890
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