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Prayer in the Night Season, December 2
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast
tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not
transgress.
Psalm 17:3
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The past night [December 1] was to me one of great experience. I seemed
to be in a meeting where there were a large number assembled—many believers
and some unbelievers. On one occasion the company was divided into several
smaller companies. I had a special burden and had addressed my remarks to some
few under the temptations of the enemy. They were entertaining ideas that were
not sound but would lead them into the denying of the truth. This present time in
which we live is a period of great temptation to give heed to erroneous sentiments
and suggestions of seducing spirits, and to link up with evil angels and present
the same as present truth. There was a deep interest manifested in searching the
Scriptures.
I had a special burden of prayer, and the peril of souls seemed to me so great
upon my soul. I poured out the burden of my soul unto the Lord. I was pleading
most earnestly for the Lord to break the power of the enemy and set us free, to
let the minds of the beloved ones who are tempted go free, and to let the precious
truth shine forth amid the moral darkness. I presented my prayer to the Lord
that He would come forth to the help of His people and magnify the truth, that
those who were uninformed would not be deceived in this period of great peril.
I presented before the Lord our great need of special help to be granted to His
people in accordance with the consistency of His attributes to work in our behalf
and answer our prayers to glorify His own name.
I was reaching higher and still higher, pleading with God to comply with our
earnest supplications and let His truth at this time appear in all its dignity and
beauty and saving grace. As He had often made known His special love and His
special power and made the truth appear in its strength and its authority, to make
known again His clear and sacred truth unmixed with chaff, ... I pleaded, and I
felt that the Lord had pledged Himself. Victory came in, and I awoke crying aloud
in joy that the Lord had manifested to us His grace, His truth, and His salvation. I
learned from the members of my family that my praying was aloud in my sleep.
The precious goodness and love of God to me gave me comfort and strength
and joy. I felt that I had a new source of hope and encouragement that deliverance
would be wrought for souls.... The Word of God will be established forever and
forever.—
Manuscript 177, December 2, 1903
, “Diary—December, 1903.”
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