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Advice for the Leaders, August 25
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready
mind; neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples
to the flock.
1 Peter 5:2, 3
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I am instructed to say to our ministering brethren, Let the messages that
come from your lips be charged with the power of the Spirit of God. If ever
there was a time when we needed the special guidance of the Holy Spirit,
it is now. We need a thorough consecration. It is fully time that we gave to
the world a demonstration of the power of God in our own lives and in our
ministry.
The Lord desires to see the work of proclaiming the third angel’s message
carried forward with increasing efficiency. As He has worked in all ages to
give victories to His people, so in this age He longs to carry to a triumphant
fulfillment His purposes for His church. He bids His believing saints to ad-
vance unitedly, going from strength to greater strength, from faith to increased
assurance and confidence in the truth and righteousness of His cause.
We are to stand firm as a rock to the principles of the Word of God,
remembering that God is with us to give us strength to meet each new ex-
perience. Let us ever maintain in our lives the principles of righteousness,
that we may go forward from strength to strength in the name of the Lord.
We are to hold as very sacred the faith that has been substantiated by the
instruction and approval of the Spirit of God from our earliest experience
until the present time. We are to cherish as very precious the work that the
Lord has been carrying forward through His command-keeping people, and
which, through the power of His grace, will grow stronger and more efficient
as time advances.
The enemy is seeking to becloud the discernment of God’s people, and to
weaken their efficiency, but if they will labor as the Spirit of God shall direct,
He will open doors of opportunity before them for the work of building up
the old waste places. Their experience will be one of constant growth, until
the Lord shall descend from heaven with power and great glory to set His seal
of final triumph upon His faithful ones.—
The Review and Herald, June 12,
1913
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