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Selected Messages Book 1
God calls for willing service—a service inspired by the love of
Jesus in the heart. God is never satisfied with halfhearted, selfish
service. He requires the whole heart, the undivided affections, and a
complete faith and trust in His power to save from sin
God will honor and uphold every truehearted, earnest soul who is
seeking to walk before Him in the perfection of the grace of Christ.
The Lord Jesus will never leave nor forsake one humble, trembling
soul. Shall we believe that God will work in our hearts? that if we
allow Him to do so, He will make us pure and holy, by His rich grace
qualifying us to be laborers together with Him? Can we with keen,
sanctified perception appreciate the strength of the promises of God,
and appropriate them to our individual selves, not because we are
worthy, but because Christ is worthy, not because we are righteous,
but because by living faith we claim the righteousness of Christ in our
behalf?—
Manuscript 125, 1901
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