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Him. “Be still, and know that I am God” (
Psalm 46:10
).—
Education,
260
(1903).
Healing of Spiritual Troubles—This world is a vast lazar house,
but Christ came to heal the sick, to proclaim deliverance to the captives
of Satan. He was in Himself health and strength. He imparted His life
to the sick, the afflicted, those possessed of demons. He turned away
none who came to receive His healing power. He knew that those who
petitioned Him for help had brought disease upon themselves; yet He
did not refuse to heal them. And when virtue from Christ entered into
these poor souls, they were convicted of sin, and many were healed of
their spiritual disease as well as of their physical maladies. The gospel
still possesses the same power, and why should we not today witness
the same results?—
The Desire of Ages, 823
(1898).
Humans, the Hands of Angels—Human agencies are the hands
of heavenly instrumentalities, for heavenly angels employ human
hands in practical ministry. Human agencies as hand helpers are
to work out the knowledge and use the facilities of heavenly beings.
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By uniting with these powers that are omnipotent, we are benefited by
their higher education and experience. Thus as we become partakers
of the divine nature and separate selfishness from our lives, special
talents for helping one another are granted us. This is Heaven’s way
of administering saving power.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:456,
457
(1900).
The Human Part and the Divine Part in Times of Conflict—
Always the Lord gives the human agent his work. Here is the divine
and the human cooperation. There is the man working in obedience to
divine light given. If Saul had said, Lord, I am not at all inclined to
follow Your specified directions to work out my own salvation, then
should the Lord have let ten times the light shine upon Saul, it would
have been useless.
It is man’s work to cooperate with the divine. And it is the very
hardest, sternest conflict which comes with the purpose and hour of
great resolve and decision of the human to incline the will and way
to God’s will and God’s way, relying upon the gracious influences
which accompanied him all his life long. The man must do the work
of inclining—“For it is God which worketh in you [us] both to will
and to do” (
Philippians 2:13
). The character will determine the nature
of the resolve and the action. The doing is not in accordance with the