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Selected Messages Book 2
There should be an intelligent knowledge of how to come to God
in reverence and Godly fear with devotional love. There is a growing
lack of reverence for our Maker, a growing disregard of His greatness
and His majesty. But God is speaking to us in these last days. We
hear His voice in the storm, in the rolling thunder. We hear of the
calamities He permits in the earthquakes, the breaking forth of waters,
and the destructive elements sweeping all before them. We hear of
ships going down in the tempestuous ocean. God speaks to families
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who have refused to recognize Him, sometimes in the whirlwind and
storm, sometimes face to face as He talked with Moses. Again He
whispers His love to the little trusting child and to the gray-haired sire
in his dotage. And earthly wisdom has a wisdom as it beholds the
unseen.
When the still small voice which succeeds the whirlwind and the
tempest that moves the rocks out of position, is heard, let all cover
their face, for God is very near. Let them hide themselves in Jesus
Christ; for He is their hiding place. The cleft in the rock is hidden with
His own pierced hand while the humble seeker waits in bowed attitude
to hear what saith the Lord unto His servant.—
Manuscript 84b, 1897
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No Place Inappropriate for Prayer
There is no time or place in which it is inappropriate to offer up a
petition to God In the crowds of the street, in the midst of a business
engagement, we may send up a petition to God, and plead for divine
guidance, as did Nehemiah when he made his request before King
Artaxerxes—
Steps to Christ, 99
, (Pocket ed.).
We may speak with Jesus as we walk by the way, and He says, I am
at thy right hand. We may commune with God in our hearts; we may
walk in companionship with Christ. When engaged in our daily labor,
we may breathe out our heart’s desire, inaudible to any human ear;
but that word cannot die away into silence, nor can it be lost. Nothing
can drown the soul’s desire. It rises above the din of the street, above
the noise of machinery. It is God to whom we are speaking, and our
prayer is heard.—
Gospel Workers, 258
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It is not always necessary to bow upon your knees in order to
pray. Cultivate the habit of talking with the Saviour when you are