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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
I dreamed that, as I was speaking, the power of God fell upon
me in a most remarkable manner, and I was deprived of all strength,
yet I had no vision. I thought that my husband stood up before the
people and exclaimed: “This is the wonderful power of God. He
has made the testimonies a powerful means of reaching souls, and
He will work yet more mightily through them than He has hitherto
done. Who will be on the Lord’s side?”
I dreamed that quite a number instantly sprang to their feet and
responded to the call. Others sat sullen, some manifested scorn and
derision, and a few seemed wholly unmoved. One stood by my side
and said: “God has raised you up and has given you words to speak
to the people and to reach hearts as He has given to no other one. He
has shaped your testimonies to meet cases that are in need of help.
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You must be unmoved by scorn, derision, reproach, and censure. In
order to be God’s special instrument, you should lean to no one, but
hang upon Him alone, and, like the clinging vine, let your tendrils
entwine about Him. He will make you a means through which to
communicate His light to the people. You must daily gather strength
from God in order to be fortified, that your surroundings may not
dim or eclipse the light that He has permitted to shine upon His
people through you. It is Satan’s special object to prevent this light
from coming to the people of God, who so greatly need it amid the
perils of these last days.
“Your success is in your simplicity. As soon as you depart from
this, and fashion your testimony to meet the minds of any, your
power is gone. Almost everything in this age is glossed and unreal.
The world abounds in testimonies given to please and charm for the
moment, and to exalt self. Your testimony is of a different character.
It is to come down to the minutiae of life, keeping the feeble faith
from dying, and pressing home upon believers the necessity of
shining as lights in the world.
“God has given you your testimony, to set before the backslider
and the sinner his true condition and the immense loss he is sus-
taining by continuing a life of sin. God has impressed this upon
you by opening it before your vision as He has to no other one now
living, and according to the light He has given you will He hold you
responsible. ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith