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righteousness. The intensity of desire represented by hungering and
thirsting is a pledge that the coveted supply will be given.
Just as soon as we realize our inability to do God’s work and submit
to be guided by His wisdom, the Lord can work with us. If we will
empty the soul of self, He will supply all our necessities.
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Place your mind and will where the Holy Spirit can reach for them,
for He will not work through another man’s mind and conscience to
reach yours. With earnest prayer for wisdom, make the work of God
your study. Take counsel of sanctified reason, surrendered wholly to
God.
Look unto Jesus in simplicity and faith. Gaze upon Jesus until the
spirit faints under the excess of light. We do not half pray. We do not
half believe. “Ask, and it shall be given you.”
Luke 11:9
. Pray, believe,
strengthen one another. Pray as you never before prayed that the Lord
will lay His hand upon you, that you may be able to comprehend
the length and breadth and depth and height, and to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge, that you may be filled with all the
fullness of God.
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The fact that we are called upon to endure trial proves that the Lord
Jesus sees in us something very precious, which He desires to develop.
If He saw in us nothing whereby He might glorify His name He would
not spend time in refining us. We do not take special pains in pruning
brambles. Christ does not cast worthless stones into His furnace. It is
valuable ore that He tests.
The blacksmith puts the iron and steel into the fire that he may
know what manner of metal they are. The Lord allows His chosen
ones to be placed in the furnace of affliction in order that He may see
what temper they are of and whether He can mold and fashion them
for His work.
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