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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
God in many places be made difficult and burdensome because the
necessary means is withheld. Let not those who are struggling to
build up important enterprises, great and small, become disheartened
because we are slow to unite in placing these enterprises in a position
to do efficient service. Let all our people arise and see what they can
do. Let them show that there is unity and strength among Seventh-
day Adventists.
Conditions of Acceptable Service
As a people we must come into a sacred nearness to God. We
need the light of heaven to shine into our hearts and into the chambers
of our mind; we need the wisdom that God alone can give, if we
carry the message to these cities with success. Let our churches
everywhere come into line. Let none who have pledged themselves
by baptism to live for the service and glory of God take back their
pledge. There is a world to be saved; let this thought urge us on to
greater sacrifices and more earnest labor for those who are out of
the way.
When you follow out the principles of the word of God, your
influence will be of value to any church, any organization. You
are to come up to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord
against the mighty. All frivolous words, all lightness and trifling, are
enticements of the enemy to deprive you of spiritual strength. Brace
yourselves against this evil, in the name of the God of Israel. If you
will humble yourselves before God, He will give you a message
for those in the highways and the hedges, and for those in foreign
countries who need your help. Trim your lamps, and keep them
burning, that wherever you may go you may reveal in speech and
action precious rays of light.
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If we will give ourselves for service to the Lord, He will instruct
us what to do. If we will come into close relation with God, He
will work with us. Let us not become so absorbed in self and self-
interests that we shall forget those who are climbing the ladder of
Christian experience and who need our help. We must stand ready
to use our God-given capabilities in the work of the Lord, ready to
speak words in season and out of season—words that will help and
bless.