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Testimonies for the Church Volume 9
and still higher before the people. We need to remember that Christ
is always at our right hand as we proclaim liberty to the captives
and deal the bread of life to hungry souls. When we keep before our
minds the urgency and importance of our work, the salvation of God
will be revealed in a remarkable manner.
God help us to put on the armor and to act as if we were in
earnest, as if the souls of men and women were worth saving. Let
us seek a new conversion. We need the presence of the Holy Spirit
of God with us, that our hearts may be softened and that we may not
bring a harsh spirit into the work. I pray that the Holy Spirit may
take full possession of our hearts. Let us act like children of God
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who are looking to Him for counsel, ready to work out His plans
wherever presented. God will be glorified by such a people, and
those who witness our zeal will say: Amen and amen.
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beauti-
ful garments, O Jerusalem, the Holy City.... How beautiful upon
the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that
publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth
salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen
shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for
they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the Lord hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem.
The Lord hath made bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.”
Isaiah 52:1-10
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