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songs and fervent prayers, will touch their hearts. Let church members
educate themselves to do this work.—
Testimonies for the Church
6:276
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A Witness to the Power of Christianity
Christ has placed upon His church a sacred charge, the fulfilling
of which calls for self-denial at every step. When those who believe
in Him are seen lifting the cross and bearing it after Him in the path
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of self-denial, willingly doing all in their power to bring blessing to
those for whom Christ died, witness will be borne to the power of
Christianity; and in the hearts of many, now unbelievers, will spring
up faith in Him who gave His life to save a guilty world from eternal
ruin.—
Letter 43, 1903
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Need of Greater Faith
As believers in Christ we need greater faith. We need to be more
fervent in prayer. Many wonder why their prayers are so lifeless, their
faith so feeble and wavering, their Christian experience so dark and
uncertain. “Have we not fasted,” they say, “and walked mournfully
before the Lord of hosts?” In the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah Christ
has shown how this condition of things may be changed. He says: “Is
not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that
ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that
thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the
naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine
own flesh?”
Verses 6, 7
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for the faint-hearted, doubting, trembling soul. Let the sorrowful ones,
who walk mournfully before the Lord, arise and help someone who
needs help.
Every church is in need of the controlling power of the Holy Spirit;
and now is the time to pray for it. But in all God’s work for man He
plans that man shall co-operate with Him. To this end the Lord calls
upon the church to have a higher piety, a more just sense of duty, a
clearer realization of their obligations to their Creator. He calls upon
them to be a pure, sanctified, working people. And the Christian