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has a tender care for the beings whom He has so loved as to give His
dearest Beloved to save. He will deal with every wrongdoer.
“For he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of His eye.”
Zechariah
2:8
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“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall
bring it to pass.... He shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,
and thy judgment as the noonday.”
Psalm 37:5, 6
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“The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times
of trouble. And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee:
for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.”
Psalm 9:9, 10
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The compassion that God manifests toward us, He bids us manifest
toward others. Let the impulsive, the self-sufficient, the revengeful,
behold the meek and lowly One, led as a lamb to the slaughter, un-
retaliating as a sheep dumb before her shearers. Let them look upon
Him whom our sins have pierced and our sorrows burdened, and they
will learn to endure, to forbear, and to forgive.
Through faith in Christ, every deficiency of character may be sup-
plied, every defilement cleansed, every fault corrected, every excel-
lence developed.
“Ye are complete in Him.”
Colossians 2:10
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Prayer and faith are closely allied, and they need to be studied
together. In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science
that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
Christ says, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that
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ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
Mark 11:24
. He makes it
plain that our asking must be according to God’s will; we must ask for
the things that He has promised, and whatever we receive must be used
in doing His will. The conditions met, the promise is unequivocal.
For the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christlike temper,
for wisdom and strength to do His work, for any gift He has promised,
we may ask; then we are to believe that we receive, and return thanks
to God that we have received.
We need look for no outward evidence of the blessing. The gift
is in the promise, and we may go about our work assured that what
God has promised He is able to perform, and that the gift, which we
already possess, will be realized when we need it most.
To live thus by the word of God means the surrender to Him of the
whole life. There will be felt a continual sense of need and dependence,