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The Ministry of Healing
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sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes.” “And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed
away.”
Revelation 7:14-17
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Revelation 21:4
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We need to keep ever before us this vision of things unseen. It is
thus that we shall be able to set a right value on the things of eternity
and the things of time. It is this that will give us power to influence
others for the higher life.
In the Mount With God
“Come up to Me into the mount,” God bids us. To Moses, before
he could be God’s instrument in delivering Israel, was appointed
the forty years of communion with Him in the mountain solitudes.
Before bearing God’s message to Pharaoh, he spoke with the angel
in the burning bush. Before receiving God’s law as the representative
of His people, he was called into the mount, and beheld His glory.
Before executing justice on the idolaters, he was hidden in the cleft
of the rock, and the Lord said, “I will proclaim the name of the Lord
before thee,” “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant
in loving-kindness and truth; ... and that will by no means clear the
guilty.”
Exodus 33:19
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34:6, 7
, A.R.V. Before he laid down, with his
life, his burden for Israel, God called him to the top of Pisgah and
spread out before him the glory of the Promised Land.
Before the disciples went forth on their mission, they were called
up into the mount with Jesus. Before the power and glory of Pente-
cost, came the night of communion with the Saviour, the meeting
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on the mountain in Galilee, the parting scene upon Olivet, with the
angel’s promise, and the days of prayer and communion in the upper
chamber.
Jesus, when preparing for some great trial or some important
work, would resort to the solitude of the mountains and spend the
night in prayer to His Father. A night of prayer preceded the ordina-
tion of the apostles and the Sermon on the Mount, the transfiguration,