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Pour out Praise and Thanksgiving, September 28
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with
thanksgiving.
Psalm 69:30
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The voice is a wonderful organ. It is a wonderful blessing, and let us use it
wholly on Christ’s side, and not praise the devil by complaining of the hardness of
the way to heaven. Suppose we give to the world a living example of the beauty
there is in religion and Jesus Christ by the offerings we present to God, talking of
His goodness, and telling of His power.
If you feel disposed to murmur, let it die before you give it breath, and let your
voice and tongue be educated, and then when you open your eyes in the morning
the very first thing will be, “I thank the Lord; He has kept me through the night. I
thank Thee, Jesus Christ, for the peace that is in my heart,” and morning, noon,
and night you have a gratitude offering. It comes up before God as sweet perfume.
And Jesus said He would give us the Comforter. What is the Comforter? It
is the Holy Spirit of God. What is the Holy Spirit? It is the representative of
Jesus Christ, it is our Advocate that stands by our side and places our petitions
before the Father all fragrant with His merits. There He accepts the petition of
the humblest saint. He doesn’t ask you how much money you have, or how heavy
you are loaded with property, but the very humblest saint that brings his petition
to God, and [his] thank offering is made fragrant with the riches of His grace, and
the Father accepts it as your offering, and the blessing comes to you, grace for
grace.
As you pour out your thank offering, God is glorified, and He gives you more.
As you pour out thanksgiving He gives you more joy. We learn to praise God
from whom all blessings flow. Shall we not begin right here to turn over the page
and forget our murmurings and complainings and faultfinding, and educate the
tongue to courteous words, and loving words, and sympathetic words, and tender
kindness for one another of His children?
Let us show Christ formed within, the hope of glory, by the fruit that we bear,
and thus we can evidence to the world a living Saviour.... He arose. He broke the
fetters of the tomb. In triumph He rejoices over the rent sepulchre of Joseph. “I
am the resurrection and the life.” Glory to God. I praise Him, the resurrection and
the life. You have ... a living Saviour.
Then hang your helpless souls on Jesus Christ. Abide in the vine, and bear
fruit to His glory, and His joy shall be in you, and your joy shall be full.... May the
Holy Spirit of God impress the heart, and may the character reveal the loveliness
of Jesus Christ, because you are His representatives.—
Manuscript 43, 1894
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