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and in distant lands. I am encouraged and blessed as I realize that the
God of Israel is still guiding His people, and that He will continue to
be with them, even to the end.
I am instructed to say to our ministering brethren, Let the messages
that come from your lips be charged with the power of the Spirit of
God. If ever there was a time when we needed the special guidance of
the Holy Spirit, it is now. We need a thorough consecration. It is fully
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time that we gave to the world a demonstration of the power of God in
our own lives and in our ministry.
The Lord desires to see the work of proclaiming the third angel’s
message carried forward with increasing efficiency. As He has worked
in all ages to give victories to His people, so in this age He longs to
carry to a triumphant fulfillment His purposes for His church. He bids
His believing saints to advance unitedly, going from strength to greater
strength, from faith to increased assurance and confidence in the truth
and righteousness of His cause.
We are to stand firm as a rock to the principles of the Word of
God, remembering that God is with us to give us strength to meet each
new experience. Let us ever maintain in our lives the principles of
righteousness, that we may go forward from strength to strength in the
name of the Lord. We are to hold as very sacred the faith that has been
substantiated by the instruction and approval of the Spirit of God from
our earliest experience until the present time. We are to cherish as very
precious the work that the Lord has been carrying forward through His
commandment-keeping people, and which, through the power of His
grace, will grow stronger and more efficient as time advances. The
enemy is seeking to becloud the discernment of God’s people, and to
weaken their efficiency, but if they will labor as the Spirit of God shall
direct, He will open doors of opportunity before them for the work
of building up the old waste places. Their experience will be one of
constant growth, until the Lord shall descend from heaven with power
and great glory to set His seal of final triumph upon His faithful ones.
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The work that lies before us is one that will put to the stretch
every power of the human being. It will call for the exercise of strong
faith and constant vigilance. At times the difficulties that we shall
meet will be most disheartening. The very greatness of the task will
appall us. And yet, with God’s help, His servants will finally triumph.
“Wherefore,” my brethren, “I desire that ye faint not” (
Ephesians 3:13
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