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“He who touches you touches the apple of His eye.”
Zechariah
2:8
. “Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall
bring it to pass. ... He shall bring forth your righteousness as the
light, and your justice as the noonday.”
Psalm 37:5, 6
.
“Those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You,
Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.”
Psalm 9:10
.
The compassion that God manifests toward us, He tells us to
manifest toward others. Encourage the impulsive, the self-sufficient,
the revengeful, to behold the meek and lowly One, led as a lamb to
the slaughter, unretaliating as a sheep before its shearers. Point them
to 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
supplied, every defilement cleansed, every fault corrected, every
excellence developed.
“You are complete in Him.”
Colossians 2:10
.
Prayer and faith are closely allied, and they need to be studied
together. In the prayer of faith there is a divine science, a science
that everyone who would make his or her lifework a success must
understand. Christ says, “Whatever things you ask when you pray,
believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
Mark 11:24
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He makes it plain that our asking must be according to God’s will.
We must ask for the things He has promised, and whatever we receive
must be used in doing His will. When the conditions have been met,
the promise is unequivocal.
For the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christlike tem-
per, 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
thank God that we have received. The gift is in the promise, and
we may go about our work assured that the gift, which we already
possess, will be realized when we need it most.
Prayer a Necessity
To live thus by the Word of God means the surrender to Him of
the whole life. We will feel a continual sense of need and depen-
dence, a drawing out of the heart after God. Prayer is a necessity,
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for it is the life of the soul. Family prayer, public prayer, have their