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More Earnest Praying, October 30
We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our
fathers: for we have sinned against thee. Do not abhor us, for thy
name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break
not thy covenant with us.
Jeremiah 14:20, 21
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Let our prayers ascend to God for His converting, transforming grace.
Meetings should be held in every church for solemn prayer and earnest search-
ing of the Word to know what is truth. Take the promises of God, and ask
God in living faith for the outpouring of His Holy Spirit. When the Holy
Spirit is shed upon us, marrow and fatness will be drawn from the Word of
God....
When the churches become living, working churches, the Holy Spirit will
be given in answer to their sincere request. Then the truth of God’s Word will
be regarded with new interest, and will be explored as if it were a revelation
just from the courts above. Every declaration of inspiration concerning Christ
will take hold of the inmost soul of those who love Him. Envy, jealousy, evil
surmising, will cease. The Bible will be regarded as a charter from heaven.
Its study will absorb the mind, and its truths will feast the soul. The promises
of God now repeated as if the soul had never tasted of His love, will then
glow upon the altar of the heart, and fall in burning words from the lips of
the messengers of God. They will then plead with souls with an earnestness
that cannot be repulsed. Then the windows of heaven will be open for the
showers of the latter rain. The followers of Christ will be united in love.
The only way the truth can be presented to the world, in its pure and holy
character, is for those who claim to believe it to be exponents of its power.
The Bible requires the sons and daughters of God to stand on an elevated
platform; for God calls upon them to represent Christ to the world. As they
represent Christ, they represent the Father. Unity of believers testifies of
their oneness with Christ, and this unity is required by the accumulated light
which now shines upon the pathway of the children of God.—
The Review
and Herald, February 25, 1890
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