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A Prayer in Behalf of God’s People, October 31
O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for
thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy
name.
Daniel 9:19
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Heavenly Father, Thou hast said, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek,
and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you” (
Matthew 7:7
) .
Heavenly Father, we need Thy Holy Spirit. We do not want to work ourselves,
only as we work in unity with God. We want to be in a position where the
Holy Spirit of God shall be upon us with its reviving, sanctifying power. Wilt
Thou manifest Thyself unto us this very morning! Wilt Thou sweep away
every mist and every cloud of darkness!
We come to Thee, our compassionate Redeemer; and we ask Thee, for
Christ’s sake—for Thine own Son’s sake, my Father, that Thou wilt manifest
Thy power unto Thy people here. We want wisdom; we want righteousness;
we want truth; we want the Holy Spirit to be with us.
Thou hast presented before us a great work that must be carried forward in
behalf of those that are in the truth, and in behalf of those that are in ignorance
of our faith; and oh, Lord, as Thou hast given to every man his work, we
beseech of Thee that the Holy Spirit may impress the human mind in regard
to the burden of work that shall rest upon every individual soul, according to
Thine appointment. We want to be proved; we want to be sanctified through
and through; we want to be fitted up for the work; and here, right here in this
session of the conference, we want to see a revelation of the Holy Spirit of
God. We want light, Lord—Thou art the Light. We want truth, Lord—Thou
art the Truth. We want the right way—Thou art the Way.
Lord, I beseech of Thee that we may all be wise enough to discern that
we must individually open the heart to Jesus Christ, that through the Holy
Spirit He may come in to mold and fashion us anew, in accordance with the
divine Image. Oh, my Father, my Father! melt and subdue our hearts.—
The
General Conference Bulletin, April 2, 1903
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