The Worker’s Need (Part 22)
Chapter 43—A Higher Experience (Part 6)
Now the church is militant. Now we are confronted with a world in darkness, almost wholly given over to idolatry.
“Abide in Me”
Christ bids us: “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me…. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing…. If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples.
“As the Father hath loved Me, so have I loved you: continue ye in My love….
“Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you.” John 15:4-16.
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.” Revelation 3:20.
“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.” Revelation 2:17.
“He that overcometh, … I will give him the Morning Star,” “and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God: … and I will write upon him My new name.” Verses 26-28; 3:12.
https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/135.2720#2720
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You that we can always depend on You for all things. Please bless us to not lean on humanity for what we must trust only to You. Thank You for the assurance of Your Holy Spirit to work within us to reflect the love and character and courage and faith of Jesus Christ. Please bless us to be men and women of prayer. Please bless us so that our petitions will not be faint, occasional, and fitful, but earnest, persevering, and constant. Please bless us to wholly surrender your will and way to You, without making a single reserve or a single compromise with self. Please bless us to know what it is to be free in Christ. Please bless us to have a communion with You that will ennoble our character and life—one that will move men to take knowledge of us, as of the first disciples, that we have been with Jesus. We desire that we might have the mind of Christ to save souls and enjoy His experience of perfect obedience to Your will that we might one day soon stand in Thy glorious presence without fear of death. Thank You, because we ask it in the Awesome and Almighty name of Your Son, Jesus, our Saving King. Amen.
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DID YOU KNOW THIS…? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? —Romans 8:32 KJV [The WORD OF GOD—It’s the only flesh that is safe to eat (meditate on) to live forever!]
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NOTE: These began as daily texts to encourage my academy roommate and dear friend of nearly 50 years, until she suddenly passed March 2023. Now I continue to compile and send them to anyone who will receive them and to her family in honor of their mom. Lately, I have begun featuring consecutive chapter portions of a select Bible-based book.
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My personal prayer is that God will bless me to find ways to multiply this gift, so that we all may be encouraged to be found faithful in the sight of a Holy God, whenever Christ returns or our eyes are shut in the sleep of death.
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