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POWER THROUGH PRAYER. Prayer is the most triumphant factor in Christian warfare. God's witnesses have ever proved it to be strength in weakness and courage in dismay. Jacob wrestles, and prevails with the angel. Moses prays, and Amalek is discomfited. Elijah prays, and the people return to Jehovah. Asa prays and a victory is gained. Isaiah and Hezekiah pray, and the Assyrians are routed. Daniel prays, and the lions are muzzled. The Early Church prays, and the Holy Ghost so fills them that the Gospel is triumphantly proclaimed. To hardpressed believers in every age. prayer has been a shield on which the world and the wicked one have expended their fiery darts in vain.
HOLDING THE BALANCE. The teaching of God's Word should be held and taught in a balanced way. Where this is not done, and one phase of teaching is so constantly emphasised that it is over-emphasised, that teaching, though in itself Biblical, may be•come the source of fatal anddamaging error.—Selected.
FROM FEAR TO TRUST. The same Lord Jesus is not far, far away, for it is He who commandeth the voyage. He knows all about the difficulty, and when your extremity is reached, and before, it will be His opportunity for adding to your experience such as you would never gain without the trial. I sometimes say to my friends that every trial is a ’step, if you take it up you are up, but if you take it down you are down. The moral is always take it up. The Lord J esus dealt with cause and consequence, and then entered the ship, and immediately they were on the other side, and they had a little rest that night, but the greatest rest came from His presence, and the words of good cheer. —Bishop Taylor Smith. GRACE. The Lord that I have known as laying down His life for me, is the same Lord I have to do with every day of my life—and all His dealings with me are oil the same principle of grace. The great secret of growth is the looking up to the Lord as gracious. How precious, how strengthening it is to know that Jesus i_s at this moment feeling and exercising the same love towards me, as when He died on the cross for me. This is a truth that should he used by us in the most common every-day circumstances of life. i It is Jesus only Who gives abiding
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 13
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