You will conquer. The conquering spirit is never crushed. Keep a brave and trusting heart. Face all your difficulties in the spirit of Conquest.
Rise to greater heights than you have known before. Remember where I am is Victory. Forces of evil, within and without you, flee at My Presence.
Win Me and all is won. All.
Only be thou strong and
very courageous.
Joshua 1:7
You cannot be doing My work well and wielding a worthy influence unless all your life is ordered.
Let that be your aim and your achievement.
Secure this order and you will be able to do so much more in My service, and, without haste or unrest, reflect more the order and beauty of My Kingdom.
You need this discipline in your life.
Peace is the result of an ordered life lived with Me.
Prepare yourself for each task, for each occasion. Pray for those you will contact, your time with them.
This will save discord, and will enable the work and planning, in which you cooperate with them, to be fruitful for good.
Rest knowing all is so safe in My Hands. Rest is Trust. Ceaseless activity is distrust. Without the knowledge that I am working for you, you do not rest. Inaction then would be the outcome of despair.
My Hand is not shortened that it cannot save. Know that, repeat it, rely on it, welcome the knowledge, delight in it. Such a truth is a hope flung to a drowning man. Every repetition of it is one pull nearer shore and safety.
Let that illustration teach you a great truth. Lay hold of the truth, pray it, affirm it, hold on to the rope. How foolish are your attempts to save yourself, one hand on the rope, and one making efforts to swim ashore! You may relinquish your hold of the rope and hinder the rescuer – who has to act with the greater caution lest he lose you.
The storms and tempests are not all of life. The Psalmist who said “All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me” wrote also “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
Meditate upon that wonder – truth, the three steps safety, security, guidance. (1) “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit” – Safety. (2) “He set my feet upon a rock” – Security (3) “He established my goings” – Guidance. No. 3 is the final stage when the saved soul trusts Me so entirely it seeks no more its own way but leaves all future plans to Me its Rescuer.
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms. Deuteronomy 33:27
Wherever My followers go, there should be My Light surrounding them. The Light of the Sun of Righteousness.
Evil cannot live in that Light.
Man is only just learning that light banishes disease.
Every follower of Mine who is in close personal touch with Me is surrounded by this Light. Light Eternal. Light reflected by a consciousness of My Presence.
So whether he speak or not he must be the means of diffusing My Light wherever he goes.
“Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.” Not for merit was salvation, the promise was to all who looked.
To look is surely within the Power of everyone. One look suffices. Salvation follows.
Look and you are saved from despair. Look and you are saved from care. Look and you are saved from worry. Look, and into you there flows a peace beyond all understanding, a Power new and vital, a Joy wonderful indeed.
Look and keep looking. Doubt flees, Joy reigns, and Hope conquers.
Life, Eternal Life, is yours – revitalizing, renewing.
I am come that they might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly. John 10:10
When you think of Me as your Rescuer, remember it is not only from sin, depression, or despair.
It is from the difficulties of life also and from perplexity as to your path. I solve your problems. I provide the channel through which help will come.
I send My messenger to prepare your way before you. I train you so that you may be fitted for your next task, so that you may be worthy of My promised blessing. That blessing which I long to shower on you.
“Sorrow may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
My bravest are those who can anticipate the morning and feel in the night of sorrow that underlying Joy that tells of confident expectations of the morning.
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others
which have no hope. 1 Thessalonians 4:11
We would see Jesus.
This is still the cry of a hungry, dissatisfied, seeking world.
I look to My followers to satisfy that cry.
Reflect Me, that the seekers may see Me in you, and then go on to company with Me.
Rejoice at this as John rejoiced when he could point his disciples to Me with the brave and humble words, “He must increase, and I must decrease.”
Go on in Faith and Joy and Love.
I will be much entreated because I know that only in that earnest supplication, and the calm trust that results, does man learn strength and gain peace. Therefore I have laid that incessant, persistent pleading as a duty upon My disciples.
Never weary in prayer. When one day man sees how marvelously his prayer has been answered, then he will deeply, so deeply, regret that he prayed so little.
Prayer changes all. Prayer re-creates. Prayer is irresistible. So pray, literally without ceasing.
Pray until you almost cease to pray, because trust has become so rock-like, and then pray on because it has become so much a habit that you cannot resist it.
And always pray until Prayer merges into Praise. That is the only note on which true prayer should end. It is the Love and Laughter of your attitude towards man interpreted in the Pray and Praise of your attitude towards God.
Men ought always to pray,
and not to faint.
Luke 18:1
Too many hinder their work for Me by seeking to justify themselves. You are fighting for Christ the King, not for yourself. The explaining or justifying must be for Me.
In any difficulty with another put yourself in his place and pray that his difficulty may be solved for him.
This will bring about a solution of yours, and help you to see better that for which you should pray.
The power to realize the needs of those you contact can only be acquired by absorbing sympathy and understanding from My Life. So, time for knowing Me must be increasingly dear and necessary to you.
Your task is to show the Power of My Spirit working through a life of yielded will, and the Joy that transforms the life when this is so.
