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To be near unto God - pagina 117
themselves, to feel his love; that He regeaerated them, but that conscious faith did not reach the fuller knowledge of his name. This led to the unusual condition that God worked inwardly with his power, but that in spite of it doubt filled the heart and mind. We have all known certain people who ...
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meansof hard and perilous times, which try us to the utmost; by contact with different people who are met by the way; by impressions of angels that hover about us at his command, and by his secret workings in the heart. It is an embroidering which God works upon the soul in all sorts But h ...
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of little elevation of character degrades us. Daily intercourse with people of nobler disposition, of more seriousness of thought, and of holier aims in life, spur us on to better things ourselves. good man is like a good genius to us. Pure environments hold us back from things that pull us down. ...
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fore to seek fresh air and a healthy atmosphere. In hot and sultry summer days we pant for the And they who are relief which evening brings. in easy reach of the shore revel in the cool invigorating air of the sea. And since we are two-sided, that is to say, since we consist of body and soul, the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 121
maypartake of the inspiration that goes forthfrom a finely-strung nature among our fellow men. But the highest of all, the influence of which for real strengthening of heart far exceeds all others, the secret walk with God. Paul prays for theisEphesians (3:16) that the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 122
near unto him, continual consciousness of his holy, encouraging and inspiring presence, personal realization of God's nearness on every side, with all of life immersed, as it were, in the glory that shines out from the Divine Being, and feeling in the heart the throbbings of the Father-heart of G ...
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And when the "Cultivate the the atmosphere except as Godmatter is pressed, and it is said, secret walk with God and drink in of the life above," no one responds, draws him. And if we are privilthis secret fellowship, it but showseged to know what excellent grace has been bestowed up ...
To be near unto God - pagina 124
of this all-dominating thought too closely, the fact that God is Spirit lifts human life above the whole visible world and exalts the* spirit within us to the high spheres of the invisible world where God For if God is dwells in light unapproachable. Spirit, he is altogether independent of this v ...
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Heis a God who is our Heavenly Father, who speaks to us, who hears our prayers, in whose breast throbs a heart full of Divine compassion. He is a personal God, who companies with us as a friend, who turns in with us for the night, and who allows us to dwell in his holy tabernacle. The work ...
To be near unto God - pagina 125
be confessed that he, too, is a spirit and that his are spirits. This does not make sin purely spiritual, neither does it exclude sin from the world of matter. But it means that all sin, including voluptuousness and drunkenness, originates in the spirit, and that the Psalmist was correct when he ...
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