Like A Train
God’s Will is like a train whereas our prayer is like the rails of a train.
A train may travel to any place, except that it must run on rails.
It has tremendous power, but it can only run to places where rails have been laid.
God Chooses to be Governed by man’s Prayer, therefore all Valuable Prayers Pave the Way for God.
Consequently, if we do not take up the Responsibility of Prayer, we will hinder the Fulfillment of God’s Will.
Painful Chastisement
He will not keep back even the Most Painful Chastisement if He can but thereby Guide His beloved child to Come Home and Abide in the Beloved Son.
Christian! Pray for Grace to See in every trouble, small or great, the Father’s Finger Pointing to Jesus, and Saying, Abide in Him.
Abide in Christ
Abide in Christ!
This is indeed the Father’s Object in Sending the Trial.
In the storm the tree strikes deeper roots in the soil; in the hurricane the inhabitants of the house abide within, and rejoice in its shelter.
So By Suffering the Father would Lead us to Enter More Deeply Into the Love of Christ.
His Church
The Lord is at present nourishing and cherishing His Church.
Christ is Now Engaged in Nourishing and Cherishing us.
We are Parts of His Body, the Cherished Objects of His Loving Care.
Every Believer
A Priest is man who does not live for himself.
He Lives With God and For God.
His Work is as God’s Servant to Care for His House, His Honor, and His Worship, and to Make Known to men His Love and His Will.
This is the High Calling of Every Believer.
This is the Glory of All His Saints.
They are Redeemed for This Purpose.
Reckoning
From the time we Believe in the Lord, whatever we do or do not do will all await a Time of Reckoning.
Reckoning here has nothing to do with Salvation.
Our walk, speech, and even thoughts will all be Presented at the Judgment Seat.
If our faults are Under the Blood, they have Already Been Judged and will therefore not be recalled.
But if they are not Repented of and have not been Put Under the Blood, there will have to be an Accounting of them.
Accordingly, let us learn to judge ourselves.
The Grace and Love of His Righteousness and Holiness are Revealed at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
He will not overlook our unholiness.
Saturday March 15 2025
COLOSSIANS 3.4
when the Christ—our life—may have appeared, then we will also appear with Him in glory.
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JOHN 15.2
every branch not bearing fruit in Me, He takes it away, and everyone bearing fruit, He cleanses by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;
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EPHESIANS 5.29
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and nurtures it, as also the LORD—the Assembly,
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1 PETER 2.5
and you yourselves are built up as living stones [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
ISAIAH 61.6
And you are called priests of YHWH, || It is said of you [that you are] ministers of our God,
LUKE 4.18
The Spirit of the LORD [is] on Me, || Because He anointed Me || To proclaim good news to the poor, || Sent Me to heal the broken of heart, || To proclaim to captives deliverance, || And to blind receiving of sight, || To send the bruised away with deliverance,
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2 CORINTHIANS 5.10
for it is necessary for all of us to have appeared before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;
1 CORINTHIANS 3.10-15
According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, I have laid a foundation, and another builds on [it], for no one is able to lay another foundation except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; and if anyone builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—the work will become visible of each, for the day will declare [it], because it is revealed in fire, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire will prove; if the work of anyone remains that he built on [it], he will receive a wage; if the work of any is burned up, he will suffer loss, but himself will be saved, but so as through fire.
Still More Closely
He Has Prepared His People, who are So Ready when trial comes to be shaken in their confidence, and to be moved from their Abiding in Christ,
TO HEAR in each affliction The Voice of a Messenger that Comes to Call them to Abide Still More Closely.
Yes! Believer! most specially in times of trial, Abide in Christ.