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17 - The Life of Rest - The Spiritual Life - Andrew Murray · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: The life of rest. Now this morning, I want to
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  Speaker 1: take one of the very simplest thoughts of God's word
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  Speaker 1: as the subject of my address. We have been speaking
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  Speaker 1: for two weeks about the spiritual life, but you know
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  Speaker 1: where the spiritual life is to be put into practice
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  Speaker 1: in the every day life and to day. Therefore, I
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  Speaker 1: want to come down very low to the level of
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  Speaker 1: our every day Christianity. It is in the rush of
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  Speaker 1: daily life that the presence of God is to be
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  Speaker 1: experienced and his power to be proved. We began last
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  Speaker 1: week by speaking about the work of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to point out to you what God intends
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  Speaker 1: that spirit to be in your daily life, in your
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  Speaker 1: walk as holy and spiritually minded men, in a walk
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  Speaker 1: of love and humility. I tried to point what the
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  Speaker 1: great hindrances are too a spiritual life, especially self. I
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  Speaker 1: try to point out what the bless sicknesses that will
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  Speaker 1: come if we give ourselves to the leading of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and what the object is for which we are to
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  Speaker 1: seek it. Then we came this week to speak about
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  Speaker 1: the work of Christ. I began by pointing out that
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  Speaker 1: his great work is just to bring us very near
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  Speaker 1: to God and how I believe that this is a
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  Speaker 1: great want in the Church of Christ. We need more
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  Speaker 1: of God, more humble waiting upon God in our private
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  Speaker 1: prayer and worship and in public services. God must take
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  Speaker 1: the first place in everything. We must take time to
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  Speaker 1: wait upon God for God to take that place in
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  Speaker 1: our souls. I then spoke about how Christ came to
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  Speaker 1: exhibit just this one thing, a life of absolute dependence
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  Speaker 1: upon God. He came to reveal to us that God
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  Speaker 1: was everything to him. We spoke of other parts of
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  Speaker 1: his work, and last night we closed by speaking about
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ in his blos lest work as an almighty keeper,
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  Speaker 1: and ended by a consecration beating, in which we gave
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  Speaker 1: up ourselves to him. God grant that many souls may
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  Speaker 1: know what it is that the everlasting God is keeping them.
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  Speaker 1: And now we have to go away to our daily life,
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  Speaker 1: our homes, our business, our studies, our duties, and all
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  Speaker 1: of you know by experience that it is just there
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  Speaker 1: that the failure comes in. It is all right in
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  Speaker 1: my closet, and it is all right in my worship,
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  Speaker 1: and all right in my work when I am speaking
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  Speaker 1: for Christ. But o the times of relaxation, the times
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  Speaker 1: when I am off my guard, and the times when
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  Speaker 1: I am in the duties of this life. These are
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  Speaker 1: the times when failures come, and the great question now arises.
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  Speaker 1: How can I live so that not only on the
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  Speaker 1: mount of worship, but down low in the valley of
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  Speaker 1: the most ordinary, every day life, I may have unbroken
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  Speaker 1: the sense of the presence of God. Dear friends, if
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  Speaker 1: you want the revelation of God, I have told you
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  Speaker 1: more than once, you must take more time in prayer
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  Speaker 1: and have daily fellowship with God. You must take more
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  Speaker 1: time in your secret hour of prayer, just quietly to
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  Speaker 1: realize God and adore Him. But the fullest revelation of
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  Speaker 1: God cannot satisfy unless it is carried out in the
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  Speaker 1: daily life. The value of contact with God every day,
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  Speaker 1: and the value of the power of the Holy Ghost daily,
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  Speaker 1: and the value of Christ as a keeper must be
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  Speaker 1: proved in daily life. More than one begins to ask,
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  Speaker 1: will it last? The blessing I have got? Will I
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  Speaker 1: be faithful? Will it ever be carried out in my
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  Speaker 1: daily life? Listen to the word I have for you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. It is one of the simplest descriptions of
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  Speaker 1: the life of faith. Philippians Chapter four, verses five and six.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful or anxious for nothing, but in everything, by
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  Speaker 1: prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made
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  Speaker 1: known unto God. Here we have a RESTful life. It
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  Speaker 1: is the life of continual trust, continual prayer, continual praise,
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  Speaker 1: continual peace, continual safety. Five blessed marks of the blessed life. First,
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  Speaker 1: the RESTful life is a life of continual trust. That
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  Speaker 1: is where it begins. You notice that we have the
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  Speaker 1: name of God in these two verses twice. In the
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  Speaker 1: first verse it is bring your needs, your requests unto God,
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  Speaker 1: that is to say, let God be the one object
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  Speaker 1: of your trust. And then comes in the second verse,
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  Speaker 1: and God will be a fountain of blessing to you.
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  Speaker 1: The peace of God will keep you. These are the
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  Speaker 1: two sides. My love must be turned to God, and
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  Speaker 1: God's love and blessing will be turned to me. Be
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  Speaker 1: anxious for nothing. You know how difficult it is to
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  Speaker 1: obey the command You hear people tell when you talk
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  Speaker 1: about the higher life. Oh, if you only knew my circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: At Northfield, a man told me, it is all very
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  Speaker 1: well at a convention that one does come into such
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  Speaker 1: difficulties in business, that it is almost impossible to expect
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  Speaker 1: that you will always be kept in perfect peace. Now
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  Speaker 1: Here comes the word of God. Dear children of God,
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  Speaker 1: who gave yourselves up last night, learn the lesson be
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  Speaker 1: anxious for nothing, and why because you have a God
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  Speaker 1: that cares for you. Oh, I wish I could say
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  Speaker 1: to my friends and myself what I see sometimes? Is
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  Speaker 1: God going to do everything so perfectly in nature all
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  Speaker 1: around me? And is the only place he is going
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  Speaker 1: to fail here in my life? Look at the sun
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  Speaker 1: for thousands of years, how perfectly it has been shining,
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  Speaker 1: and with what abiding fruitfulness it has blessed. The earth
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  Speaker 1: so perfect it cannot be more perfect, and it was
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  Speaker 1: God that made it shine. Look on the earth at
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  Speaker 1: these trees and flowers and the green grass. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the bird, the animal, or fish, each one so perfectly
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  Speaker 1: fitted to show forth the glory, wisdom and power of God.
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  Speaker 1: And is God not able to work as perfectly in
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of his child and is the only place
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  Speaker 1: of failure to be your heart and mine? I cannot
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  Speaker 1: believe it. I believe that the God who works so
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  Speaker 1: gloriously in the universe, is willing to work more gloriously
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, so that your heart shall be the
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  Speaker 1: scene where His glory is fully revealed, the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: what God's love and power can do. But why does
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  Speaker 1: he not do it? Because you won't let him, because
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  Speaker 1: you don't trust him, because you allow circumstances to come
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  Speaker 1: between you and God, because you, in your heart believe
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  Speaker 1: circumstances are stronger than God. You think God cannot deliver
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  Speaker 1: me from their power. You have not got fully under
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  Speaker 1: the power of the promises and love of God. This
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  Speaker 1: word comes, be anxious for nothing. God is willing to
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  Speaker 1: take charge of everything. Apply that to external things. One
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  Speaker 1: may be in adversity, another may be surrounded by enemies,
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  Speaker 1: another may not be able to keep his engagements. Then
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  Speaker 1: comes the word be anxious for nothing. You know how
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  Speaker 1: depressing it is to have unconverted relatives. Are you not
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  Speaker 1: to be anxious about that? No, be anxious for nothing?
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  Speaker 1: How can that be? In this way alone? That I
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  Speaker 1: carry all the care under trouble and the circumstances to
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  Speaker 1: the living God, and that I wait upon Him until
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  Speaker 1: I get sight of my God undertaking and taking complete charge.
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  Speaker 1: When my soul gets sight of that, the anxiety goes away,
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  Speaker 1: and I rest in the perfect trust. God cares. God
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  Speaker 1: has charge, and God will guide me right. Apply that
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  Speaker 1: to your spiritual work. I know there are those here
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  Speaker 1: who are in great difficulty about their spiritual life. They
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  Speaker 1: have taken the step last night, but they have done
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  Speaker 1: it more than once before. There is a note of
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  Speaker 1: fear in their hearts. Will it last? I have such
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  Speaker 1: a temper, I have such a disposition. I have such
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  Speaker 1: little help in those around me. There are a thousand
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  Speaker 1: things around me to draw me back. I come to
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  Speaker 1: point you to what Jesus Christ did. He came to
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  Speaker 1: bring us to God. If as his humble, feeble servant,
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  Speaker 1: I can take you and lead you to your God,
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  Speaker 1: my work will be done. What is a god for?
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  Speaker 1: A God is meant to be the light and life
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  Speaker 1: of all nature and existence. A God lives for this.
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  Speaker 1: We need a God to be the only power that
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  Speaker 1: works throughout the universe. A God is meant to have
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  Speaker 1: charge of the creatures he has made and to fill
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  Speaker 1: their life with his blessedness. Look at your God. Never
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  Speaker 1: did a mother care for a little child with such
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  Speaker 1: watchful tenderness from morning to night. As your God is
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  Speaker 1: willing to take charge of your spiritual and your external life.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know this God? Have you learned to say,
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  Speaker 1: I do trust thee. I have no anxiety for my
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  Speaker 1: God provides. He is God Almighty, and his promises are
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  Speaker 1: so wonderful, and he is so loving and tender. I
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  Speaker 1: will trust my God. Who is going to say, this morning,
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  Speaker 1: God help me. I want to have not a single anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to trust God. God will do his
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  Speaker 1: work beautifully and blessedly and most gloriously. Children of God,
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  Speaker 1: be careful for nothing. You know the sixth chapter of Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: with those precious words of the Lord Jesus. They are
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  Speaker 1: not only for poor people who have no clothes, but
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  Speaker 1: they are meant for every one of us. If God
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  Speaker 1: clothe the lilies with his beauty, how much more will
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  Speaker 1: he clothe you? Just think of that. How does God
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  Speaker 1: clothe the lilies? Not from without? He puts within the
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  Speaker 1: life that grows up into them, and with most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: freshness there comes up a lily. A lily has the
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  Speaker 1: life of God, the spirit of nature that comes from
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  Speaker 1: God working in it. God clothed that lily, And will
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  Speaker 1: God not much more clothe you and be with the beauty,
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  Speaker 1: of holiness and of humility. Oh Christian, take this word.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful for nothing. The RESTful life is a life
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  Speaker 1: of continual trust. Second, the next mark of a RESTful
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  Speaker 1: life in everything by prayer and supplication. Let your requests
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  Speaker 1: be known unto God. Continual prayer. It is in prayer
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  Speaker 1: that you will learn the secret of trusting. If you
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  Speaker 1: take but little time to pray, you will have but
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  Speaker 1: little power to trust. Trust toward God is not natural
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  Speaker 1: to us. Trust is very natural to us toward a
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  Speaker 1: fellow man. When a man tells me a thing, I
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  Speaker 1: do not take a moment to believe. We are on
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  Speaker 1: the platform of nature. When my God speaks, we are
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  Speaker 1: on another platform. God is the invisible one, a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of holiness, and I can trust Him only by the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit coming into me. If I live under the
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  Speaker 1: leading of the Holy Spirit, my heart grows larger, my
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  Speaker 1: capacity of trust is increased. My eyes are opened up,
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  Speaker 1: and I see the glory and limitless promises of God
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  Speaker 1: and the treasures of his grace. I see his heart
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  Speaker 1: and omnipotent love actually engaged in blessing me, and my
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  Speaker 1: heart learns to rejoice in Him. In prayer, I learn
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  Speaker 1: to trust him. Remember this in everything that means temporal things,
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  Speaker 1: that means spiritual things, that means great things, and that
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  Speaker 1: means little things. Some people pray about the great things,
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  Speaker 1: great troubles, but not about the little things. That is
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  Speaker 1: wrong in the life of faith. Some think that the
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  Speaker 1: word means all I can manage I keep in my
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  Speaker 1: own hands, and all I cannot manage, I may expect
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  Speaker 1: God to take care of. This is not the way
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  Speaker 1: God must have all committed to him. One asks me,
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  Speaker 1: how can I know the will of God in a difficulty?
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  Speaker 1: My brother? The way to know that in difficulty is
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  Speaker 1: to follow the will of God its simple things. Let
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit show you the will of God in
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  Speaker 1: little things every day, and when great perplexities come, the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit will reveal God's will. What a privilege it is,
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  Speaker 1: amid the worries of daily life and difficult circumstances to
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  Speaker 1: leave them all with God, just to say, Lord, these circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: I bring them all to THEE. I entrust them to
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  Speaker 1: THEE by prayer and supplication. I can put them into
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  Speaker 1: my Father's bosom indefinitely. I can give them over to Him,
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  Speaker 1: and I can rest there until conscious that the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: assures me they are in God's hands. In more prayer
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  Speaker 1: you will learn the secret of trust in spiritual things.
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  Speaker 1: How often we go to a minister, or to a teacher,
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  Speaker 1: or books, Not that I am depreciating teachers or books,
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  Speaker 1: but when we depend upon them, they come between us
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  Speaker 1: and God. How often we have questions and say, I
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  Speaker 1: wish I could ask that question. I wish he would
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  Speaker 1: tell us what he thinks, instead of going with every
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  Speaker 1: question to God and saying, I do not expect the
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  Speaker 1: voice of an angel to bring an answer at once,
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  Speaker 1: but I once, in answer to prayer, to put the
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  Speaker 1: difficulty in the bosom of the Father. And I know
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  Speaker 1: by the secret in working of the Holy Spirit, he
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  Speaker 1: will give me light on it and lead in a
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  Speaker 1: right path. Let your life be full of prayer. I
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  Speaker 1: have spoken about this need of daily fellowship with God.
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  Speaker 1: I have put a few thoughts together and had them
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  Speaker 1: put in print to be distributed among the friends. They
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  Speaker 1: contain some instructions as to how the soul ought to
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  Speaker 1: cultivate daily fellowship with God, in taking the place before God,
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  Speaker 1: in realizing His presence, in taking our place in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: in deepest humility and counting upon the work of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. If you will follow these instructions or any
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  Speaker 1: others in God's word, you will find it such a
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  Speaker 1: blessed thing to come and bow before God and present
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  Speaker 1: your petitions. But you say, is God not listening to
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  Speaker 1: what I say? Before I have felt the consciousness? Such
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  Speaker 1: prayer helps very little. By prayer and supplication, make your
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  Speaker 1: requests known unto God. Let your heart feel that you
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  Speaker 1: have made it known to God. God will answer. I
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  Speaker 1: have heard leave it with me. If you will thus
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  Speaker 1: pray your prayers, there will be a new job, a
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  Speaker 1: very fountain of blessing opened up to you. May God
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  Speaker 1: make us all men of prayer. Remember that the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: says in everything it does not mean only about your
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  Speaker 1: own deeds. But the blessedness of prayer is it gives
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  Speaker 1: me power with God as intercessor. The great work of
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  Speaker 1: my Lord Jesus is to be always interceding. There is
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  Speaker 1: no more heavenly work than intercession. And yet how much neglected,
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  Speaker 1: how little practiced. Let us learn by prayer and supplication
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  Speaker 1: to bring everything that might make us anxious to God.
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  Speaker 1: Here is a minister with the congregation. How many things
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  Speaker 1: he has to make him anxious, his own weakness, his
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  Speaker 1: own spiritual life, the state of his members, some worldly Christians,
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  Speaker 1: some unconverted people, how much to make him anxious. What
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  Speaker 1: a privilege in intercession to get rid of it all,
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  Speaker 1: to throw it into the bosom of Jehovah. And to
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  Speaker 1: day I have made it known to God. That is enough.
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  Speaker 1: There is a great deal in the Church and its
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  Speaker 1: worldliness that might well make us tremendously anxious. Some are
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  Speaker 1: deceiving themselves with a great deal of formality, with a
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  Speaker 1: great deal of head knowledge, and the real personal love
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus is wanting. But oh, do not let us
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  Speaker 1: bear our burdens and anxieties ourselves, but learn the rest
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  Speaker 1: of trust, the rest of faith. The blessed life is
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  Speaker 1: the life of continual prayer, pouring into the heart of
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  Speaker 1: God everything that comes into my heart. Third, not only
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  Speaker 1: continual prayer, but continual praise in everything by prayer and
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  Speaker 1: supplication with thanksgiving. Our prayers should be mingled with thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: for many reasons. The first practical reason, prayer will be
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  Speaker 1: sure to cause depression. If you do not mingle it
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  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving. In prayer, you may get too much occupied
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  Speaker 1: with self. You turn to search out all your needs,
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  Speaker 1: and they are so many you will be in danger
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  Speaker 1: of getting anxious. Here is the cure for it. The
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  Speaker 1: apostle says, always pray with thanksgiving. Begin your prayer with
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  Speaker 1: worship and thanksgiving. Another reason for thanksgiving. It pleases God.
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  Speaker 1: It will draw him to you. Begin your prayer with praise.
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  Speaker 1: It will light up your heart. It will make you
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  Speaker 1: rejoice in God, and joy gives new power in prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Begin your prayer with praise. It will give wings to
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  Speaker 1: your faith. When you think of what God has done
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  Speaker 1: and what God has promised to do, praise Him for it. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: God will do more every day. When you neglect to
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  Speaker 1: praise God, you rob him of his glory and yourself
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  Speaker 1: of a precious privilege. When you hear of men converted,
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  Speaker 1: when you read a missionary letter showing blessing in his work,
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  Speaker 1: praise God for the work that is being done. When
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  Speaker 1: you hear of any good of a man, praise God
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  Speaker 1: for it. Take every opportunity for praising. You will find
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  Speaker 1: it ever leading you onward, ever upward. It gives a
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of God's goodness, of joy and trust in Him.
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  Speaker 1: Ever mingling your heart will be established in the rest
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  Speaker 1: of faith. Fourth, and the peace of God that passeth
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  Speaker 1: understanding shall keep you. Who is there to day that
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  Speaker 1: would like to have the peace of God, the peace
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  Speaker 1: that passes all understanding. Who would desire it? Are there
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  Speaker 1: any hearts here that say, would God that I could
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  Speaker 1: have it? Just think? What a peace? What does it mean?
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  Speaker 1: It means this not only the peace that God gives. No,
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  Speaker 1: it is the peace of God himself. We read in
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  Speaker 1: the Hebrews that we must enter into the rest of God.
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  Speaker 1: God says they are not entered into my rest in
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  Speaker 1: Psalm ninety five, and Hebrews tells us they had not
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  Speaker 1: been brought into the real rest. But we which have believed,
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  Speaker 1: do enter into the rest of God, the rest of
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  Speaker 1: knowing that God has finished his work. God has cared
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  Speaker 1: for everything. I am a child of God. What a rest?
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  Speaker 1: The peace of God, that great calm in which God,
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  Speaker 1: ever dwells, can come down into my heart. God gives
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  Speaker 1: his holy presence, and with that presence the sense of
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  Speaker 1: His nearness and his love and his great peace. Don't
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  Speaker 1: separate the peace of God from God himself. God cannot
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  Speaker 1: give his peace the way I take a piece of
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  Speaker 1: money out of my pocket and give it away from me.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the light of the sun is always coming
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  Speaker 1: direct from the sun, and I must have the sun,
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  Speaker 1: then I can have the light. So it is with
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  Speaker 1: the peace of God. I must have God. And when
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  Speaker 1: I have God, then the peace of God as an
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  Speaker 1: outflow will keep my heart. Who wants to have the
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  Speaker 1: great Peace of God. God is a being of infinite
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  Speaker 1: stillness and rest, and a peace passing all understanding. The
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  Speaker 1: soul that really commits itself with every care to this
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  Speaker 1: God will have him in his perfect rest and peace.
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  Speaker 1: Take possession, beloved, You can have the presence of God
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  Speaker 1: every moment. And where the presence of God is, the
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  Speaker 1: great Peace of God is. The great Peace of God
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  Speaker 1: can be with you all day. How can I get it?
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  Speaker 1: Be anxious for nothing? Trust God, Meet God, and give
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  Speaker 1: up selfish desires into His bosom with thanksgiving, praise, and
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  Speaker 1: adore Him, and the Peace of God shall come and
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  Speaker 1: fill your heart and life. The fifth mark of the
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  Speaker 1: RESTful life is perfect safety. The word is a beautiful one.
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  Speaker 1: The peace of God shall guard your heart and mind.
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  Speaker 1: By Christ Jesus shall guard it, shall keep it. You
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  Speaker 1: had that word last night. Now unto him who is
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  Speaker 1: able to keep. How blessed to have heart and mind kept,
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  Speaker 1: I cannot keep them. The heart is always ready to
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  Speaker 1: wonder and get discouraged with its fears and perplexities. But
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  Speaker 1: in the great peace of God coming down to keep
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  Speaker 1: heart and mind, my whole nature may be kept. Through
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus, believers, I beseech you, by the mercies of God,
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  Speaker 1: to live this life of perfect rest. We have spoken
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  Speaker 1: to you about the Holy Spirit and his work, and
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  Speaker 1: Christ and his work revealed that He might bring us
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  Speaker 1: to God. And this text comes and says, after you
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  Speaker 1: have brought yourself, bring every anxiety too, and every desire
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  Speaker 1: unto the Living God, and leave it in his bosom.
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  Speaker 1: Be assured that as you reach out after God, he
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  Speaker 1: will send down the very peace of Heaven to keep
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  Speaker 1: your heart and mind in Christ Jesus, dear Christians. Is
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  Speaker 1: each one of us going to live in accordance with
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  Speaker 1: this blessed word? Ministers of the Gospel who have got
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  Speaker 1: to preach to others. I quoted the word yesterday. I
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  Speaker 1: am going to quote it again because it made such
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  Speaker 1: a strong, deep impression in my heart. The first duty
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  Speaker 1: of a clergyman is humbly to ask God that all
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  Speaker 1: he wants done in those whom He teaches may first
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  Speaker 1: be fully and truly done in himself. Brother ministers, have
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  Speaker 1: we the great Peace of God keeping our hearts and
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  Speaker 1: minds by Christ Jesus from morning to night, from Sunday
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  Speaker 1: to Saturday, in the pulpit, in the study, in the home,
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  Speaker 1: in society, in the street, in our whole life. If not,
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  Speaker 1: how can we preach it? God give every servant of
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  Speaker 1: His in the ministry such an experience of the great
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  Speaker 1: Peace of God ruling in his heart, that he may
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  Speaker 1: be able to preach it in the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Ask God to do so, and you workers,
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  Speaker 1: It is an easy thing to come and talk about
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  Speaker 1: the peace that has been made by the blood of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: We praise God for that peace. But there is something
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  Speaker 1: far deeper than that peace that was made by the
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  Speaker 1: blood of the Cross. There is life ever kept in
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  Speaker 1: the peace with God. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,
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  Speaker 1: whose mind is stayed upon thee Christian workers do pray.
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  Speaker 1: It is not the hurry, It is not the worry.
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  Speaker 1: It is not the study, not the running hither and thither,
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  Speaker 1: the much talking and much working that will have effect
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  Speaker 1: for eternity. But it is the great power of God.
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  Speaker 1: And God's power is revealed in the world, not in
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  Speaker 1: the earthquake so much, but in the still small voice.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Workers, students, come, Let us offer our hearts to
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  Speaker 1: God and ask him very humbly that his great peace
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  Speaker 1: may have perfect possession of us. And if we feel
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  Speaker 1: that we have not got it and it won't come,
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  Speaker 1: or that we have lost it, let us pray, listen,
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  Speaker 1: be anxious for nothing. Do go with every anxiety direct
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  Speaker 1: to God, with praise, prayer and thanksgiving. Praise Him for
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  Speaker 1: what He is going to do. But be anxious for nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Let every foreboding anxiety drive you to God. Christian Workers,
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  Speaker 1: let the great peace of God enter your hearts. To day,
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  Speaker 1: do walk as examples of men into whom God has
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  Speaker 1: poured his own peace. And let the humility and the lowliness,
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  Speaker 1: and the meekness and the gentleness of Jesus Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: Lamb of God, be the mark of your life. God
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  Speaker 1: help us to that. Amen.