Testimonies for the Church, Volume 9 - Ellen G. White

you will be carrying out the Lord's purposes.
In your study of the word of God, penetrate
deeper and still deeper beneath the surface. Lay
hold by faith on divine power and sound the depths
of inspiration. Bring into your ministry the power
of God, remembering that the Lord is behind you.
Let His love shine through all you do and say. Let
the truth, the precious, simple truth of the word of
God, shine out in full brightness. Humble self
before God. Christ will be your efficiency. He has
appointed you as rulers over His household, to give
meat in due season. Christ's laborers are very near
His heart of love. He desires to perfect His
household through the perfection of His ministers.
Christ is the sympathetic, compassionate
Redeemer. In His sustaining power, men and
women become strong to resist evil. As the
convicted sinner looks at sin, it becomes to him
exceeding sinful. He wonders that he did not come
to Christ before. He sees that his faults must be
overcome and that his appetites and passions must
be subjected to God's will, that he must be a
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