• “But the misfortune is that people wish to direct God instead of resigning themselves to be directed by Him. We wish to take the lead, and to follow in a way of their own selection instead of submissively and passively following where God sees fit to conduct them. And hence it is, that many souls who are called to the enjoyment of God himself and mot merely to the gifts of God, spend all their lives in pursuing and in feeding on little consolations.” – Madame Guyon

Joy and Strength 01/26

That ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understandings that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing.
Col. i. 9, 10.

Something for Thee! Lord, let this be
Thy choice for me from day to day;
The life I live it is not mine,
Thy will, my will, have made it Thine!
Oh, let me do in Thine own way Something for Thee!
Elizabeth Prentiss.

ACT faithfully according to thy degree of light, and what God giveth thee to see; and thou shalt see more clearly. Hearken to the low whispers of His voice within thee, and thou shalt hear more distinctly. Above all, do not stifle any motions of conscience. Meditate daily on the things of Eternity ; and, by the grace of God, do something daily which thou wouldest wish to have done when that day Cometh. Above all things, in all things, ” look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of thy faith.” If thou failest, look to Him to uphold thee; if thou stumblest, hold swift His hand to help thee; if thou failest, lie not hopelessly there, but look to Him to raise thee; if, by His grace, thou doest well, look to Him in thanksgiving, that He has helped thee, and pray that thou mayest do better.
Edward B. Pusey.

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  • “My soul was filled and overwhelmed with light, and love, and joy in the Holy Ghost, and seemed just ready to go away from the body. I could scarcely refrain from expressing my joy aloud, in the midst of the service. I had in the mean time, an overwhelming sense of the glory of God, as the Great Eternal All, and of the happiness of having my own will entirely subdued to his will. I knew that the foretaste of glory, which I then had in my soul, came from him, that I certainly should go to him, and should, as it were, drop into the Divine Being, and be swallowed up in God.” – Sarah Edwards, wife of Jonathan Edwards

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For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God.” — Romans 14:11 (NKJV)

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