Jesus, our Lord, we Thee adore. Oh, make us love Thee more and more.
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God at Eventide - Peter's Example. - October 10
Extra Work. - October 10
Our Lord and our God. Help us through poverty to plenty. Through unrest to rest, through sorrow to Joy, through weakness to Power.
I am your Helper. At the end of your present path lie all these blessings. So trust and know that I am leading you.
Step, with a firm step of confidence in Me, into each unknown day. Take every duty and every interruption as of My appointment.
You are My servant. Serve Me as simply, cheerfully and readily as you expect others to serve you.
Do you blame the servant who avoids extra work, who complains about being called from one task, to do one less liked? Do you feel you are ill served by such an one?
Then what of Me? Is not that, how you so often serve Me? Think of this. Lay it to heart and view your day's work in this light.
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Shame and Distress. - October 11
I will bless the Lord at all times. His Praise shall continually be in my mouth.
I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all fears.
They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. - Psalm 34:1, 4, 5.
See, My children, that even in distress, the first step is Praise. Before you cry in your distress, bless the Lord; even when troubles seem to overwhelm you.
That is My Divine order of approach. Observe this always. In the greatest distress, search until you find cause for thankfulness. Then bless and thank.
You have thus established a line of communication between yourself and Me. Along that line let your cry of distress follow.
Thus you will find I do My part, and deliverance will be sure. Oh! the gladness of heart. Lightened you will be, the burden rolled away, as the result of looking to Me.
The shame and distress will be lifted too. That is always the second step. First right with Me, and then you will be righted too in the eyes of men.
Love is the great power of understanding. Love explains all, makes all clear.
How can you understand Me unless you love Me? How can men see My purposes unless they love Me?
Love is indeed the fulfilling of The Law. It is also the understanding of The Law.
Therefore love. Love Me first. Then love all, and so you link them to Me.
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God at Eventide - Eyes of the Spirit. - October 12
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God Calling - You are My Joy. - October 12
Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me; and they have kept Thy Word. - John 17:6
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God at Eventide - Stories in the Bud. - October 13
Can you show to others My patience to you.
Can you, too, give to others freely, while you claim My unrestricted Bounty? Meditate on this.
God Calling.
The Sculptor's Skill. - October 13 Lord, we believe, help Thou our unbelief. Lord, hear our prayers and let our cries come unto Thee. Along the road of praise, as I told you. Yes! I will indeed help your unbelief, and in answer to your prayers grant you so great a faith, such an increasingly great faith, that each day you may look back, from the place of your larger vision, and see the faith of the day before as almost unbelief. The Beauty of My Kingdom is its growth. In that Kingdom there is always progress, a going on from strength to strength, from glory to glory. Be in My Kingdom, and of My Kingdom, and there can be no stagnation. Eternal Life, abundant Life, is promised to all in it, and of it. No mis-spent time over failures and shortcomings. Count the lessons learnt from them only as rungs in the ladder. Step up, and then cast away all thought of the manner of the making of the rung. Fashioned of joy or sorrow, of failure or success, of wounds or healing balm, what matter, My children, so long as it served its purpose? Learn another lesson. The Sculptor who finds a faulty marble casts it aside. Because it has no fashioning, it may regard itself as perfect; and it may look with scorn upon the marble the Sculptor is cutting and shaping into perfection. From this, My children, learn a lesson for your lives.
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The Sacrifice. - October 14
Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. - John 1:29."Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." I am the Lamb of God. Lay upon Me your sins, your failures, your shortcomings. My sacrifice has atoned for all. I am the mediator between God and Man: the Man Christ Jesus. Do not dwell upon the past. You make My Sacrifice of none effect. No! realize that in Me you have all, complete forgiveness, complete companionship, complete healing, if you keep My Commandments.
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Receptivity. - October 14
Only those in close touch with Me, inspired by My Spirit, infected by My Love, impregnated with My Strength, retain a resilience of being and receptivity to new Truth. The child heart that I enjoined upon My followers is ever ready to be renewed, is ever responsive to all that is prepared for "the new creature in Christ Jesus."
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The Way of the Lord. - October 15
In many cases a loving hand of help may be needed before the ground is ready for Me, The Sower.
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In Step. - October 16
"Keep pace with us," the world says as it rushes by.
But there is One Who knows no feverish haste. He walks with you. Be not afraid.
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God at Eventide - See Clearly. - October 17
Then will you see clearly how to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye. This is a promise.
You note the fault of another. You long to help.
You need the Spirit-inspired vision for this work. That cannot be granted until all obstruction is removed. Obstructions are caused not by the sins of others but by your own sins and imperfections.
So look within. Seek to conquer those, and so to gain the Spiritual insight which will enable you to help your brother. My Promises are always kept.
God Calling 
Faith-Vision. - October 17 
Turn your eyes to behold Me. Look away from sordid surroundings, from lack of beauty, from the imperfections in yourselves and those around you. Then you who have the Faith-Vision will see all you could and do desire, in Me.
In your unrest behold My calm, My rest. In your impatience, My unfailing patience. In your lack and limitation, My Perfection.
Looking at Me you will grow like Me, until men say of you, too, that you have been with Jesus.
As you grow like Me you will be enabled to do the things I do, and greater works than these shall ye do, because I go unto My Father.
From that place of abiding, limited by none of humanity's limitations, I can endue you with the all-conquering, all miracle-working Power of your Divine Brother and Ally.
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God at Eventide - Grace that Transfigures. - October 18
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God at Eventide
Loneliness. - October 18
And they all forsook Him and fled. - Mark 14:50.
Down through the ages all the simple acts of steadfast devotion, of obedience in difficulty, of loving service, have been taken by Me as an atonement for the loneliness My humanity suffered by that desertion.
Yet I, who had realized to the full the longing of the Father to save, and His rejection by men, the mis-understanding of His mind and purpose, how could I think that I should not know that desertion too?
Learn, My children, from these words two lessons. Learn first that I know what loneliness, desertion and solitude mean. Learn that every act of yours of faithfulness is a comfort to My Heart. Learn too that it was to those deserters I gave the task of bringing My Message to mankind. To those deserters, those fearful ones, I gave My Power to heal, to raise to life.
Earth's successes are not the ones I use for the great work of My Kingdom. "They all forsook Him and fled." Learn My tender understanding and pardon of human frailty. Not until man has failed has he learnt true humility. And it is only the humble who can inherit the Earth.
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