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When God Makes Up Deficiencies

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When God Makes Up Deficiencies

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 Corinthians 6:1.

We are to be partners in the work of God throughout the world; wherever there are souls to be saved, we are to lend our help, that many sons and daughters may be brought to God. The end is near, and for this reason we are to make the most of every entrusted ability and every agency that shall offer help to the work. . . .

How the angels must feel as they see the end approaching, and see so many of those entrusted with the last message of mercy huddling together, attending meetings for the sake of benefit to their own souls, and feeling dissatisfied if there is not much preaching, while they have little burden and are doing little for the salvation of others. All who are indeed united to Christ by living faith will be partakers of the divine nature. They will be constantly receiving from Him spiritual life, and they cannot be silent.

Life always shows itself in action. If the heart is living, it will send the lifeblood to every part of the body. Those whose hearts are filled with spiritual life will not need to be urged to reveal it. The divine life will flow forth from them in rich currents of grace. As they pray, as they speak, and as they labor, God is glorified. . . . {Mar 115.3}

It is not the most brilliant or the most talented whose work produces the greatest and most lasting results. Who are the most efficient laborers? Those who will respond to the invitation: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart."

If men to whom God has entrusted talents of intellect refuse to use these gifts to His glory, after test and trial He will leave them to their own imaginings and will take men who do not appear to be so richly endowed, who have not large self-confidence, and He will make the weak strong because they trust in God to do for them those things which they cannot do for themselves. God will accept the wholehearted service, and will Himself make up the deficiencies.

Angels are listening to hear what kind of report you are bearing to the world about your heavenly Master.

Maranatha p. 115

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Prayer Requests

February 8---Please help me pray that the Lord will be with me and help me threw a very difficult situation. After many years of taking medication I have quit, and I really need the Lord to Bless me and guide me threw this. I also pray that He will give me a new heart. THE LORD IS SO GOOD ! I PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME !.......BG

February 8---Pray for my marriage and for my husband. Joann

February 8---Next Tuesday, February 12, 2008, is a historic day. For the first time in a generation, a representative of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will be testifying before Congress in support of the rights of Sabbath keepers and other people of faith in the workplace. . . . First and foremost, we earnestly seek your prayers. . . . Second, and very importantly, we need to raise our voice to Congress like we've never done before. Send your letters now at www.religiousliberty.info . There's even a letter there already written for you to use. If you prefer, you can write your own letter on the site and have it sent. . . . Indeed, as Congress has worked to give rights to many groups in the workplace, it has left Sabbath keepers and other people of faith far behind. Today, the ACLU and its friends on the fringes are working tirelessly to ensure that the Workplace Religious Freedom Act is defeated. We cannot let them remain unchallenged. . . . I want you to know that your religious liberty team is doing all we can here in the nation's capital and across this great land to ensure the promise of religious liberty is a reality for our members, and for all other people of faith. But, friends, we cannot do it alone. Please uplift us in your prayers. And please send your letters now from www.religiousliberty.info . This is our opportunity. By the grace of God, let's seize it. [sent in by Mary]

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Dear Friends,

When Eileen was seven, we were in a store looking at baby clothes, since it would not be long before Ronnie Jay would be born. The clerk , smiling, said to Eileen, "It looks like you will soon be a big sister! Isn't that wonderful?"

Eileen said, "Yes! I prayed and prayed for a baby and finally Jesus said, 'Oh, all right! You can have one.' " Both the clerk and I had a hard time holding in our

laughter.

Later, as I reflected upon what my daughter had said, I wondered how many times I had said with exasperation in my voice, “Oh, all right. You can have one.” in answer to her constant begging for something. From that moment I determined that I would not give in to her pleading because I had been inadvertently giving her a wrong idea about prayer and how and why God answers. From then on, I was more careful to explain why I could or could not grant her requests.

Over the years had many conversations with my children explaining that God answers our prayers even when they seem to go unanswered. He knows far better than we do what is best for us. Jesus assures us, "your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him." "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." Matt 6:8; Luke 11:9,10 At first that seems like we will get anything we desire, but that is not the case. Our dear Saviour tells us the conditions for answered prayer, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." John 15:7

The apostle John adds an additional qualifier to answered prayer. “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” 1 John 5:14, 15 James gives us another reason why we do not always get what we ask for, "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." James 4:3 What a wonderful Heavenly Father we have! He listens to our prayers and weighs each request. Then He gives us an answer that is better than we could ask or think. It may not seem best in our finite judgment but could we see the end from the beginning, we would choose the same. May we have perfect trust and confidence in the answers God gives us to our prayers even if they are not the answers we expect.

Rose

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