From the Hand of Jesus: My Testimony - 11/10/00 04:39 AM
The next morning – the very next morning – I received the following forwarded story in my e-mail:
The next morning – the very next morning – I received the following forwarded story in my e-mail:
"We've sought marriage counselors; we've been everywhere and done everything we can think of to save our marriage. This little baby," motioning to the sleeping child on her lap, "was our last effort toweld our family together; but it hasn't worked. There's nothing to do but to break up our home." I prayed with her and she returned to her tent. During the next three days she continued to come for counseling, and each time she revealed more details of the family's problem. Finally, on Thursday, she said "I wish there was something that could be done."
"Are you ready to break your home up?" I asked.
"No," she said. "I'm really not."
"Are you willing to pay any price to hold it together?" I questioned.
"I think so." She hesitated to answer.
"I want to give you something," I said as I handed her a card on which I had printed a helpful quotation. "I believe what is written on this card is the most potent paragraph in the entire writings of Ellen G. White. I've seen it work miracles in homes; I've seen it save lives; I've even seen it weld families back together even after there's been a divorce. It reads this way. . . "
"The Father's presence encircled Christ, and nothing befell Him but that which infinite love permitted for the blessing of the world. Here was His source of comfort, and it is for us. He who is imbued with the Spirit of Christ, abides in Christ. The blow that is aimed at him falls upon the Savior who surrounds him with his presence. Whatever comes to him comes from Christ. He has no need to resist evil for Christ is his defense. Nothing can touch him except by our Lord's permission, and `all things' that are permitted `work together for good to them thatlove God.'"
---Ellen White, Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 71
(Romans 8:28)
But then, after about three months something began to change." She paused, smiling wryly at the reflection, then continued, "I'm not sure yet whether it was in me or in him. But something began to change. "After another three months had passed, we were enjoying the sweetest relationship we'd ever had in our married life. We had never
experienced anything like this. Why, everything was just as though heaven had opened up. But I knew the devil wasn't going to let this last very long."
And even better, shortly after my son confided in me, this same relative surrendered his own will to God, after resisting for many years, and he has been different since then. This story isn’t over yet, but I know that God is working in it, and I expect that He will gain the victory in all of our lives.
Cathy
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The Lord is the strength of my life and my portion forever.
"The Father's presence encircled Christ, and nothing befell Him but that which infinite love permitted for the blessing of the world. Here was His source of comfort, and it is for us. He who is imbued with the Spirit of Christ, abides in Christ. The blow that is aimed at him falls upon the Savior who surrounds him with his presence. Whatever comes to him comes from Christ. He has no need to resist evil for Christ is his defense. Nothing can touch him except by our Lord's permission, and `all things' that are permitted `work together for good to them that love God.'"
---Ellen White, Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 71
(Romans 8:28)
This passage from Mount of Blessing applied will heal every person on Earth who uses it, SDA or not. The Bible is full of kindred facets of this teaching & it is the Love of this kind that is the basis of true Godliness .
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God , and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Ephesians 3:
14 ¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Thank you for posting it. I intend to drink this in and apply it once again, my self.
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Edward F. Sutton