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We wait to see Thee, Lord, Yet now within our hearts Thou dwell’st in love that doth afford The joy that love imparts.Moses “sees Him who is invisible.” This makes him decided. When we realise the presence of God Pharaoh is nothing. … Where there is lack of communion there is weakness and indecision.
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There is no strength but in Christ. I have none at any time except as my soul is in secret communion with Him. … Now the direct power of Satan is towards this point, to keep our souls from living on Christ.
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One great thing we have to seek is that communion with Christ be as strong as all the doctrines we hold or teach. Without that the doctrine itself will have no force: besides, we ourselves shall not be with God in it, and, after all, that is all.
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God may make men as active as possible, like Paul or Boanerges, when He wants them; but communion is the most precious thing to Him. There is a difference between Peter and John. His heart rested with satisfaction on him who leaned on His bosom.
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There should be a going of the soul to God in a far more intimate way than to any one else. Communion with saints is precious, but I must have intimacy of communion with God above all; and communion of saints will flow from communion with God.
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Joy in God is communion … presenting a want to God is not communion. “God talked with Abraham,” “his friend”—that is communion.
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Communion with God is the retiring place of the heart.
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If living in communion with God we are not thinking of ourselves. Moses did not know his face shone when every one else did. He had been looking up out of himself and turned towards the earth, bearing upon him the light of heaven.
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None can be so intimately near us as God, for He is in us. Yet what an intimacy it is!
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The cross and the crown go together; and, more than this, the cross and communion go together. The cross touches my natural will, and therefore it breaks down and takes away that which hinders communion.
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If I am not in communion it is for the Holy Spirit to speak to my conscience, instead of using me.
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May our work be a work of faith, drawing its strength, its existence even, from our communion with God our Father.
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In speaking of God’s truth, whenever we cannot “speak as the oracles of God,” through communion, it is our business to be silent.
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I may study the word again and again, but unless I get into communion with Him by it, it will profit me nothing—at least at the time.
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What is
the joy
of a Redeemer but the joy and communion, the happiness
of His redeemed? Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the
Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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