Promise of Divine Help

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for September 4
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Promise of Divine Help

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what
ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour
what ye shall speak. Matt. 10:19. 


The servants of Christ are to prepare no set speech to
present when brought to trial for their faith. Their
preparation is to be made day by day, in treasuring up in
their hearts the precious truths of God's Word, in feeding
upon the teaching of Christ, and through prayer
strengthening their faith; then, when brought into trial,
the Holy Spirit will bring to their remembrance the very
truths that will reach the hearts of those who shall come
to hear. God will flash the knowledge obtained by diligent
searching of the Scriptures, into their memory at the very
time when it is needed. 

You are now to get ready for the time of trial. Now you are
to know whether your feet are planted on the Eternal Rock.
You must have an individual experience, and not depend upon
others for your light. When you are brought to the test,
how do you know that you will not be alone, with no earthly
friend at your side? Will you then be able to realize that
Christ is your support? Will you be able to recall the
promise, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world"? There will be invisible ones all about you bent
upon your destruction. Satan and his agents will seek in
every way to make you waver from your steadfastness to God
and His truth. But if you have an eye single to His glory,
you need not take thought as to how you shall witness for
His truth. 

Young men and women, are you growing up to the full stature
of men and women in Christ, so that when the crisis comes,
you cannot be separated from the Source of your strength?
If we would stand during the time of test, we must now, in
the time of peace, be gaining a living experience in the
things of God. We must now learn to understand what are the
deep movings of the Spirit of God. Christ must be our all
and in all, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last,
the beginning and the end.

>From Maranatha - Page 255