Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of LoveWheaton, Elizabeth Ryder
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Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love
Wheaton, Elizabeth Ryder
Evangelistic work; Prisons
Brother, isn't there in your breast at times an awful aching
void? Aren't there times when after trying every pleasure and
amusement the world affords, you just quietly sit down all alone
before God, and realize that it is all in vain? These things
don't satisfy; and there down deep in your heart is a longing
that is never satisfied, a hungering for something that will give
you complete joy and peace, and soul rest. Brother, there is only
one thing that will give you this complete rest, and satisfy
every longing of your heart, and that is salvation from sin.
Jesus died on the cross that you might be free from sin and live
through all the ages of eternity with Him in heaven. "If we
forsake our sins he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and
cleanse us from all unrighteousness." If we do the forsaking He
will do the forgiving, and then through His atoning blood we
become new creatures, and after we have received the clear
witness that we are adopted into the family of God and can truly
call Him Father, if we feel angry at times or have some desire
for the world and the things of it, we can come to Him again and
completely abandon ourselves to Him, our will, our life, our
desires, our time, our talents to be used for His glory, then He
will baptize us with the Holy Ghost and power so that it becomes
a pleasure to do right and all evil becomes distasteful to us. By
the power of the Holy Ghost He cleanses our hearts, and the
Comforter which is the Holy Ghost takes up His abode in us,
sanctifying us, causing us to live pure, holy lives. We railroad
men whose lives are in danger at all times should be prepared to
meet God, for one minute we are here and the next we may be
standing at the judgment bar of God to answer for deeds done here
on earth. Dear reader, are you prepared to do that? If not, make
this the time that you will settle this forever by giving your
heart to God, then if this little flame of life is snuffed out
you will be borne on angel's wings onward and upward through the
gates of pearl, over the golden paved streets of the New
Jerusalem up to the great white throne where you will see Jesus
in all His glory and majesty and hear Him say to you, "Well done,
enter thou into the joy of the Lord."
Let me tell you, brother, when the Lord saved me and gave me such
sweet joy and peace I told Him that I would never use beer or
tobacco in any form, for I knew it was displeasing to Him, for He
says, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you?" (1 Cor. 6:19). "If any man defile the
temple of God, him shall God destroy" (1 Cor. 3:17). "Cleanse
ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit" (2 Cor.
7:1).
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