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Hi Everybody!
This next chapter sounds familiar.. 😉 Continuing our journey in: the Desire of Ages This week we shall read.. 40. A Night on the Lake 📖 http://www.ellenwhite.info/books/ellen-g-white-book-desire-of-ages-da-40.htm May you be blessed by the lessons God has prepared for you this day ..every day! Blessings, Lani. What’s your favourite quotes?
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Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:11:16 am
I found this chapter quite an interesting read: the great controversy is very real before ones eyes, reading the to and fro of the disciples hearts.To mention just a few quotes now, the battle is evident.. 📚 They recognize in Him a power above all earthly authority, and without a question they submit. DA 378.4 ... 📚 They reasoned that if they had been more persistent they might have accomplished their purpose. DA 379.2 ... 📚 As a mother in tender love watches her child, so the compassionate Master watched His disciples. When their hearts were subdued, their unholy ambition quelled, and in humility they prayed for help, it was given them. DA 381.1 ... 📚 The One who has come for their help they count as an enemy. DA 381.2 ... 📚 He had no reason to boast over his fellows, for through unbelief and self-exaltation he had very nearly lost his life. When he turned his eyes from Jesus, his footing was lost, and he sank amid the waves. DA 381.6 ... Does this sound all to familiar to you too?? James 1:6 🙏 much prayer needed.. #praiseGod! that He is faithful 👑
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:16:11 am
Following are some other quotes that I liked from the fortieth chapter: A Night on the Lake..
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:18:48 am
📚 When left alone, Jesus “went up into a mountain apart to pray.” For hours He continued pleading with God. Not for Himself but for men were those prayers. He prayed for power to reveal to men the divine character of His mission, that Satan might not blind their understanding and pervert their judgment.The Saviour knew that His days of personal ministry on earth were nearly ended, and that few would receive Him as their Redeemer. In travail and conflict of soul He prayed for His disciples. They were to be grievously tried. Their long-cherished hopes, based on a popular delusion, were to be disappointed in a most painful and humiliating manner. In the place of His exaltation to the throne of David they were to witness His crucifixion. This was to be indeed His true coronation. But they did not discern this, and in consequence strong temptations would come to them, which it would be difficult for them to recognize as temptations. Without the Holy Spirit to enlighten the mind and enlarge the comprehension the faith of the disciples would fail. It was painful to Jesus that their conceptions of His kingdom were, to so great a degree, limited to worldly aggrandizement and honor. For them the burden was heavy upon His heart, and He poured out His supplications with bitter agony and tears. DA 379.1
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:22:47 am
📚 Unbelief was taking possession of their minds and hearts. Love of honor had blinded them. They knew that Jesus was hated by the Pharisees, and they were eager to see Him exalted as they thought He should be. To be united with a teacher who could work mighty miracles, and yet to be reviled as deceivers, was a trial they could ill endure. Were they always to be accounted followers of a false prophet? Would Christ never assert His authority as king? Why did not He who possessed such power reveal Himself in His true character, and make their way less painful? Why had He not saved John the Baptist from a violent death? Thus the disciples reasoned until they brought upon themselves great spiritual darkness. They questioned, Could Jesus be an impostor, as the Pharisees asserted? DA 380.1
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:25:19 am
📚 The disciples had that day witnessed the wonderful works of Christ. It had seemed that heaven had come down to the earth. The memory of that precious, glorious day should have filled them with faith and hope. Had they, out of the abundance of their hearts, been conversing together in regard to these things, they would not have entered into temptation. But their disappointment had absorbed their thoughts. The words of Christ, “Gather up the fragments, ... that nothing be lost,” were unheeded. Those were hours of large blessing to the disciples, but they had forgotten it all. They were in the midst of troubled waters. Their thoughts were stormy and unreasonable, and the Lord gave them something else to afflict their souls and occupy their minds. God often does this when men create burdens and troubles for themselves. DA 380.2
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:29:14 am
📚 When trouble comes upon us, how often we are like Peter! We look upon the waves, instead of keeping our eyes fixed upon the Saviour. Our footsteps slide, and the proud waters go over our souls. Jesus did not bid Peter come to Him that he should perish; He does not call us to follow Him, and then forsake us. “Fear not,” He says; “for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.” Isaiah 43:1-3. DA 382.1
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:31:53 am
📚 Amid the storms of temptation he could walk safely only as in utter self-distrust he should rely upon the Saviour. It was on the point where he thought himself strong that Peter was weak; and not until he discerned his weakness could he realize his need of dependence upon Christ. DA 382.2
Lani Sret
5/4/2018 11:34:57 am
📚 Those who fail to realize their constant dependence upon God will be overcome by temptation. We may now suppose that our feet stand secure, and that we shall never be moved. We may say with confidence, “I know in whom I have believed; nothing can shake my faith in God and in His word.” But Satan is planning to take advantage of our hereditary and cultivated traits of character, and to blind our eyes to our own necessities and defects. Only through realizing our own weakness and looking steadfastly unto Jesus can we walk securely. DA 382.4 Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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