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Day 7 - Mon, September 16, 2024
Weak Souls Strengthened
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live
after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live. Romans 8:12, 13.
The promise of the Holy Spirit is not limited to any age or to any race. Christ declared that the
divine influence of His Spirit was to be with His followers unto the end. From the day of Pentecost
to the present time, the Comforter has been sent to all who have yielded themselves fully to the
Lord and to His service. To all who have accepted Christ as a personal Saviour, the Holy Spirit has
come as a counselor, sanctifier, guide, and witness. The more closely believers have walked with
God, the more clearly and powerfully have they testified of their Redeemer’s love and of His saving
grace. The men and women who through the long centuries of persecution and trial enjoyed a large
measure of the presence of the Spirit in their lives have stood as signs and wonders in the world.
Before angels and men they have revealed the transforming power of redeeming love.
Those who at Pentecost were endued with power from on high, were not thereby freed from further
temptation and trial. As they witnessed for truth and righteousness they were repeatedly assailed
by the enemy of all truth, who sought to rob them of their Christian experience. They were
compelled to strive with all their God-given powers to reach the measure of the stature of men and
women in Christ Jesus. Daily they prayed for fresh supplies of grace, that they might reach higher
and still higher toward perfection. Under the Holy Spirit’s working even the weakest, by exercising
faith in God, learned to improve their entrusted powers and to become sanctified, refined, and
ennobled. As in humility they submitted to the molding influence of the Holy Spirit, they received
of the fullness of the Godhead and were fashioned in the likeness of the divine.— The Acts of the
Apostles, 49, 50.⁷