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The Blessings of the Sabbath Services

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some
is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day
approaching. Heb. 10:25.

Bring your choicest gifts to God on His holy day. Let the precious life of
the soul be given to Him in consecrated service. . . .

Everyone should feel that he has a part to act in making the Sabbath
meetings interesting. You are not to come together simply as a matter of
form, but for the interchange of thought, for the relation of your daily
experiences, for the expression of thanksgiving, for the utterance of your
sincere desire for divine enlightenment, that you may know God, and Jesus
Christ, whom He has sent. Communing together in regard to Christ will
strengthen the soul for life's trials and conflicts. Never think that you
can be Christians and yet withdraw yourselves within yourselves. Each one is
a part of the great web of humanity, and the experience of each will be
largely determined by the experience of his associates.

Why do we not obtain a hundredth part of the blessing we should obtain from
assembling together to worship God? Our perceptive faculties need
sharpening. Fellowship with one another should make us glad. With such a
hope as we have, why are not our hearts all aglow with the love of God?

We must carry to every religious gathering a quickened spiritual
consciousness that God and His angels are there, cooperating with all true
worshipers. As you enter the place of worship, ask the Lord to remove all
evil from your heart. Bring to His house only that which He can bless. Kneel
before God in His temple, and consecrate to Him His own, which He has
purchased with the blood of Christ. Pray for the speaker or the leader of
the meeting. Pray that great blessing may come through the one who is to
hold forth the word of life. Strive earnestly to lay hold of a blessing for
yourself.

God will bless all who thus prepare themselves for His service. They will
understand what it means to have the assurance of the Spirit because they
have received Christ by faith.

The place of worship may be very humble, but it is no less acknowledged by
God. To those who worship God in spirit and in truth and in the beauty of
holiness it will be as the gate of heaven. The company of believers may be
few in number, but in God's sight they are very precious. By the cleaver of
truth they have been taken as rough stones from the quarry of the world and
have been brought into the workshop of God to be hewed and shaped. But even
in the rough they are precious in the sight of God. The ax, the hammer, and
the chisel of trial are in the hands of One who is skillful; they are used,
not to destroy, but to work out the perfection of every soul (Testimonies,
vol. 6, pp. 361-363).

>From Lift Him Up - Page 303

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