Feb 26 2020
MID-WEEK MESSAGE FROM YOUR UNCLE NAT’S DESK:
ONLY SAFETY: LIVE LIKE A WATCHMAN!
“Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” Eph. 6:18, KJV.
“Praying and watching there unto are necessary for advancement in the divine life. Your only safety is to live like a watchman. Watch and pray always. Oh, what a preventive against yielding to temptation and falling into the snares of the world! WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR: Mark 13:33. First you are to watch. WATCH lest you speak hastily, fretfully and impatiently.
WATCH, lest evil passions should overcome you, instead of your subduing them. WATCH, lest you become light and trifling [petty; see also Eph. 5:4] and your influence savor of death unto death, rather than life unto life. . . . Faint not.
Cast yourself at the feet of Jesus, who has been tempted, and knows how to help such as are tempted [Heb 2:18]. Plead your case before God, through Jesus, until your soul can with confidence rely upon Him for strength, and you feel that you are not left to do the work of overcoming alone. God will help you.
Angels will WATCH over you. But BEFORE you can expect this help, you must DO what you can in your part. [“But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” James 1:23]. Watch and pray!” FILB 224. This is one prescribed way to “overcome even as He overcame.” Rev. 3:21. NMF