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Never Give Up!
Answer to one discouraged by Satan in the Battle of Life:
No -- do not despair or give up. No sin
and no devil is stronger than your mighty Saviour and He will Never
let go of you if you don't let go of Him. Take it all to Him--tell Him
you are addicted-- ask Him to break the chains--He can and will!! Even
if you sort of don't feel willing to stop and you are having a hard
time to make that solid choice to quit and break free--do not
despair--tell Him you are willing to be made willing.
Brother--Jesus is real and He is not just
in a church somewhere or away in the past or away up in heaven--He is
by your side to be your personal one on one Saviour--Remember He
already won the victory--you just have to admit you are powerless and
fall at His feet--it is His own victory he gives you--freely.
He says-- Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Satan is trying to destroy you but don't
let him do it--he is a looser and Jesus is more than a match for him.
His trick is to discourage you so you give up. Don't give up because
Jesus has already won for you. You are alive and where there is life
there is hope--no sin is so bad Jesus won't forgive it--and He is
mighty to set you free--the greatest power in the universe is on your
side brother!! Grab your Bible and start reading--maybe the gospel of
John or something--every time you see a promise--underline it or write
it down and say--this is MINE--Jesus is saying this to me!! Because he
is--Mighty to Save!!
Satan is only too well pleased to harass
and destroy the souls of the young; therefore persons should be
connected with these who have wisdom to deal with tempted human minds.
The words of Jesus to Peter are appropriate, "Satan hath desired to
have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee
that thy faith fail not." Jesus rejoices in spirit when he sees Satan
repulsed from his commanding position to control the mind and will of
the human agent. Many a youth is in imminent peril through
manifold temptations, but Jesus Christ has the tenderest sympathy for
them, and the Lord has sent His angels to protect and guard them from
lives of wretchedness. Jesus Christ has purchased them,
paying the ransom money for their souls. They are His property. {19MR
329.4}
I need not present the self-denial, the self-sacrifice, the
humiliation, and crucifixion of the Son of God, which was the
redemption price of a lost world. This we need to contemplate that we
may better estimate the value of the human soul. As we view the
agonies which Christ endured as the price of redemption, we will
consider every soul of value. The love of Jesus for souls cannot be
measured. Christ died to save not only the few who accept Him; no,
He came to our world to save every son and daughter of Adam.
He came not to seek and save those who were faultless and lovely, but
He came to seek and to save them that are lost. "I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners to repentance." He is the true Shepherd,
ever ready to leave the flock which is in the fold and to go into the
wilderness to seek for the lost sheep. {19MR 330.1}
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool.
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