All creation, including you, was made for the sole purpose of bringing pleasure to God. Pleasing God must be the goal of our lives; it should be the greatest, if not the only ambition of our existence. For that to happen, we must be so yielded to Him that His thoughts become our thoughts, and His will our will. Yet this cannot happen without His help. As Evan Roberts, the leader of the Welsh Revival of 1904-5 said,we must pray to God saying, “Bend me! Bend me!” That means we should ask God to make our hearts pliable and tender towards Him.
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Months later, I sat pondering this dream. Alarmingly, certain events and conditions in the church had already seemed to parallel what I had seen when the hordes from hell began to march. I was then reminded of Abraham Lincoln. The only way he could become a great emancipator and the preserver of the Union was to be willing to fight a Civil War. Not only did he have to fight it, but he had to be determined not to compromise until the victory was complete.
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