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Daily Text
A righteous man’s supplication when it is at work has much force. —Jas. 5:16, NW.
Prayer works in cases of spiritual sickness. But are we not also privileged to pray to God in our physical sickness and speak to him about it? Yes, we are. But we are not to pray for divine healing. The day for that is past. That gift of the spirit passed away with the decease of the apostles and their immediate associates. Furthermore, this miraculous healing was to be a sign to outsiders and to be performed upon them. It was not to be used for the selfish comfort of the faithful believers. True Christians, the servants of Jehovah God, do get physically sick. His own Word testifies to that. The apostle Paul had some physical affliction, which he likened to a “thorn in the flesh”. Did he pray about it? Or, so highly gifted as he was, did he miraculously pluck this thorn out of his flesh himself, or did God do it for him with divine power? No. Instead, the Lord assured him his loving-kindness was sufficient for him. W 5/1
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IS THERE A TRINITY?
A FUNDAMENTAL doctrine of so-called "Christendom" is that known as the "Holy Trinity". It is accepted as Scriptural truth and held sacred by millions of persons . The doctrine, in brief, is that there are three gods in one : "God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost," all three equal ...
