Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit, bought with a price and belonging to God, which calls for respecting His presence and power within. It emphasizes that our bodies, including our hands, are to be consecrated and dedicated to God's service, not just in grand ministries but in everyday tasks. By yielding our lives to the indwelling Spirit, we are empowered to live the Christian life, recognizing that true Christian living is not by our own effort but by His life within us. The message concludes by urging believers to willingly offer their entire selves—mind, eyes, ears, hands, and feet—to God's purposes, recognizing that this service is personal, pressing, possible, precious, practical, present, and paramount, all for His glory.
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real joy having you here again this morning and we do trust the Lord will continue to bless you you have been entering into the singing and you've been singing so wonderfully well and I believe you've made that from your heart you've been singing peace another joy knowing it is well with ourselves so we're going to continue our theme this morning and the body the temple of the Holy Spirit remember that as Christians We are the child of God, the heir of God, redeemed by his precious blood, so we are no longer our own, we belong to him. Then remember we are an influence, we are soldiers, and now we are temples.
Another joy being the temple of the Holy Spirit. Then it says in one Corinthians chapter six, verses nineteen and twenty, What know ye not, your body is at the table of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have of God. You are not your own, for ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God. So recognizing this fact this morning, what an honor, what a privilege, yet one or more remarkable responsibility to recognize your body, my body, this tabernacle, is a dwelling place of God himself.
Oh, to recognize his presence and to respect his person and to receive his power. Our brethren, we will present this morning in Thanksgiving and in prayer reminded us that as we yield our life entirely to the indwelling spirit, so he fills us, so he controls us, so he empowers us, and he energizes us day by day. In ourselves we cannot live this Christian life. Thank God it's not my trying or my struggling, it's a great joy of recognizing that he himself is the life of our life.
For that before your heart, let us turn this morning to the next letter, and there is the palm. P. Palm, and I want to give you that. One Chronicles chapter twenty-nine. One Chronicles and the twenty-ninth chapter. Going back again to the Old Testament. Hmm. Hmm. We've been thinking of the temple, our tongue, our eyes. Last night we followed the mind. This morning I want to finish this theme, if I may, on the palms, our hands.
One Chronicles twenty-nine and verse number two. Yeah, look at verse number one. Right in the middle of the verse, Solomon, my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great. Now verse two, now I have prepared with all my might. Verse number three. Moreover, because I set my affection to. Verse three, in the middle of the verse, I have given to.
Three thoughts. I have prepared with all my might. I have sent my affection to. Then I have given to. That is always the outcome. That when we prepare with all our might and our affection is centered without any shadow of a doubt there shall be the giving. Now that takes me straight away to verse five. In the very last sentence. Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord? Now, if you've got a margin in your Bible, know this. Against the word to consecrate, you have the words to fill his hand.
To fill his hand. Keep your finger there and go back with me for a moment, will you? To exodus. and verse chapter twenty four and verse number two. Exodus four and verse number two. Remember how the gods of Jehovah said to Moses, What is that in thine hand? What is that in thine hand?
Now let's go back to one Chronicles twenty-nine. Now remember we're looking at the various members of our body as though to be controlled by the Holy Spirit himself, to know him thinking through our mind, willing through our will, looking with compassion out through our eyes, And now this morning working through our hands. What is that in thine hand? There are some people about the idea that when they surrender their whole life to the Lord Jesus, unreservedly and unconditionally, and they allow this good of God to take over in their lives, they go to descend to some far-off land.
Well, he may do that. But that's... Brush, put it into his hand, and he through your hand and through your mind, he's going to use that for his own glory. Mrs. Billy Gray, if I may be allowed to refer to that, dear sisters, has over the kitchen sink these words, divine service conducted here three times daily, where at the kitchen sink? Now it's a wonderful thing, my friend, to be a hobby term, a full-time ministry. But I want you to recognize, dear child of God, your work at the kitchen sink, the work in the office, the work as the gardener, the handyman, and remember Brother Lawrence, in practicing the presence of Christ.
He was just as happy, my friend, washing up the pots and pans there, that I'm referring to the monk. who yielded his whole life to the Lord as he was there in the sanctuary in prayer, as he stood there washing up the dishes at the kitchen sink, he was just so conscious he practiced the presence of the Lord with him. You remember too that when David recognized the Lord's presence with him, It says, And David behaved himself wisely, yea, more wisely, and Saul recognized the Lord was with David. And as we day by day seek to practice and acknowledge the Lord's presence with us, it brings a corresponding peace, a corresponding joy, an energy, an encouragement.
and nothing else can possibly give us. So what I'm trying to get across to you is this. We are utterly all, in this study, the one to the other and to our adorable Lord Jesus. But he's saying, what is there in your hand? You may be a motor mechanic, but remember you can do that work with a single eye to God's glory, just as much as you might stand here this morning and seeking to administer his word. What is that in thy hand? Now are you willing to consecrate that? Are you willing to dedicate that to his praise and to his service? Notice this word again.
Who then is willing this day to consecrate? I want to give you one or two thoughts, maybe a blessing to you here, in connection with the filling of the hand. First of all, notice this. the filling of the hand for God. Now I want to suggest some of you write here that if he is not Lord of all, then he is not Lord at all. Now you think that one true. Sometimes we sing about him as Lord, we preach about him.
We pray about him. We talk about him as Lord. But my friend, he must be Lord over every compartment and department of your life and mine. He must be the life of our life. Now, isn't he worthy of this? Oh, ten thousand times ten thousand, he alone is the worthy one. Now, remember, beloved, how the God blessed David. And David blessed the Lord. And notice now our hands filled by the Lord himself and all for his own glory.
Notice the expression here. It is personal. Who? Notice the expression. Who? The service is a personal service. Then notice the next part here. Then... The service is pressing. Not only is it personal, but this is pressing. Who then? Now I'm going to forget all about that day, in connection with the building of that wonderful building, the temple. Now I'm going to forget all about Solomon so young and tender, and he thought the works so vast and so great.
Remember, he asked the Lord for an understanding heart. And the Lord gave him an understanding heart. He gave him wisdom. He gave him riches. He gave him health. He gave him more than he asked for. No, God is a giving God. He gives us lavishly all things to be enjoyed. And so did that this morning. Let us just think of this little chapel and part of the palms. What a favorite people really are just being here in such congenial surroundings and circumstances. And just forget all about one another for a short moment. And just hear the Lord saying to you through the chosen channel, and please lose sight of the channel, forget all about him.
And just hear the Lord saying to you and to me, who... Then. Now remember this is personal and remember this is pressing. And the Spirit is pressing home upon your heart and upon my heart this morning. Now go to the next word. Who then is willing? Is in the present tense. Is willing. And so the thought here is not only personal and pressing, but it is possible. It is possible. The Lord's service is personal, the Lord's service is pressing, and the Lord's service is possible.
It's possible for you, my brother, for you, my sister, for each one of us here this morning. The Lord will take your sphere for you and for me. Now notice the next part. Who then is willing to consecrate? Now notice the word is precious. The Lord's service is precious. Now, isn't that wonderful? Doesn't that do something in your heart? Oh, my friends, we could only recognize the preciousness and the worth and the value and the honor of this wonderful service. Yes, the world is precious. I'm thinking of that verse in Romans chapter one, verse number fifteen.
Don't read it. I'll read it to you if I may. It says these words. So, as much as in me is, I am ready. Isn't that lovely? I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. The word, I am ready. Verse number fourteen says the same chapter, I am debtor. Then he says in verse sixteen, I am not ashamed. He says, I am ready. Why, I am a debtor. But then it says, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
Now, isn't that lovely? And the Lord's service is not only personal and pressing and possible, but I want to think of the preciousness of the Lord's service. Friend, there's no calling so high, there's no profession so noble than to be the bond slave of Jesus Christ. Now remember we're all in this. Some of us have been called to leave the serving of tables and give our time to the word and to prayer and to the ministry and to grace. But all of us are in this because we're born again by the Holy Spirit.
Now I want you to recognize something of the value of your particular ministry, dear child of God. Now some of us can't speak. That is, we can't announce the glad tidings from a dead. And we can't teach God's beloved people. That may be so. And God may not have called us to this particular ministry, but there is something we can all do. I'm thinking of that wonderful scripture in Philippians chapter one, but it says in verse number five, your fellowship in the gospel. Now that does not mean going on, as Paul said in our scripture, woe to me if I preach not the gospel.
That's what the thought there at all. The word my spread is for the local church. And Paul says, thank you. And for your fellowship in the Gospel, the word fellowship means a joint participation in a common interest and activity. Now that's how they're at Massful early in the morning, isn't it? Here's the words again. It's a joint participation. We have joint participators in a common interest and activity. Now because we are all linked with this lovely... beautiful living organism, and we're all neighbors one or another, we're all to contribute to, to add to, to give to the spiritual tolls of the whole company.
Now each and every one of us are in this living organism. Each one is a living, fruitful and productive cell, and if they're not, then there's something wrong. Because we got right, this life by itself has been manifest in our contribution, our adding to, our giving to the spiritual tone of the assembly. Now you see, but how can I do that in my local church? Yea, how can I do that upon the part of the palms, conference ground? Where the Jesuit ways to you, within the context of verse five of Philippians one?
This number we have that same chapter says, thanking God upon every remembrance of you. Now there's one way we can indeed be contributing to the spiritual toll. What is it, by thanking God one for another? Now let me ask you a very lovingly, do you thank God for your fellow believers, even for that one that rubs you up the wrong way? Well, you ought to thank God for them because God may be used in the sandpaper that follows you up. Thanking God one for another. The next part is beautiful. Pray and always make a prayer of mine for you all. Paul must have come from the south.
Always talking about you all. You all. And he says here in every prayer of mine for you all. If you go down to verses nine and eleven of that very same first chapter of Philippine and see how Paul prays. Paul is intelligent. Paul is methodical in his prayer life. Look at how he prays for his first and foremost over heart. What he's saying? That your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgments. He prayed for the heart, then he prayed for the mind. He said that you may be able to deserve to distinguish between things that differ, things that excel.
Then he prayed for the character, that you may be sincere with God of faith to the dear Christ. Yeah, I know it be a child of God, but it's a three-dimensional. First of all, self-worth, that may be sincere. Man worked without a faith, God word to the day of Christ. That's how Paul prayed. He prayed firstly for the heart, and he prayed for the mind, and he prayed for the character. But then he was sincere, without a faith, and all in view of the coming of the Lord Jesus. Then he prayed for the combat. And what he said is that he might manifest the fruit of righteousness.
But how are we able to do this? Because in verse number one, the roots are in Christ Jesus. And because the roots are in Christ Jesus, then they manifest the fruits of righteousness, and God made Christ be unto us of righteousness. Now because Christ is the life of our life, there shall be a manifestation of fruits of righteousness. Now this is something we can't engineer, not something we can plan to organize. Oh no, the Christian life is not a Christmas tree of which we hang nice things. The Christian life is a fruit tree, a fruit tree.
And it manifests the proof, we're going to deal with this a little later, manifests the proof of the spirit, the love, the joy, the peace, the gentleness, the goodness, the goodness, the faith, the long suffering, and the self-control. Oh, that wonderful cluster right there. And an apple tree brings forth, apple is an apple tree. Pear is a pear tree. All is an apple tree. And we manifest the proofs of righteousness because we are in Christ. We manifest the truth of the Spirit because we are spirit in Christ. You are wonderful at all. The next part is very precious. We can have fellowship in the Gospel.
We can contribute to the spiritual tools of our local assembly by first of all thanking God one for another, by praying one for another, by praying for each other by name, And we can't do that if we got something against our brother or our sister. When I'm marrying people, and that's the thing about it, and we'll talk before we let them go, we suggest them to start straight away with a family altar. And how few homes are ours that have the family altar today. That's pathetic.
No wonder there's such a breakdown in the family life. And there I suggest them to start the family altar, if I know them sufficiently well enough before they are married. I ask them when they're quoting, before they kiss each other a good night, to read a portion of Scripture, and to pray together. Both pray. And then they carry this over into the matrimonial estate. It's a wonderful problem here. And I say, now when you go away in your honeymoon, first thing you do is open your Bible. And as you... If it came the promise of Matthew, it can be trained in verse two or three. It usually starts with two.
That verse two are governed in my name, there are my in the midst of them. Now that does not just mean a gospel chapter or a gospel hall. You can claim that promise right there and the Lord is with you. Two governed in my name. Now you read the scripture and you pray. But you'll find in the best regulated family circles you can't always see eye to eye with one another. So of course the problem is when you get down to pray in a sunny between you, there is a strange atmosphere and you can't pray for her, then somebody's got to say, I'm sorry dear.
It's usually the man that says that. I'm sorry, dear. And the result is this, beloved of course, immediately the atmosphere is quay, and you can pray who. Now I'd like to think of that in connection with the local testimony. You see, you've got an assembly directory or a church directory. A, B, C, all the various names and alphabetical order. You pray for A today, B tomorrow, C the next day, and you go right down to... There's a wonderful practice to do that, you know. But listen, you can't pray for a brother so-and-so or sister so-and-so by name if you've got something between you.
And so somebody's got to say, I'm sorry, dear. I remember your gentleness will make you great. And if it's just a clash of personalities, then for God's sake, say, I'm sorry, dear. If there's something doctrinal, something touching the person, the word of the Lord Jesus Christ, his deity, don't give an inch. But if it's just a clash of personalities, for God's sake, say, I'm sorry, dear. And what's going to happen? Even though you're in the right, you'll get the wrong place. Christ suffered wrongfully. He suffered wrongfully and he did it peacefully. He did it with joy when he was a bodily devout mother again.
But he committed keeping him a soul to him that judged righteously. You could do the very same, my brother and my sister. And the result is going to be a place at which fear. And then the next point is this. There's a sermon in Philippians chapter one says, Loving one another. He says, because I have you, according to verse seven now, because I have you in my mind, oh no. Because I have you upon my lips, oh no. Because I have you upon my shoulders, oh no. Because I have you under my feet, you're down, I'm going to keep you down, oh no. Because I have you on my nerves, oh no.
How many Christians get on one another's nears? Isn't that true? Probably I'm getting on yours. If I am, then you get me where Paul got me. You know what he's saying? Because I have you in my heart. Now isn't that lovely? Because I have you in my heart. And the margin says something beautiful. You know what it says? Because you have me in your heart. We have poured in their heart and poured them in his heart. Isn't that a beautiful blending now? And then in verse number eight, do you what he says? I call God to record. I call God to bear witness how greatly I long after you all in the tender heartedness of Jesus Christ.
First child of God, let it grip your soul again this morning. Next, three ways we can indeed have fellowship and be as participators, as those consecrated, are we dedicated to our adorable Lord Jesus, we can manifest in three ways locally by thanking God for our fellow believers, by praying for our fellow believers, and by loving our fellow believers. The scripture is clear about this. A new commandment I give unto you that you love one another. And by this, so all men know ye are my disciples because you love one for another.
The capital L-O-V-E. Love operates victoriously everywhere. Get that? Faith. Faith always inspires true holiness in view of the day. Hope. Hope offers perpetual encouragement in view of the day. So love, faith, hope. All in view are the coming again of our beloved Lord Jesus. So now who then is willing this day to consecrate His service is precious? when I want to get across you, whether my friend is at home, in the office, or hospital, or at the college or school, you're a child of God and you're there to manifest the life of Jesus Christ.
And this is a wonderful service. Dear Father, shall we? Let us know. Who then is willing to do the consecrate His service? His service. Look at this. The service is practical. Now I will finish with these words for the other evening, Romans twelve one. I beseech your therefore, brethren, that you present your body, a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable to God, which is a reasonable service, is something which is practical. It is not just, which is visual, a mere just, fanciful, A summing mind frame is not just merely spiritual, the sense or just the spirit.
A summing practical. And in this, this service is practical. And I love that. Now in the next part, we'll say, who then is willing this day to consecrate his service, and notice now, this day the service is present. It is present. It's this day. Am I willing, my friend, to do this this day? Let me go next far. Unto the Lord. Unto the Lord. His service is paramount. It's paramount. Let me go back over these wonderful things. It is personal. It is printing. It is possible.
It is precious. It is practical. It is present. And it's paramount. Pray it is unto... the Lord I love this and then verse number six the two last words offered willingly unto the Lord verse number nine then the people rejoiced for that they offered willingly because with a perfect heart they offered willingly unto the Lord now verse thirteen now therefore on God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name.
But who are mine? What is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this thought? For all things come of thee, and notice it now, and of thine own have we given thee. For ever not giving him back something doesn't belong to him. For he does give him back his own provision. He that he's purging through his own blood. And so we're just handing over the purchased possession. Handing over the goods they already made. Isn't this wonderful now? What we are just giving him back, what really belongs to him. We'll go down for a minute, William. Down to verse number...
Seventeen. I like this. I know also, my God, that thou tries the heart. And as pleasure in uprightness, as for me, Now this is a personal matter. As for me in the outrightness of my heart, I have willingly offered all, and I have seen with joy thy people which are present here at part of the palms to offer willingly unto thee. Isn't that just wonderful? Or does it not do something in your heart and my heart? Does it not warm the cockles of your heart?
Eh? Does it do something in sand and draw not to himself? And you look up and from your very heart you say, O precious Lord Jesus, how lovely thou art. Come and abide in my heart. Break every fetter. Thy face let me see. Then thou shalt ever be precious to me. Yes, beloved, our hand must work. Let's go a little further, shall we? This time down to the legs. This is very important. Remember in John, John, it says, If we walk in the light of tears in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ.
God's Son cleanses us from all sin. The walk is very important, dear child of God. The walk speaks of character. The walk speaks of conduct. The walk speaks of life. Because there is no mindset of a new walk. Then it says in Psalm one hundred and sixteen, verse number nine, I will walk before the Lord. Where? A talk of the palms. The word says, I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living, wherever you fear, wherever you may be. justly living in the consciousness, I'm walking before the Lord right down here. Right down here.
The wonder of that glorious fact. Sometimes I go back in London, Ontario. I only took two men walking down the Dundas Street in London. And as I passed them, I, in my own brief way, said something about the weller. I didn't know them from Adam. But I speak to everyone. And so they called me back and said, Sir, in your name, Boswell. I said, yes. He said, is that your son? It works in the treasury in the city hall. I said, yes, that's my son, Peter. He said, well, we knew that. One thing, I told you that. I told you that young fellow was that this man's son.
So how did you know? Say, when you bide walk, when you bide walk, He's got the same swagger, the same strut that you've got, the only thing he's got more sense than you've got. He doesn't want you to fast. But the point of this is that you were known by a walk. You see, and that man recognized that fever is my boy because of the walk. And because you belong to a family, the family of God, there's a certain walk. I will walk before the Lord where? In the land of the living. Our walk is very important, dear children of God, isn't it? Our walk is more important than our talk. Isn't that true? Remember the old age, the old French proverb said, I can't hear what you say for what you are.
And the walk always speaks louder than words. It really does. That is very important. Some of you even know the joy of walking, walking in the ways well, pleasing to him, walking in the paths of righteousness for his own dear and age's sake. Walking in love. Walking in light, walking in love, walking in circumspectly. But one of all that, my friend, trying with the last of the very, that part of our legs. I'm thinking now that wonderful verse in Galatians chapter five, walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the wrath of the flesh. And I said, if you live in the spirit, we shall walk in the spirit, no doubt about it. that if D by D we're walking the Spirit, that is control, dominated by the Holy Spirit, then we shall walk in the Spirit.
And remember, a walk is very important. This morning in my own private devotion, I have gone back to some things I jotted down the back of my Bible years ago. And I wanted just to draw your attention to some of it really gripped me. I'd like to read my hand on it. Yes, written by a namesake of my wife, auntie Gordon. This Bible I carry is bound in the bedded seal skin and with pig lining the bedded binding for hard wear.
The people want the Bible bound its shoe leather. When we trade our daily walk, we become an illustrated copy of the Bible. The greatest revival ever known will come. With utmost reverence, let me say that our Lord Jesus wants to come and walk around in our shoes and live inside our garments and touch men through us. As I read it again this morning, which I jotted down by the year nineteen fifteen, my heartless challenge, I preach this, but do I know it?
I preach it, but do I practice it? I preach in the office as Christ in shoe leather. Is Christ standing before that class in the college or in the school? Is Christ in the home? Christ in the hospital? Christ walking around in shoe leather? That's the best Bible of the world. See, they're not reading their Bible today, they're reading you and they're reading me. And God's great desire is that His Son should be made real in us and for us to God's glory. We have his father here, again written by another group, Scotsman called John Macbeth. In Jesus was profound effects of joy.
That my joy might remain in you and that your joy may be true. It is a personal possession. My joy in you. It is not the joy of circumstances. It is not the joy of money, for Jesus was poor. It is not the joy of youth, because youth had passed away, as it always will. It is not the joy of summer, because summer will not last. But the joy of a life at rest in God's love.
of a life at peace in God's will, of a life at work in God's purpose. It is perfect joy, my joy in you. It is a permanent possession. Now this joy, this peace, This love is not something apart from Christ. It's always to you and to me. Not I, but Christ that lives in me.
These are thrilling thoughts in my heart. I'm sorry. When it comes down to the ears, our ears, which is going up to the ears, eh? When it comes down to the acoustic valve, the member first above the tongue, then the eye, Then the mind, the palms, the palms of our hands. Thank God this morning he's got us on the palms of his hands. Our names are written on the palms of his hands. Our names are written on his heart. The place of security and the place of affection. That's where you are this morning, dear child of God. Remember you are his temple. And that's in this connection now, our legs.
That is our feet. and then we come to the ears. Now the whole thing springs from the heart. It's talking about the missionary vision. First of all, our minds must be informed. Then our eyes must see. Then our heart must feel. Then our ears must hear. Then our hands must work. Then our feet must go. and our lips must tell. Did you get all that? Did it all? Remember, my friend, the whole man over here handed over.
First of all, the heart possessed by the Spirit, making real in us the life of the Lord Jesus. Then what happens? Our minds will be involved Our eyes will see. Our heart will feel. Our ears will hear. Our hands will work. And oh, there's so much we can do. This hand filled with blessed holy service. Then, beloved, our feet must go.
Then our lips must tell. Go and tell. of Jesus. That you arise from this delightful class, may I say something? I don't know if when I've experienced the Spirit of God operating as I've done this morning. The Spirit of God is operating here today. And if I mean going down through the various members of your body and my body, then the quantum of your own heart you've been saying, Lord, take my mind, take my eyes, Lord, take my hands, my lips, my feet.
Lord, just take every part of me. I yield my whole life to thee. Samuel, just one verse. We'll get our clothes. Basically, I just started. Isaiah chapter fifty. Isaiah fifty. I'll read just these two verses and I'm going to close. And we're going to sing... And is here to him. Three hundred and sixty-two. Isaiah fifty, verses four and five. The Lord has given me the tongue of the Laredes. I should know how to speak a word in speech to him that is weary.
Notice this now. He waketh morning by morning. He awakened his mind ear to hear as the learning, the Lord God had opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned my way back. How had he got the tongue of the learning? Because his ear was open morning by morning to the voice of the God. That we were going to be able to speak a word to those who had really a word in season Just the word of cheer, the word of comfort, the word of encouragement, maybe the word of correction, maybe the word of rebuke.
My friend, all being loved. Why? Because the Lord, first of all, had our ear in the early morning. The man in Hebrew and Exodus said to him, And to one, the Hebrew servant, his ear was bowed through. And here the Bible says, it's very good God, Jehovah's perfect servant, My ear hast thou digged. My ear hast thou digged. Is he or is bold who? Is he or is opened to the voice of Jehovah. Maybe early in the morning, before we hear any other voice, hear the voice of an adorable Lord Jesus through the Holy Scripture.
Before we see any other faith, may we see the faith of our beloved Lord Jesus. Oh, my friend, this is vital. We too shall have the tongue of the learned. The able-speaker word seems as though they were really bound away. Why? Because the Lord has had our ear before any other voice. May God help us. To come this place of recognizing the heart, the mind, the eyes, the ears, the hands, the legs, the voice, Are there all at his disposal to be taken up and used for his own glory?
Into thy hands, Lord, in thy hands. Take me and mold me as the potter handles the clay. Make me a vessel fit for thy service. Cleanse me and fill me. And use me today. In number three hundred and sixty-two. We'll go on from this this evening, my friend. The theme will be the instrument, the Christian as an instrument. Be much in prayer about this meeting. We may indeed see God's hand moving in us each one. Please, please do. Friends, we will have a good, wonderful hymn.
All together. Take my life and let it be. Take on faith, pray it, Lord, till thee. Mr. Harold Wilder, she's got a practice. We come to this hymn. I've used several times myself.
I'm not using it here this morning. It says how the verse applies to you. Will you please rise to your feet? I'm not saying that to you now. I'm just resting your heart before the law of my heart. But it's very wonderful. I've seen this very, very effective in many, many gatherings. When it comes to him, the verse applies to you. Will you please rise to your feet at an act of dedication? You can do that in our hearts this morning, eh? Verse number two, all together. Take my feet and let them be, And sweet and beautiful for thee.
Be take my heart and let me say, Always only for my king, Always only for my king. Take I leave, and let them be, Built with the riches of thee. will take my will, burden my good.
Not a might would I withhold. Not a bite would I withhold. Notice the words of the lad there. Make them a prayer from our heart. All together. Take thy love, O Lord, I hope. Take myself, and I will be ever fully upon thee, ever only all for thee, ever only all for thee.
The God grants a meditation of our hearts and the words of our mouths may be acceptable in thy sight, our God of strength and our Redeemer. We do know we need a clean heart for worship, clean lips for witnessing, clean feet for walking, clean hands for working, and so this morning we kneel in the whole life. unreserved and unconditioned to thee. O God, by thy spirit, come in and fill and control and operate through us in all thy mighty power.
Through Jesus Christ our wonderful Lord, to whom we glory both now and forevermore. Amen. Thanks for coming this morning. God bless you, Swami.