When we awake in the morning, we should pray to be as humble as Christ the child was. We should pray to be as diligent as He was as a young boy and teenager working in His father’s carpentry shop. We should seek the baptism of the Holy Ghost as He experienced at the Jordan. We should brace ourselves for the assaults of the enemy as He did in the wilderness. It is then that we may “return in the power of the spirit” into our daily task, as Jesus “returned in the power of the Spirit” from His victory in the wilderness (see Luke 4:14). In the middle of the day, we may “come aside and rest awhile”
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