All the feebleness in the Church is owing to the refusal of the Church to obey its God. And why is that so? I know your answer. You say: “We are too feeble and too helpless, and we vow to obey, but somehow we fail.” Ah yes, you fail because you do not accept the strength of God. God alone can work out His will in you. You cannot work out God’s will, but His Holy Spirit can. Until the Church and the believers grasp this, and cease trying by human effort to do God’s will, and wait upon the Holy Spirit to come with all His omnipotent and enabling power, the Church will never be what God wants her
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