The Holy Trinity

(1) God is an ever-flowing fountain of pure love

and blessedness. (2) Christ is the reservoir wherein the fullness

of God was made visible as grace, and has been —

opened for us.

(3) The Holy Spirit is the stream of living water that flows from under the throne of God and of the Lamb.

(4) The Redeemed, God’s believing children, are the channels through which the love of the Father, the grace of Christ, and the powerful operation of the Spirit are brought to the earth, there to be imparted to others.

(5) What an impression we gain here of the wonderful partnership into which God takes us up, as dispensers of the grace of God! Prayer, when we chiefly pray for ourselves, is but the beginning of the life of prayer. The glory of prayer is that we have power as intercessors to bring the grace of Christ, and the energizing power of the Spirit, upon those souls which are still in darkness.

(6) The more surely the channel is connected with the reservoir, the more certainly will the water flow unhindered through it. The more we are occupied in prayer with the fullness of Christ, and the Spirit who proceeds from Him, and the more firmly we abide in fellowship with Him, the more

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surely will our lives be happy and strong. This, however, is still only a preparation for the reality. The more we give ourselves up to fellowship and converse with the Triune God, the sooner shall we receive the courage and ability to pray down blessing on souls, on ministers, and on the Church around us. (7) Are you truly a channel which is always open, so that the water may flow through you to the thirsty ones in the dry land? Have you offered yourself unreservedly to God, to become a bearer of the energizing operations of the Holy Spirit?

(8) Is it not, perhaps, because you have thought only of yourself in prayer, that you have experienced so little of the power of prayer? Do understand that the new prayer-life into which you have entered in the Lord Jesus can be sustained and strengthened only by the intercession in which you labour for the souls around you, to bring them to know the Lord. Oh, meditate on this — God an ever-flowing fountain of love and blessing, and I His child, a living channel through which every day the Spirit and life can be brought to the earth!