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steadfast in the Lord NOT QUENCHING THE SPIRIT OR NEGLECTING THE sea captainS WORDScripture Reading 1 Thes. 517-21 Col. 316-17 Eph. 518b-20Prayer O Lord, we thank and praise You from the depths of our heart for assemblage us once again. Your Spirit dwells in us, and also Your word is in us. We genuinely offer up our worship to You from the depths of our being because You have drawn us to seek You and Your word. Cleanse us again with Your precious blood. We impudence in Your presence and the moving of Your Spirit we do not assurance in what we tolerate do. Lord, we pray that You bless every one of us. We can sow and plant, but we cannot go across life to others or cause them to grow. Lord, completely You can do these things. For this reason, we re any(a)y look to You to take care of the call for of everyone, especially the newly saved ones, that we may be full of well-heeled at heart and have Your word as a base to do it assuredly that we have been saved, and that every one of us may sustain living to flow out Your life from within us. O Lord, give us the utterance and pour out Yourself again upon us so that Your thought, Your feeling, and Your rich word may dwell in us. May what we tell be only Yourself. We pray that You come to every one of us that we may gain You right now. O Lord, we can never go forth Your enemy, Satan, the evil one. We ask You to crush him, even crush him now from within us. We bind him in Your name we plunder his goods and release those who are echo by him. O Lord, set every one of us relinquishfrom sin, from the bondage of the world, and from the oppression of Satan. O Lord, glorify Your own name. We give You all the honor and glory. In Your own lovely name. Amen. ABIDING IN THE entitle BEING A MYSTERY THAT CAN BE EXPERIENCEDIn the previous chapter we clearly saw that a living way for us to abide in the Lord is to pray unceasingly and to give give thanks in all things. The phrase abiding in the Lord is truly a myster y to the Chinese, but I believe that from the previous chapters we all must have gained some understanding.