Of all the promises connected with the command, 'ABIDE IN ME,' there is none higher, and none that sooner brings the confession, 'Not that I have already attained, or am already ready made perfect,' than this: 'If ye abide in me, ask any ye will, and it shall be done unto you.' Power with God is the highest attainment of the life of full abiding.
And of all the traits of a life LIKE CHRIST there is none higher and much glorious than conformity to Him in the activity that now engages Him without ceasing in the Father's presence--His all-prevailing intercession. The much we abide in Him, and grow unto His likeness, wish His priestly life activity in us mightily, and our life become what His is, a life that ever pleads and prevails for men.
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