February 25: Heavenly Happiness.
Delighting in Communing With the Father.
David said about him: "I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope."--Acts 2:25-26, NIV
CHRIST FOUND COMFORT and joy in communion with His Father. Here He could unburden His heart of the sorrows that were crushing Him....As the human was upon Him, He felt His need of strength from His Father. He had select places of prayer. He loved to hold communion with His Father in the solitude of the mountains. In this exercise His holy, human soul was strengthened for the duties and trials.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 201.
He studied the word of God, and His hours of greatest happiness were found when He could turn aside from the scene of His labors to go into the fields, to meditate in the quiet valleys, to hold communion with God on the mountainside or amid the trees of the forest. The early morning often found Him in some secluded place, meditating, searching the Scriptures, or in prayer. With the voice of singing He welcomed the morning light. With songs of thanksgiving He cheered His hours of labor and brought heaven's gladness to the toilworn and disheartened.--The Ministry of Healing, 52.
One of those days, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray,
and spent the night praying to God.
--Luke 6:12, NIV
Delighting in Communing With the Father.
David said about him: "I saw the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope."--Acts 2:25-26, NIV
CHRIST FOUND COMFORT and joy in communion with His Father. Here He could unburden His heart of the sorrows that were crushing Him....As the human was upon Him, He felt His need of strength from His Father. He had select places of prayer. He loved to hold communion with His Father in the solitude of the mountains. In this exercise His holy, human soul was strengthened for the duties and trials.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 201.
He studied the word of God, and His hours of greatest happiness were found when He could turn aside from the scene of His labors to go into the fields, to meditate in the quiet valleys, to hold communion with God on the mountainside or amid the trees of the forest. The early morning often found Him in some secluded place, meditating, searching the Scriptures, or in prayer. With the voice of singing He welcomed the morning light. With songs of thanksgiving He cheered His hours of labor and brought heaven's gladness to the toilworn and disheartened.--The Ministry of Healing, 52.
One of those days, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray,
and spent the night praying to God.
--Luke 6:12, NIV
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