Selected Messages, Volume 3 - Ellen G. White

The Lord has bidden us to draw nigh to Him
and he will draw nigh to us; and drawing nigh to
Him, we receive the grace by which to do those
works which will be rewarded at his hands.—The
Review and Herald, January 29, 1895.
Surrounded With Heaven’s Atmosphere—
1898.—“We love him, because he first loved us”
(1 John 4:19). True conversion, true sanctification,
will be the cause of the change in our views and
our feelings toward one another and toward God.
“We have known and believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him” (Verse 16). We
must increase in faith. We must know the
sanctification of the Spirit. In earnest prayer we
must seek God, that the divine Spirit may work in
us. God then will be glorified by the example of the
human agent. We shall be workers together with
God.
Sanctification of soul, body, and spirit will
surround us with the atmosphere of heaven. If God
has chosen us from eternity, it is that we might be
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