The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

home from child to child, the salvation, the love, the joy, the service of
God. Yes, Lord! You are the Eternal and Unchanging One; let it be from
generation to generation. Amen.
Twenty-Sixth Day – The Crowning Blessing
`I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy.’ Joel 2: 28.
This is the promise of which the day of Pentecost was the fulfillment
and the interpretation. The coming of the Comforter, the baptism with
the Holy Ghost and with fire, the endowment with power from on high,
the receiving the power of the Holy Ghost to be His witnesses to the end
of the earth, all these precious promises of Christ were comprehended
and fulfilled in the fulfillment of Joel’s prophecy. It contains the titledeeds
of what the birthright and the baptism of Christ’s Church
secures to her: the Holy Ghost from the throne of the exalted Savior, as
her power for testimony and for suffering, for triumph and for blessing,
is the heavenly sign with which she has been marked and sealed.
In this foundation promise, what a place is given to the children! `Your
sons and daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams;
your young men shall see visions.’ The seed of God’s people have such a
place in His heart, when He deals with His people their offspring are so
continually in His thoughts, that even in the promise of Pentecost the
first thing introduced is, not the disciples now anointed to preach, but
the sons and the daughters prepared to prophesy. Let us try and take in
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