Prayer Bulletin No. 28b (HEPRESHED BY HIS RESURRECTION LIFR ‘The Resurrection of Christ means LIFE T0 THB CHRISTIAN! Life! Lite! dnd yet - we are so apt to lose our radiance, fervency and zest. Too often Christians becone stale in their experience! They are dull and weary Have you noticed how quickly one's Bank Account becomes depleted if we fail to keep our deposits up? Similarly, if we fail to have a regular intake of spiritual life, we lose our spiritual dynamic! We must regularly drink at the Fountain of Life and feed our souls upon the Living Bread! Othervise we go stale! Waiting upon the Lord should be our first priority each morning. No musician vould attempt to give a Recital without first tuning his instrument. How foolish if he vere to leave that task until the concert was over! Our spiritual instruments (soul, spirit, heart, mind, yes and even our bodies) must be tuned each morning to prevent the melody of life-in-Christ going flat! These are critical days. This is no ordinary time. Soldiers of Jesus are in a strategic battle, and if we are to know victory we must not be dull, tired, weary or stale! We must keep in the newness and freshness of the Spirit. It is a grand thing to meet with God and read the Word every day under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. We are invigorated and refreshed! The Lord knows our need, He knows our frame (Ps 103.14) and provides a fresh snointing every day for us. David said, "I shall be anointed with fresh oil" (Ps 92.10) The Lord emphasises the DATLY provision in Lam.2,22-23. "His compassions fail not; they are new every mom- ing", The Holy spirit supplice us with LIVING WATER (Jan 7-37-38; and John 4.14) We read in Isaich 28.12 - "This is the rest wherewith ye may couse the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing". A few minutes spent each morning allowing the "well of water to spring up" and the accompanying use ofthe Glossalalia works wonders! Sonetines the dullness or staleness is brought about by some failure in our lives. But thank God there is a Fountain filled with Blood, arawn fron Enmenuel's veins, and sinners plunged beneath that flood, Jose all their guilty stains". Spiritual defeat will always bring Btaleness. But there is no need for the Christian to suffer defeat. There is Victory in Jesus! But one must live in Him, abide in Him, close to Him, in contact with Him - and be continually open to the inflow of His life. If the electricity was cut off from your home, your stove, washer, lights, and other appliances would be powerless ~ Useless! And that ie what happens when contact is lost with Jesus ~ and the inflow of Resurrection Life is arrested! Ve are useless! Ae we spend tine with Him every morning, the Roly Spirit recharges our spiritual batteries - and we are invincible! Victory sweeps away dullness and staleness! Ve are refresied in Hia! Spiritual idleness will promote staleness, too. Are you doing any service for Jesus? Witnessing? Praying for others? A burden for some poor lost soul, and prayerfully looking for an opportunity to witness keeps the soul refreshed The fires of @ Christian's soul will soon burn low if he neglects his Church meetings. Hearing about Joous and talking about Him while fellowshiping with other Christians is a wonderful way of keeping our spiritual temperature up! I suppose one of the greatest influences in the life of a Christian is looking for The Lord Jesus to Return! ‘0 be on the tip-toe of expectancy for His Coming will certeinly keep any Christian from getting stale! — Brother/Sister, I you get weary, dull or stale in your spiritual life, pause and remember that, “In a monent, in ‘the twinkling of an eye, at the lest trump, for the trumpet shall Bound and the dead in Christ shall rise first - and we shall be changed!" Hallelujah! Be ready!