He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart \u2026 for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. \u2014 2 Chronicles 25:2; 20:33.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaddy, I wish you would make more registers all over the house so that it would be warmer.\u201d Daddy smiled at his boy\u2019s conception that more registers were needed. The need was \u201cmore fire\u201d in the furnace. Many of the Lord\u2019s people are thinking of more committees, conferences, resolutions and what not, when the real need lies in wholehearted, holy zeal, living, testimony, giving, prayer and Bible study in the power of the Holy Spirit of God. Adapted<\/p>\n
O Thou who all things canst control
\n Chase this dread coldness from my soul;
\n Touch my cold breast with heavenly fire;
\n With holy conquering zeal inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart \u2026 for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers. \u2014 2 Chronicles 25:2; 20:33. \u201cDaddy, I wish you would make more registers all over the house so that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5093,2252],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}