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Unction is the sweetest exhalation of the Holy Spirit. It carries the Word like dynamite, like salt, like sugar; makes the Word a soother, an accuser, a revealer, a searcher; makes the hearer a culprit or a saint, makes him weep like a child and live like a giant; opens his heart and his purse as gently, yet as strongly as the spring opens the leaves. This unction is not the gift of genius. It is not found in the hall of learning. No eloquence can woo it. No industry can win it. It is the gift of God - the signet set to His own messengers. It is heaven’s knighthood given to the chosen true and brave ones who have sought this anointed honor through many an hour of tearful, wrestling prayer. Earnestness is good and impressive; genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it takes a diviner endowment, a more powerful energy than earnestness or genius or thought to break the chains of sin, to win estranged and depraved hearts to God, to repair the breaches and restore the church to her old ways of purity and power. Nothing but holy unction can do this.

E.M. Bounds

To concentrate on service and activity for God may often actively thwart our attaining of the true goal, God Himself. At first sight it seems heroic to fling our lives away in the service of God and of our fellows. We feel it is bound to mean more to Him than our experience of Him. Service seems so unselfish, whereas concentrating on our walk with God seems selfish and self-centered. But it is the very reverse. The things that God is most concerned about are our coldness of heart towards Himself and our proud, unbroken natures. Christian service of itself can, and so often does, leave our self-centered nature untouched… With those things hidden in our hearts, we have only to work alongside others, and find resentment, hardness, criticism, jealousy, and frustration issuing from our hearts. We think we are working for God, but the test of how little of our service for Him is revealed by our resentment or self-pity… We need to leave our lusting for ever-larger spheres of Christian service and concentrate on seeing God for ourselves and finding the deep answer for life in Him.

Roy Hession

We Love God!

God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Lemon Crumb Squares

January 23, 2023

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy		Cookie	24	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	cn	(15-oz) sweetened condensed milk
1/2	c	Lemon juice
1	ts	Grated lemon rind
1 1/2	c	Sifted flour
1	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Salt
2/3	c	Butter
1	c	Dark brown sugar; firmly packed
1	c	Oatmeal; uncooked

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350&deg;. Blend together milk, juice and rind of lemon and set
aside. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Cream butter and blend
in sugar. Add oatmeal and flour mixture and mix until crumbly. Spread half
the mixture in an 8x12 buttered baking pan and pat down. Spread condensed
milk mixture over the top and cover with the remaining crumb mixture. Bake
for 20 to 25 minutes or until edges are browned. Cool in pan at room
temperature for 15 minutes. Cut into 2 inch squares and chill in pan until
firm.  Yield: 2 dozen.
NANCY COUCH LEE
(MRS. JAMES M., JR.)
From <Traditions: A Taste of the Good Life>, by the Little Rock (AR) Junior
League.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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