God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
“Abba” is only a little word, and yet contains everything. It is not the mouth but the heart’s affection which speaks like this. Even if I am oppressed with anguish and terror on every side, and seem to be forsaken and utterly cast away from Your presence, yet am I Your child, and You are my Father. For Christ’s sake: I am loved because of the Beloved. So this little word, “Abba,” Father, deeply felt in the heart, surpasses all the eloquence of Demosthenes, Cicero, and the most eloquent speakers that ever lived. This matter is not expressed with words, but with groanings, and these groanings cannot be uttered with any words of eloquence, for no tongue can express them.
If the preacher strives to speak according to the rules of this world, he may please many, particularly those who have a literary taste. But he is less likely to become an instrument in the hands of God for the conversion of sinners or for the building up of the saints. Neither eloquence nor depth of thought makes a truly great preacher. Only a life of prayer and meditation will render him a vessel ready for the Master’s use and fit to be employed in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of the saints.
Heat currants and Cognac in small saucepan until just warm. Cover mixture
and let stand 1 hour.
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 deg. Butter 6-cup fluted
tube cake pan or 9x5-inch loaf pan. (Line loaf pan with waxed paper; butter
paper.) Dust pan with flour. Sift 1 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, cinnamon
and salt into medium bowl. Drain soaking liquid from currants into half and
half. Add vanilla. Pat currants dry. Combine currants, bittersweet
chocolate and 2 tablespoons flour in small bowl. Using electric mixer,
cream butter in large bowl. Add 1 cup sugar and beat until light and
fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time. Mix flour and half and half mixtures
alternately into butter, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Using
spatula, fold in chocolate mixture. Spoon into prepared pan. Bake cake
until center is springy to touch, about 1 hour.
Cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes. Run knife around cake. Invert onto
rack. Peel off paper and cool cake completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar
or spread glaze over top, allowing some to drip down sides. Garnish with
chocolate curls.
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