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they abode with him that day”. What a day that must have

been in the presence of Jesus! How much do I know the

presence of Jesus? I am tested as to it, but we can have as

much of it as we want and the Lord would be available to us

and wants us to have as much of His presence as we can.

“Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who

heard this from John and followed him. He first finds his own

brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias

(which being interpreted is Christ). And he led him to Jesus”.

How many people have we led to Jesus? How many people

have we spoken to about Jesus? Every day we have an

opportunity to speak to someone about Christ, and the Lord

would have us to lead persons to Him, maybe your next-door

neighbour, maybe someone you deal with in the office,

someone who has nothing to do with the meetings; seek to

bring them to Christ. What a wonderful thing this is; he finds

Simon “and he led him to Jesus”. “Jesus looking at him said,

Thou art Simon, the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas

(which interpreted is stone)”.

What a wonderful thing to find that Simon, the apostle that he

turned out to be, was found because someone had been

attracted, had been affected by the movements of Jesus.

I read the passage in Judges to touch this further thought.

Caleb said, “He that smites Kirjath-sepher and takes it, to him

will I give Achsah my daughter as wife”. It is a matter of

overcoming. “And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger

brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife”.

There is something to be overcome. The note says it is the

‘City of the Book’. The Lord would encourage and help us to

overcome these things in view of being able to go the full, way.

We are in another year, 1989; the Lord has preserved us to

enter another year. What are our committals in this year? Are

we going to be like this man Othniel who took the city? He

decided that he was going to overcome Kirjath-sepher, the

City of the Book, and take it. And he had another objective;