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  CO-LABORING WITH GOD
  by Watchman Nee
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Summary: God wants to work with His children to accomplish His will, but
He needs their prayer and partnership to do so.

Topics: "Prayer", "Co-Laboring with God"
Scripture References: Luke 18:1, James 5:16, 1 John 5:14

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Watchman Nee emphasizes the importance of prayer in co-laboring with
God, explaining that while God has a will, He desires His children to
pray in alignment with it. He highlights that God's work will not be
executed independently without the prayers of believers expressing their
unity with Him. Nee illustrates this with the example of a judge who
would not avenge a widow without her persistent cries, paralleling it to
how God awaits the prayers of His people to act against the devil. The
sermon underscores that believers have the authority to accuse Satan
based on their persecution, which leads to his ultimate defeat.
Ultimately, God delights in His people partnering with Him through
prayer.

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God has a will. Yet He wants man to pray according to His will. When man
does this, He will immediately accomplish the work that His will has
ordained. If there is no prayer from His children expressing their
oneness with Him in His work, no matter what His will may be, He will
not execute it independently. God's goal is to remove the work of the
devil, and surely His will is to avenge the believers. But God is
waiting for His children to pray. As the judge would not have avenged
the widow without her crying out to him, in the same way, without the
Satan-accusing prayer of the believers, God will not avenge them. We do
not know why, but we do know that God is pleased to see His people
working with Him.

However, there must be a basis to our accusing.

The ones who are persecuted by Satan are the believers. Hence, the
believers can accuse him before God based on Satan's treatment of them.
In this way, he will receive his deathblow.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/watchman-nee/co-laboring-with-god/
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