"The live coal is symbolical of purification, and it also represents the potency of the efforts of God's true servants. To those who make so full a consecration that the Lord can place His touch upon their lips, the word is spoken, Go forth into the harvest-field. I will co-operate with you. GW 23.1"
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest."
EGW connects purification with being sent into the harvest field. Matthew 9:38 is a direct command to pray for laborers to be sent into the harvest. The connection is thematic, linking preparation with mission.
"For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building."
EGW mentions God's cooperation with His servants. 1 Corinthians 3:9 states that believers are laborers together with God. The connection is thematic, highlighting the collaborative nature of ministry.
"The minister who has received this preparation will be a power for good in the world. His words will be right words, pure and true, fraught with sympathy and love; his actions will be right actions, a help and a blessing to the weak. Christ will be to him an abiding presence, controlling thought, word, and deed. He has pledged himself to overcome pride, covetousness, selfishness. As he seeks to fulfil this pledge, he gains spiritual strength. By daily communion with God he becomes mighty in a knowledge of the Scriptures. His fellowship is with the Father and the Son; and as he constantly obeys the divine will, he becomes daily better fitted to speak words that will guide wandering souls to the fold of Christ. GW 23.2"
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."
The EGW passage describes a minister whose life is controlled by Christ, echoing the sentiment of Galatians 2:20 where Paul states that he lives by the faith of Christ and that Christ lives in him. Both passages emphasize Christ's indwelling presence and influence on the believer's life.