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throughout the world the joy of serving Christ? Those who in heaven
join with the angelic choir in their anthem of praise must learn on earth
the song of heaven, the keynote of which is thanksgiving.
Never let your courage fail. Never talk unbelief because appear-
ances are against you. As you work for the Master you will feel
pressure for want of means, but the Lord will hear and answer your
petitions for help. Let your language be: “The Lord God will help me;
therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a
flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.”
Isaiah 50:7
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If you make a mistake, turn your defeat into victory. The lessons
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that God sends will always, if well learned, bring help in due time.
Put your trust in God. Pray much, and believe. Trusting, hoping,
believing, holding fast the hand of Infinite Power, you will be more
than conquerors.
True workers walk and work by faith. Sometimes they grow weary
with watching the slow advance of the work when the battle wages
strong between the powers of good and evil. But if they refuse to
fail or be discouraged they will see the clouds breaking away and the
promise of deliverance fulfilling. Through the mist with which Satan
has surrounded them, they will see the shining of the bright beams of
the Sun of Righteousness.
Work in faith, and leave results with God. Pray in faith, and the
mystery of His providence will bring its answer. At times it may seem
that you cannot succeed. But work and believe, putting into your
efforts faith, hope, and courage. After doing what you can, wait for the
Lord, declaring His faithfulness, and He will bring His word to pass.
Wait, not in fretful anxiety, but in undaunted faith and unshaken trust.
“If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His
own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him
also freely give us all things? ... Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? ... Nay, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.”
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