Moving Forward by Faith
Advance in Faith—Means Will Come—Can we expect the in-
habitants of these cities to come to us and say, “If you will come to us
and preach, we will help you to do thus and so”? They know nothing
of our message. The Lord desires us to let our light so shine before
men that His Holy Spirit may communicate the truth to the honest in
heart who are seeking after truth. As we do this work, we shall find
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that means will flow into our treasuries, and we shall have means with
which to carry on a still broader and more far-reaching work.
Shall we not advance in faith, just as if we had thousands of dollars?
We do not have half faith enough. Let us act our part in warning these
cities. The warning message must come to the people who are ready
to perish, unwarned, unsaved. How can we delay? As we advance, the
means will come. But we must advance by faith, trusting in the Lord
God of Israel.
Night after night I am unable to sleep, because of this burden
resting upon me in behalf of the unwarned cities. Night after night
I am praying and trying to devise methods by which we can enter
these cities and give the warning message. Why, there is a world
to be warned and saved, and we are to go East and West and North
and South, and work intelligently for the people all about us. As we
undertake this work, we shall see the salvation of God. Encouragement
will come.—
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Follow God’s Opening Providence—If we would follow the
opening providence of God, we should be quick to discern every
opening, and make the most of every advantage within our reach....
There is a fearfulness to venture out and run risks in this great work,
fearing that the expenditure of means would not bring returns. What
if means are used and yet we cannot see that souls have been saved
by it? What if there is a dead loss of a portion of our means? Better
work and keep at work than to do nothing. You know not which shall
prosper—this or that.
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