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Messages to Young People
Prayer Brings Power
The strength acquired in prayer to God will prepare us for our daily
duties. The temptations to which we are daily exposed make prayer a
necessity. In order that we may be kept by the power of God through
faith, the desires of the mind should be continually ascending in silent
prayer. When we are surrounded by influences calculated to lead us
away from God, our petitions for help and strength must be unwearied.
Unless this is so, we shall never be successful in breaking down pride
and overcoming the power of temptation to sinful indulgences which
keep us from the Saviour. The light of truth, sanctifying the life,
will discover to the receiver the sinful passions of his heart which
are striving for the mastery, and which make it necessary for him to
stretch every nerve and exert all his powers to resist Satan that he may
conquer through the merits of Christ.—
The Youth’s Instructor, August
18, 1898
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