Chapter 18—Help for Every Difficulty
A Thousand Ways—Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to
provide for us of which we know nothing. Those who accept the one
principle of making the service of God supreme, will find perplexities
vanish, and a plain path before their feet.—
The Ministry of Healing,
481
(1905).
Results Not Measured by Apparent Success—We are to be sin-
cere, earnest Christians, doing faithfully the duties placed in our hands,
and looking ever to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Our
reward is not dependent upon our seeming success, but upon the spirit
in which our work is done. As canvassers or evangelists, you may not
have had the success you prayed for, but remember that you do not
know and cannot measure the result of faithful effort.—
Manuscript
20, 1905
.
No Need for Discouragement—When there is a continual re-
liance upon God, a continual practice of self-denial, the workers will
not sink into discouragement. They will not worry. They will remem-
ber that in every place there are souls of whom the Lord has need, and
whom the devil is seeking, that he may bind them fast in the slavery
of sin, of disregard for the law of God.—
Manual for Canvassers, 22,
23
(1902).
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Victory Will Be Given—The canvasser need not be discouraged if
he is called to encounter difficulties in his work; let him work in faith,
and victory will be given. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world.” Whenever a book is presented that will expose error,
Satan is close by the side of the one to whom it is offered, and urges
reasons why it should not be accepted. But a divine agency is at work
to influence minds in favor of the light. Ministering angels will oppose
their power to that of Satan. And when through the influence of the
Holy Spirit the truth is received into the mind and heart, it will have a
transforming power upon the character.—
Manuscript 31, 1890
.
90