The Spirit And The Word Must Be

God Is Pleased Continually To Vary His Mode Of Dealing With Us, In Order That We May Not Be Tempted To Trust In Donors, Or In Circumstances, But In Him Alone, And To Keep Our Eye Fixed Upon Him.

A Brother With Small Earnings May Ask,''should I Also Give? My Earning Are Already So Small That My Family Can Barely Make Ends Meet.'' My Reply Is, ''have You Ever Considered That The Very Reason Your Earnings Remain So Small May Be Because You Spend Everything On Yourself? If God Gave You More, You Would Only Use It To Increase Your Own Comfort Instead Of Looking To See Who Is Sick Or Who Has No Work At All That You Might Help Them.

It Is True That The Faith, Which I Am Enabled To Exercise, Is Altogether God's Own Gift; It Is True That He Alone Supports It, And That He Alone Can Increase It; It Is True That, Moment By Moment, I Depend Upon Him For It, And That, If I Were Only One Moment Left To Myself, My Faith Would Utterly Fail.

On The Ground Of Our Own Goodness We Cannot Expect To Have Our Prayers Answered. But Jesus Is Worthy, And For His Sake We May Have Our Prayers Answered. There Is Nothing Too Choice, Too Costly, Or Too Great For God To Give Him. He Is Worthy. He Is The Spotless, Holy Child, Who Under All Circumstances Acted According To The Mind Of God. And If We Trust In Him, If We Hide In Him, If We Put Him Forward And Ourselves In The Background, Depend On Him And Plead His Name, We May Expect To Have Our Prayers Answered.

It Is Not Enough To Begin To Pray, Nor To Pray Aright; Nor Is It Enough To Continue For A Time To Pray; But We Must Patiently, Believingly, Continue In Prayer Until We Obtain An Answer; And Further We Have Not Only To Continue In Prayer Unto The End, But We Have Also To Believe That God Does Hear Us, And Will Answer Our Prayers. Most Frequently We Fail In Not Continuing In Prayer Until The Blessing Is Obtained, And In Not Expecting The Blessing.