As A Warning To Parents, I Mention

Trials, Obstacles, Difficulties And Sometimes Defeats, Are The Very Food Of Faith.

The More I Am In A Position To Be Tried In Faith With Reference To My Body, My Family, My Service For The Lord, My Business, Etc., The More Shall I Have Opportunity Of Seeing God's Help And Deliverance; And Every Fresh Instance, In Which He Helps And Delivers Me, Will Tend Towards The Increase Of My Faith.

Here Is The Great Secret Of Success. Work With All Your Might; But Trust Not In The Least In Your Work. Pray With All Your Might For The Blessing Of God; But Work, At The Same Time, With All Diligence, With All Patience, With All Perseverance. Pray Then, And Work. Work And Pray. And Still Again Pray, And Then Work. And So On All The Days Of Your Life. The Result Will Surely Be, Abundant Blessing. Whether You See Much Fruit Or Little Fruit, Such Kind Of Service Will Be Blessed.

If Honest Of Heart And Uprightness Before God Were Lacking Or If I Did Not Patiently Wait On God For Instruction, Or If I Preferred The Counsel Of My Fellow-men To The Declarations Of The Word Of God, I Made Great Mistakes.

It Often Astonishes Me That I Did Not See The Importance Of Meditation Upon Scripture Earlier In My Christian Life. As The Outward Man Is Not Fit For Work For Any Length Of Time Unless He Eats, So It Is With The Inner Man. What Is The Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God -not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Runs Through A Pipe. No, We Must Consider What We Read, Ponder Over It, And Apply It To Our Hearts.