The Greater The Trial, The Sweeter The

The Province Of Faith Begins Where Probabilities Cease And Sight And Sense Fail.

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.

As A Warning To Parents, I Mention That My Father Preferred Me To My Brother, Which Was Very Injurious To Both Of Us. To Me, As Tending To Produce In My Mind A Feeling Of Self-elevation; And To My Brother, By Creating In Him A Dislike Both Towards My Father And Me.

We Should Not Shrink From Opportunities Where Our Faith May Be Tried. The More I Am In A Position To Be Tried In Faith, The More I Will Have The Opportunity Of Seeing God’s Help And Deliverance. Every Fresh Instance In Which He Helps And Delivers Me Will Increase My Faith. The Believer Should Not Shrink From Situations, Positions, Or Circumstances In Which His Faith May Be Tried, But He Should Cheerfully Embrace Them As Opportunities To See The Hand Of God Stretched Out In Help And Deliverance. Thus His Faith Will Be Strengthened.

There Was A Day When I Died; Died To Self, My Opinions, Preferences, Tastes And Will; Died To The World, Its Approval Or Censure; Died To The Approval Or Blame Even Of My Brethren Or Friends; And Since Then I Have Studied Only To Show Myself Approved Unto God.