Prayer and Promises

THE PROMISE 

And the disciples went everywhere and preached, and the Lord worked through them, confirming what they said by many miraculous signs.

— Mark 16:20, NLT  

THE TESTIMONY 

You are engaged in a most important work, and I feel a deep interest in all of you. 

I pray that you may all work in such a way that many souls shall be brought to a knowledge of the truth for this time... The end is nearer than when we first believed. Keep your eyes fixed steadfastly on Jesus. Seek the Lord daily for a new consecration. 

Often ask yourselves the question, “What must I do to be saved?” Then search your Bibles, and pray earnestly for the impartation of the Holy Spirit, that you may understand the truth as it is in Jesus. 

Remember that you are workers together with God, and that your hearts are to be purified from all defilement. Put away all strife, all evil speaking and evil thinking. 

Truth in the heart guides us to Christ who is the author of all truth, and the only one who can cleanse the soul from defilement. The practice of the principles of truth fills the soul with peace. 

The Lord wants wise men and women, acting in the capacity of nurses, to comfort and help the sick and suffering. Through the ministrations of these nurses, those who have heretofore taken no interest in religious things will be led to ask, “What must I do to be saved?” 

The sick will be led to Christ by the patient attention of nurses who anticipate their wants, and who bow in prayer and ask the great Medical Missionary to look with compassion upon the sufferer, and to let the soothing influence of his grace be felt, and his restoring power be exercised. 

Let our physicians and nurses ever bear in mind the words, “We are laborers together with God.” Let every physician and every nurse learn how to work for the alleviation of mental as well as physical suffering. 

As our nurses minister patiently to those who are sick in body and soul, let them ask God to work for the suffering ones, that they may be led to know Christ, and let them believe that their prayers will be answered. In all that is done, let the love of Christ be revealed. 

— The Review and Herald, February 2, 1905 

THE RESPONSE 

Pray that you may work in such a way that will bring many souls to a knowledge of the truth.

Search your Bible and pray earnestly for the impartation of the Holy Spirit that you may understand the truth as it is in Jesus. 

Bow in prayer and ask the great Medical Missionary to look with compassion on the sufferer, to let the soothing influence of His grace be felt and His restoring power be exercised.

Ask God to work for the suffering ones that they may be led to know Christ and believe that their prayers will be answered.