Prayer and Promises

The Promise

Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted.

— Galatians 6:1, CSB 

The Testimony

My dear brethren and sisters, take an active part in the work of soul-saving. This work will give life and vigor to the mental and spiritual powers. 

Consecrate yourselves wholly to the work of God. He is your strength, and he will be at your right hand, helping you to carry out his merciful designs. By personal labor reach those around you. Become acquainted with them. Preaching will not do the work that needs to be done. Angels of God attend you to the dwellings of those you visit… By visiting people, talking, praying, sympathizing with them, you will win hearts. This is the highest missionary work that you can do. 

Find access to the people in whose neighborhood you live. As you tell them of the truth, use words of Christlike sympathy. Remember that the Lord Jesus is the Master Worker. He waters the seed sown. He puts into your minds words that will reach hearts. 

In the truth there is a living power. Go forth in faith, and proclaim the truth as if you believed it. Let those for whom you labor see that to you it is indeed a living reality. 

We do not value as we should the power and efficacy of prayer. “The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us…” God desires us to come to him in prayer, that he may enlighten our minds. He alone can give clear conceptions of truth. He alone can soften and subdue the heart… Pray then; pray without ceasing. 

Before you present any subject to the people, talk with God in prayer. Hide self in Jesus. Receive the Holy Spirit, and then, in the power of this Spirit, speak to the people. Be sure that you are standing where you can be worked by the Spirit, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know…what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power.” 

— The Review and Herald, March 24, 1904 

The Response 

Father God, I consecrate myself fully to Your work. Be with me and give me Christlike compassion as I visit and pray with neighbors. Help me to carry out Your divine purposes. I ask for the Holy Spirit to open my eyes and heart that I may understand the greatness of Your power to be my strength as I share truths. I hide myself in You, for You are the Master Worker!