Prayer and Promises

THE PROMISE 

Now may the God of peace...equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.

— Hebrews 13:20,21, HCSB 

THE TESTIMONY 

Remember constantly your need of a union with Christ. United with Him, you will bring into your work the fragrance of His character, and your well-ordered life will be a blessing. 

The sanctifying presence of God will be with you as you seek to do His will with a sincere desire to glorify Him. 

May the Lord help you, and bless your efforts. The number of our missionaries is not half large enough. The fields are white, ready to harvest, but the laborers are few. God is waiting to endow you with power from on high, that you may go forth to work for Him. 

Live in this world to some purpose. If you waste the life God has given you, when Christ comes to gather His children home you will have no place in the mansions that He is preparing for those that love Him. 

When you rise in the morning, kneel at your bedside and ask God to give you strength to fulfill the duties of the day and to meet its temptations. Ask Him to help you to bring into your work Christ’s sweetness of character. Ask Him to help you to speak words that will draw those around you nearer to Christ. 

God wants you to receive the wisdom that He has for you. He wants you to be Bible students and Bible believers, living in obedience to the words, “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” Then He can bestow on you the power of His truth. 

Living in conformity to Christ’s will, you will be changed into His likeness. You will grow up into Him, and at last the pearly gates of the holy city will for you swing back on their glittering hinges, and you will enter to hear the words, “Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”... you will join with the redeemed host in filling all heaven with songs of praise to God and His Son. 

— Australasian Union Conference Record, January 15, 1903 

THE RESPONSE 

May the Lord help you, and bless your efforts. May He endow you with power from on high as you go forth to work for Him. 

In the morning kneel at your bedside and ask God to give you strength to fulfill the duties of the day and to meet its temptations. 

Ask Him to help you to bring into your work Christ’s sweetness of character. 

Ask Him to help you to speak words that will draw those around you nearer to Christ.