Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2 - Second Advent Revival

precious privilege of prayer. We should go to Jesus and tell Him all our needs. We may
bring Him our little cares and perplexities as well as our greater troubles. Whatever
arises to disturb or distress us, we should take it to the Lord in prayer. When we feel
that we need the presence of Christ at every step, Satan will have little opportunity to
intrude his temptations. It is his studied effort to keep us away from our best and most
sympathizing friend. We should make no one our confidant but Jesus. We can safely
commune with Him of all that is in our hearts.--5T 200, 201 (1882). {2MCP 776.1}
A Caution Concerning Confessions.--Never encourage men to look to you for
wisdom. When men come to you for counsel, point them to the One who reads the
motives of every heart. A different spirit must come into our ministerial work. No
persons must act as confessors; no man must be exalted as supreme. Our work is to
humble self and to exalt Christ before the people. After His resurrection, the Saviour
promised that His power would be with all who would go forth in His name. Let this
power and this name be exalted. We need to keep continually before our minds the
prayer of Christ when He prayed that self might be sanctified by truth and
righteousness.--MS 137, 1907. (2SM 170.) {2MCP 776.2}
Do Not Confess Secret Sins to Humans Unless Led by Holy Spirit.--Present
these thoughts to the persons who come asking for your prayers: we are human; we
cannot read the heart or know the secrets of your life. These are known only to yourself
and God. {2MCP 776.3}
If you now repent of your sin, if any of you can see that in any instance you have
walked contrary to the light given you of God and have neglected to give honor to the
body, the temple of God, but by wrong habits have degraded the body which is Christ's
property, make confession of these things to God. Unless you are wrought upon by the
Holy Spirit in
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special manner to confess your sins of private nature to man, do not breathe them to
any soul.--Our Camp Meetings, pp 44, 45, 1892. (CH 373, 374.) {2MCP 776.4}
Make God Man's Confessor.--Everyone needs a practical experience in trusting
God for himself. Let no man become your confessor; open the heart to God; tell Him
every secret of the soul. Bring to Him your difficulties, small and great, and He will show
you a way out of them all. He alone can know how to give the very help you need.--GW
418 (1915). {2MCP 777.1}
I Have Confessed to God; He Has Forgiven My Sin. --It is not praiseworthy to talk
of our weakness and discouragement. Let each one say, "I am grieved that I yield to
temptation, that my prayers are so feeble, my faith so weak. I have no excuse to plead
for being dwarfed in my religious life. But I am seeking to obtain completeness of
character in Christ. I have sinned, and yet I love Jesus. I have fallen many times, and
yet He has reached out His hand to save me. I have told Him all about my mistakes. I
have confessed with shame and sorrow that I have dishonored Him. I have looked to