Prayer

to obtain it you will prize it the more when obtained. You are plainly told that if you
waver you need not think that you shall receive anything of the Lord. A caution is
here given not to become weary, but to rest firmly upon the promise. If you ask, He
will give you liberally and upbraid not.—(Testimonies for the Church 2:131.)
“Ask, and ye shall receive.” The assurance is broad and unlimited, and He is
faithful who has promised. We sometimes fail in faith because Infinite Wisdom does
not come to our terms. When for any reason we do not receive the very things we ask
for at the time we ask, we are still to believe that the Lord hears, and that He will give
us those things that are best for us. His own glory is a sufficient reason for sometimes
withholding what we ask for, and answering our prayers in a manner that we did not
expect. But we are to cling to the promise; for the time of answering will come, and
we shall receive the blessings we need most.—(The Signs of the Times, August 21,
1884.)
God does not always answer as we expect, but always for our good.—Ask,
then; ask, and ye shall receive. Ask for humility, wisdom, courage, increase of faith.
To every sincere prayer an answer will come. It may not come just as you desire, or at
the time you look for it; but it will come in the way and at the time that will best meet
your need. The prayers you offer in loneliness, in weariness, in trial, God answers,
not always according to your expectations, but always for your good.—(Messages to
Young People, 250.)
While you prayed in your affliction for peace in Christ, a cloud of darkness
seemed to blacken across your mind. The rest and peace did not come as you
expected. At times your faith seemed to be tested to the utmost. As you looked
back to your past life, you saw sorrow and disappointment; as you viewed the future,
all was uncertainty. The divine Hand led you wondrously to bring you to the cross
and to teach you that God was indeed a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Those who ask aright will receive. He that seeketh in faith shall find. The experience
gained in the furnace
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