Prayer

may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.” Look unto Jesus at
all times and in all places, offering a silent prayer from a sincere heart that you may
know how to do His will. Then when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit
of the Lord will lift up a standard for you against the enemy. When you are almost
ready to yield, to lose patience and self-control, to be hard and denunciatory, to find
fault and accuse—this is the time for you to send to heaven the prayer, “Help me,
O God, to resist temptation, to put all bitterness and wrath and evil-speaking out of
my heart. Give me Thy meekness, Thy lowliness, Thy longsuffering, and Thy love.
Leave me not to dishonor my Redeemer, to misinterpret the words and motives of my
wife, my children, and my brethren and sisters in the faith. Help me that I may be
kind, pitiful, tenderhearted, forgiving. Help me to be a real house-band in my home
and to represent the character of Christ to others.”(The Adventist Home, 214, 215.)
We know the dangers and temptations that beset the youth at the present time are
not few or small.... We live in an age when to resist evil calls for constant watchfulness
and prayer. God’s precious Word is the standard for youth who would be loyal to the
King of heaven. Let them study the Scriptures. Let them commit text after text to
memory, and acquire a knowledge of what the Lord has said.... And in trial let the
youth spread out the Word of God before them, and with humble hearts, and in faith,
seek the Lord for wisdom to find out His way, and for strength to walk in it....
Let our young men institute a warfare against every habit that has the least danger
of leading the soul from duty and devotion. Let them have stated seasons for prayer,
never neglecting them if it can possibly be avoided. If they go out to battle with their
vicious habits indulged as before they professed fellowship with Christ, they will
soon fall an easy prey to Satan’s devices. But armed with the Word of God, having it
treasured in heart and mind, they will come forth unharmed by all the assaults of the
foes of God or man.—(My Life Today, 315.)
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