Quotes from Chapter 12 that enlightened and uplifted me... have a read!
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"When one is encompassed with clouds, perplexed by circumstances, or afflicted by poverty or distress, Satan is at hand to tempt and annoy. He attacks our weak points of character. He seeks to shake our confidence in God, who suffers such a condition of things to exist. We are tempted to distrust God, to question his love. Often the tempter comes to us as he came to Christ, arraying before us our weakness and infirmities. He hopes to discourage the soul, and to break our hold on God. Then he is sure of his prey. If we would meet him as Jesus did, we should escape many a defeat. By parleying with the enemy, we give him an advantage."
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"In the wilderness, when all means of sustenance failed, God sent His people manna [Deut. 8:2, 3] from heaven; and a sufficient and constant supply was given. This provision was to teach them that while they trusted in God and walked in His ways He would not forsake them."
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"In the presence of the witnessing universe, He testifies that it is less calamity to suffer whatever may befall than to depart in any manner from the will of God."
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" "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God."
Often the follower of Christ is brought where he cannot serve God and carry forward his worldly enterprises. Perhaps it appears that obedience to some plain requirement of God will cut off his means of support. Satan would make him believe that he must sacrifice his conscientious convictions.
But the only thing in our world upon which we can rely is the word of God.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Matt.6:33. Even in this life it is not for our good to depart from the will of our Father in heaven. While we learn the power of His word, we shall not follow the suggestions of Satan in order to obtain food or to save our lives. Our only questions will be, What is God's command? and what His promise? Knowing these, we shall obey the one, and trust the other."
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"In all ages, temptations appealing to the physical nature have been more effectual in corrupting and degrading mankind. Through intemperance, Satan works to destroy the mental and moral powers that God gave to man as a priceless endowment. Thus it becomes impossible for men to appreciate things of eternal worth. Through sensual indulgence, Satan seeks to blot from the soul every trace of likeness to God."
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"Upon the very verge of that fearful time we are now living, and to us should come home the lesson of the Saviour's fast [in the wilderness]. Only by the inexpressible anguish which Christ endured can we estimate the evil of unrestrained indulgence. His example declares that our only hope of eternal life is through bringing the appetites and passions into subjection to the will of God."
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"Let him who is struggling against the power of appetite look to the saviour in the wilderness of temptation. See Him in His agony upon the cross, as He exclaimed, "I thirst." He has endured all that it is possible for us to bear.
His victory is ours."
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"Only by the word of God could He resist temptation. "It is written," He said. And unto us are given "exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." 2 Peter 1:4.
Every promise in God's word is ours.
"By every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" are we to live."
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"When assailed by temptation, look not to circumstances or to the weakness of self, but to the power of the word. All it's strength is yours. "Thy word," says the psalmist, "have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee." "By the word of Thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer." Ps. 119:11; 17:4."
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PS: All E.G. White's writings are Bible based.
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