Thoughts

We do not ask, and therefore we do not receive. We do not knock, and so the door is not opened to us. We do not seek, and thus we do not find. 

The challenge to the missionary does not come from the fact that people are difficult to bring to salvation, that backsliders are difficult to reclaim, or that there is a barrier of callous indifference ...

God often uses suffering and difficulties to educate us and make us more like Christ...

God does work all things together for good. We know it because the Bible says it. Faith appropriates it, even when we cannot see or understand...

The Bible gives us impressive examples of people who gave glory to God in suffering. Just think of Job...

When John Scudder, a missionary to India, was asked how he accounted for the fact that all his nine children also became missionaries, he replied ...

When a person is yielded to God, every day has its appointed program. Nothing can thwart the accomplishing of that program...

Instead of clinging to what we have received by grace, we may give it back and entrust it to Him Who, with His mighty hand, can make all things great and give strength...

Just as the light shines brightest in the darkness, God is often most glorified when we trust Him in suffering and persevere in it...

Prayer preserves us from resignation and at the same time helps us to overcome circumstances that are likely to depress us...