Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

You must pray as though the efficiency and praise
were all due to God, and labor as though duty were
all your own. If you want power you may have it,
as it is awaiting your draft upon it. Only believe in
God, take Him at His word, act by faith, and
blessings will come.
In this matter, genius, logic, and eloquence will
not avail. Those who have a humble, trusting,
contrite heart, God accepts and hears their prayer;
and when God helps, all obstacles will be
overcome. How many men of great natural abilities
and high scholarship have failed when placed in
positions of responsibility, while those of feebler
intellect, with less favorable surroundings, have
been wonderfully successful. The secret was, the
former trusted to themselves, while the latter united
with Him who is wonderful in counsel and mighty
in working to accomplish what He will.
Your work being always urgent, it is difficult
for you to secure time for meditation and prayer;
but this you must not fail to do. The blessing of
Heaven, obtained by daily supplication, will be as
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