Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

known that it is the Lord, and that their works are
wrought in God.
Faith and Obedience
Said Christ, “If any man serve Me, him will My
Father honor.” When we come to Him we should
pray that we might enter into and accomplish His
purpose, and that our desires and interests might be
lost in His. We should acknowledge our acceptance
of His will, not praying Him to concede to ours. It
is better for us that God does not always answer
our prayers just when we desire and in just the
manner we wish. He will do more and better for us
than to accomplish all our wishes; for our wisdom
is folly.
We have united in earnest prayer around the
sickbed of men, women, and children, and have felt
that they were given back to us from the dead in
answer to our earnest prayers. In these prayers we
thought we must be positive, and if we exercised
faith, that we must ask for nothing less than life.
We dared not say, “If it will glorify God,“ fearing
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