Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

when part of them are united to the world and
many are given to covetousness, which God
abhors, He can do but little for them. Unbelief and
sin shut them away from God. We are so weak that
we cannot bear much spiritual prosperity, lest we
take the glory and accredit goodness and
righteousness to ourselves as the reason of the
signal blessing of God, when it was all because of
the great mercy and loving-kindness of our
compassionate heavenly Father and not because
any good was found in us.
Faith and Works
[Health, Philanthropic, and Medical Missionary
Work, 51-54 (1892).] In praying for the sick, it is
essential to have faith; for it is in accordance with
the word of God. “The effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.” James 5:16. So we
cannot discard praying for the sick, and we should
feel very sad if we could not have the privilege of
approaching God, to lay before Him all our
weaknesses and our infirmities, to tell the
compassionate Saviour all about these things,
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