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The Ministry of Healing
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afar off, let the many who are at home feel the burden of precious
souls who are around them, and work just as diligently for their
salvation.
Many regret that they are living a narrow life. They themselves
can make their life broad and influential if they will. Those who love
Jesus with heart and mind and soul, and their neighbor as themselves,
have a wide field in which to use their ability and influence.
Little Opportunities
Let none pass by little opportunities, to look for larger work. You
might do successfully the small work, but fail utterly in attempting
the larger work, and fall into discouragement. It is by doing with
your might what you find to do that you will develop aptitude for
larger work. It is by slighting the daily opportunities, by neglecting
the little things right at hand, that so many become fruitless and
withered.
Do not depend upon human aid. Look beyond human beings to
the One appointed by God to bear our griefs, to carry our sorrows,
and to supply our necessities. Taking God at His word, make a
beginning wherever you find work to do, and move forward with
unfaltering faith. It is faith in Christ’s presence that gives strength
and steadfastness. Work with unselfish interest, with painstaking
effort, with persevering energy.
In fields where the conditions are so objectionable and disheart-
ening that many are unwilling to go to them, remarkable changes
have been wrought by the efforts of self-sacrificing
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him
that believeth.”
Mark 9:23
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workers. Patiently and perseveringly they labored, not relying upon
human power, but upon God, and His grace sustained them. The
amount of good thus accomplished will never be known in this world,
but blessed results will be seen in the great hereafter.