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6121 Counsels for the Church, p. 151.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God. If one of your children were in the river, battling with the waves and in imminent danger of drowning, what a stir there would be! What efforts would be …
6122 Counsels for the Church, p. 151.4 (Ellen Gould White)
… from God; and he is successful in his purpose when the religious life is drowned in business cares, when he can so absorb their minds in business that they will …
6123 Counsels for the Church, p. 151.5 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God for help. Your dear ones are exposed to temptation. Daily annoyances beset the path of young and old. Those who would live patient, loving, cheerful lives …
6124 Counsels for the Church, p. 152.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… against God breaks out in the life. Enslaved by sin, the moral powers are under the tyranny of Satan. The soul is made the sport of his temptations; and unless …
6125 Counsels for the Church, p. 152.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… honor God in the home; they do not teach their children to love and fear Him. Many have separated themselves so far from Him that they feel under condemnation …
6126 Counsels for the Church, p. 152.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… with God, the Fountain of wisdom, the Source of strength, and peace, and happiness. Jesus prayed to the Father “with strong crying and tears.” Paul exhorts believers …
6127 Counsels for the Church, p. 152.4 (Ellen Gould White)
By sincere, earnest prayer parents should make a hedge about their children. They should pray with full faith that God will abide with them and that holy angels will guard them and their children from Satan's cruel power.
6128 Counsels for the Church, p. 152.6 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God for that day. Make no calculation for months or years; these are not yours. One brief day is given you. As if it were your last on earth, work during its hours …
6129 Counsels for the Church, p. 152.7 (Ellen Gould White)
… felt. God is dishonored when the hour of worship is made dry and irksome, when it is so tedious, so lacking in interest, that the children dread it
6130 Counsels for the Church, p. 153.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… praise God for His goodness and ask Him for help. As circumstances permit, let the children join in the reading and the prayer.
6131 Counsels for the Church, p. 154.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God's bounties. Lavishness is also an abuse. The little outgoes that you think of as not worth mentioning amount to considerable in the end.
6132 Counsels for the Church, p. 155.8 (Ellen Gould White)
God is not honored when the body is neglected or abused and is thus unfitted for His service. To care for the body by providing for it food that is relishable …
6133 Counsels for the Church, p. 155.12 (Ellen Gould White)
God does not require that His people should deprive themselves of that which is really necessary for their health and comfort, but He does not approve of wantonness and extravagance and display. The Adventist Home, 378, 379
6134 Counsels for the Church, p. 156.1 (Ellen Gould White)
… that God has a claim upon all they possess, and that nothing can ever cancel this claim; all they have is theirs only in trust, to prove whether they will be obedient …
6135 Counsels for the Church, p. 158 (Ellen Gould White)
Making God's Cause First
6136 Counsels for the Church, p. 158.6 (Ellen Gould White)
… unto God, when we could revive in our minds the memory of His dealing with us? Would it not be well to consider His past blessings, to remember the impressive …
6137 Counsels for the Church, p. 158.8 (Ellen Gould White)
… of God more frequently have holy convocations in which to thank God for His rich blessings? We want men in the church who have ability to develop in the line …
6138 Counsels for the Church, p. 159 (Ellen Gould White)
Birthdays—A Time to Praise God
6139 Counsels for the Church, p. 159.2 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God, by His own appointment. Now we see parents taking special pains to present gifts to their children upon their birthdays; they make this an occasion …
6140 Counsels for the Church, p. 159.3 (Ellen Gould White)
… to God for His loving-kindness in preserving their lives for another year. Precious lessons might thus be given. For life, health, food, and clothing, no less …