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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 26, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 13.

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PRAYER

Opportunity in the Prayer Life

(Concluded)
THE hour of opportunity lies near the hour of prayer; and the life that loves prayer is the life that gets the opportunities to do good. To live near to God is the true secret of living near to man. It keeps the heart open and the eyes open for every hour of helpful opportunity. And then the praying life has always something to give. It may not be silver and gold: the praying life is not always the life that has money to spare; but every life that knows the rich communion with God will always have something to give that other souls need.
Blessed thought! Our lives need never be poor. We need never feel that circumstances have limited us so that we can not do for others; because “of His fullness have all we received, and grace for grace.” Peter and John had something better than silver and gold to give: and filled with the fullness of God through the constant intercourse of our souls with Him, we shall always have a wealth of strength to spare for others. As we pass through each “Beautiful Gate” of life, some soul at our side that has lived a crippled life, not knowing the joy of progress, shall leap up and join us, and go with us into the temple of service.