Those who travel in the narrow way are talking of the joy and happiness they will have at the end of the journey. Their countenances are often sad, yet often beam with holy, sacred joy.  They do not dress like the company in the broad road, or talk like them, or act like them.  A Pattern has been given them.  A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief opened that road for them, and traveled it Himself.  His followers see His footsteps and are comforted and cheered.  He went through safely; so can they, if they follow His footsteps.  {MYP 126.1}

Look up, you that are doubting and trembling; for Jesus lives to make intercession for us.  Thank God for the gift of His dear Son and pray that He may not have died for you in vain.  The Spirit invites you today.  Come with your whole heart to Jesus, and you may claim His blessing.  {SC 54.3} 

As you read the promises, remember they are the expression of unutterable love and pity.  The great heart of Infinite Love is drawn toward the sinner with boundless compassion.  "We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins."  Ephesians 1:7.  Yes, only believe that God is your helper.  He wants to restore His moral image in man.  As you draw near to Him with confession and repentance, He will draw near to you with mercy and forgiveness.  {SC 55.1} 

Have there not been some bright spots in your experience?  Have you not had some precious seasons when your heart throbbed with joy in response to the Spirit of God?  When you look back into the chapters of your life experience do you not find some pleasant pages?  Are not God's promises, like the fragrant flowers, growing beside your path on every hand?  Will you not let their beauty and sweetness fill your heart with joy?  {SC 117.1} 

The course of God's people should be upward and onward to victory.  A greater than Joshua is leading on the armies of Israel.  One is in our midst, even the Captain of our salvation, who has said for our encouragement: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."  "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."  He will lead us on to certain victory.  What God promises, He is able at any time to perform.  And the work He gives His people to do, He is able to accomplish by them.  If we live a life of perfect obedience, His promises will be fulfilled toward us.  {2T 122.1} 

In this time of trial we need to be encouraged and comforted by one another.  The temptations of Satan are greater now than ever before, for he knows that his time is short and that very soon every case will be decided, either for life or for death.  It is no time now to sink down beneath discouragement and trial; we must bear up under all our afflictions and trust wholly in the Almighty God of Jacob.  The Lord has shown me that His grace is sufficient for all our trials; and although they are greater than ever before, yet if we trust wholly in God, we can overcome every temptation and through His grace come off victorious.  {EW 46.1}

If our minds are open to the impressions of the Spirit of God, we may learn lessons from the simple and beautiful things of nature.  I feel oppressed in the crowded cities where there is naught for the eyes to look upon but houses.  The flowers are to us constant teachers.  The shrubs and flowers gather to themselves the properties of earth and air which they appropriate to perfect the beautiful buds and blossoming flowers for our happiness, but they are God's preachers, and we are to consider the lessons which they teach us.  {TMK 213.2} 

Just so has God given us the precious promises throughout His Word.  The Scriptures are open to us as the garden of God, and their promises are as fragrant flowers blooming all over that garden.  God especially calls our attention to the very ones that are appropriate for us.  In these promises we may discern the character of God and read His love to us.  They are the ground upon which our faith rests, the support and strength of our faith and hope, and through these we are to delight our souls in God and breathe in the fragrance of heaven.  Through the precious promises He withdraws the veil from the future and gives us glimpses of the things which He has prepared for those who love Him ... {TMK 213.3} 

Obstacles to the advancement of the work of God will appear; but fear not.  To the omnipotence of the King of kings, our covenant-keeping God unites the gentleness and care of a tender shepherd.  Nothing can stand in His way.  His power is absolute, and it is the pledge of the sure fulfillment of His promises to His people.  He can remove all obstructions to the advancement of His work.  He has means for the removal of every difficulty, that those who serve Him and respect the means He employs may be delivered.  His goodness and love are infinite, and His covenant is unalterable.  {8T 10.3} 

God scatters blessings all along our path to brighten our journey and lead our hearts out to love and praise Him, and He wants us to draw water from the well of salvation that our hearts may be refreshed.  We may sing the songs of Zion, we may cheer our own hearts, and we may cheer the hearts of others; hope may be strengthened, darkness turned to light.  God has not left us in a dark world -- as pilgrims and strangers seeking a better country, even an heavenly -- without giving us precious promises to lighten every burden.  The borders of our path are strewn with fair flowers of promise.  They blossom all around, sending forth rich fragrance.  {OHC 10.2} 

A true knowledge of the Bible can be gained only through the aid of that Spirit by whom the word was given.  And in order to gain this knowledge we must live by it.  All that God's word commands, we are to obey.  All that it promises, we may claim.  The life which it enjoins is the life that, through its power, we are to live.  Only as the Bible is thus held can it be studied effectively.  {Ed 189.2} 

Christ will never abandon the soul for whom He has died.  The soul may leave Him and be overwhelmed with temptation, but Christ can never turn from one for whom He has paid the ransom of His own life.  Could our spiritual vision be quickened, we should see souls bowed under oppression and burdened with grief, pressed as a cart beneath sheaves and ready to die in discouragement.  We should see angels flying swiftly to aid these tempted ones, who are standing as on the brink of a precipice.  The angels from heaven force back the hosts of evil that encompass these souls, and guide them to plant their feet on the sure foundation.  The battles waging between the two armies are as real as those fought by the armies of this world, and on the issue of the spiritual conflict eternal destinies depend.  {MB 118.4} 

(N). Psalm 107:29 

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."  Such a promise is of more value than gold or silver.  If with a humble heart you seek divine guidance in every trouble and perplexity, His word is pledged that a gracious answer will be given you.  And His word can never fail.  Heaven and earth may pass away, but His word will never pass away.  Trust in the Lord, and you will never be confounded or ashamed.  "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.  It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes."  {5T 427.1} 

Christ in the weakness of humanity was to meet the temptations of one possessing the powers of the higher nature that God had bestowed on the angelic family.  But Christ's humanity was united with divinity, and in this strength He would bear all the temptations that Satan could bring against Him, and yet keep His soul untainted by sin.  And this power to overcome He would give to every son and daughter of Adam who would accept by faith the righteous attributes of His character.  {1SM 223.3} 

God loved the world so dearly that He gave His only-begotten Son that whosoever would accept Him might have power to live His righteous life.  Christ proved that it is possible for man to lay hold by faith on the power of God.  He showed that the sinner, by repentance and the exercise of faith in the righteousness of Christ, can be reconciled to God, and become a partaker of the divine nature, overcoming the corruption that is in the world through lust.  {1SM 223.4} 

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7. {TMK 245.1} 

Our work is to "resist the devil," not harbor his doubts; and if we do this, the promise is "he will flee from you."  {TMK 245.2} 

But the question is often asked, How can I resist Satan?  There is only one way by which you can do this, and that is by faith, taking Christ as your helper and pleading with Him for strength.  When Satan suggests doubt to your soul, when he tells you that you are too unworthy, too sinful, to realize the blessing of God, present Christ before him as your Advocate and Saviour.  Tell him you know that you are a sinner, but that Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost.  He came "not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance" (Mark 2:17).  {TMK 245.3} 

Repeat His promises: "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37) ... "Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me" (Isaiah 27:5).  "Whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Matthew 21:22).  Be simplehearted enough to believe these promises of God.  When Satan comes to you, and tells you that because you are unhappy, perplexed, and troubled you are not a child of God, do not become discouraged for one moment, but gird up the loins of your mind.  Let your heart repose in God.  He has promised that if you come to Him, you shall find rest to your soul; and if you have done this, rest assured that He will fulfill His word in you ... {TMK 245.4} 

Many pass long years in darkness and doubt because they do not feel as they desire.  But feeling has nothing to do with faith.  That faith which works by love and purifies the soul is not a matter of impulse.  It ventures out upon the promises of God, firmly believing that what He has said, He is able also to perform.  Our souls may be trained to believe, taught to rely upon the Word of God.  That Word declares that "the just shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17), not by feeling.  {TMK 245.5}