When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of relying on God in all circumstances, whether in solitude or surrounded by support.
Charles Spurgeon's quote encourages individuals to find strength and assurance in God, regardless of their situation. It suggests that in times of loneliness, one should recognize God as their only helper, while in times of abundance, one should see God's presence in their blessings and in others. Ultimately, Spurgeon emphasizes maintaining faith and focus on God as the constant throughout life's varying circumstances.
In practice
In a church sermon discussing reliance on faith during hardships.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
At the end of the day, everything is God's plan, and he cares about what we do. He cares about our hearts, how we play the game, and how we treat people. He's definitely involved with how we handle sports and not just the outcome of it. I'm proud when athletes mention God in any way.
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.
The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.
In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.
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