Grateful for the testimonies

I am humbled and filled with much gratitude for the testimonies.I am blessed to be able to make use of these books.I encourage each one of you,to make use of these books.Not only are they inspired but they provide practicalness and help us to understand things not clear/not expanded in God's word.And last but not least,they make us know God's will!

"To the  law and to the testimony,if they speak not according to this word,there is no light in them(paraphrased)"-Isaiah 8:20. They aid us to test whether doctrines are true and of God!Like the word of God,they bring change in us :)!

These quotes blessed me today.

When brought into trial, we are not to fret and complain. We should not rebel, or worry ourselves out of the hand of Christ. We are to humble the soul before God. The ways of the Lord are obscure to him who desires to see things in a light pleasing to himself. They appear dark and joyless to our human nature. But God's ways are ways of mercy and the end is salvation.-DA,p301

No mere external change is sufficient to bring us into harmony with God. There are many who try to reform by correcting this or that bad habit, and they hope in this way to become Christians, but they are beginning in the wrong place. Our first work is with the heart.-DA,p97

The grace of simplicity, meekness, and true affection would make a paradise of the humblest home.-CG,p142

Above all things else, let parents surround their children with an atmosphere of cheerfulness, courtesy, and love. A home where love dwells, and where it is expressed in looks, in words, and in acts, is a place where angels delight to manifest their presence.

Parents, let the sunshine of love, cheerfulness, and happy contentment enter your own hearts; and let its sweet, cheering influence pervade your home. Manifest a kindly, forbearing spirit; and encourage the same in your children, cultivating all the graces that will brighten the home life. The atmosphere thus created will be to the children what air and sunshine are to the vegetable world, promoting health and vigor of mind and body.1The Ministry of Healing, 386, 387.