17/08/2021
[8/17, 21:34] +263 77 399 0409: *Experience of Others a Warning* βπΏβπΏ
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*Mr. A has a nature that Satan plays upon with wonderful success. This case is one that should teach the young a lesson in regard to marriage. His wife followed feeling and impulse, not reason and judgment, in selecting a companion. Was their marriage the result of true loveββ? No, no; it was the result of impulseβblind, unsanctified passion.ππΎββοΈππΎββοΈ Neither was at all fitted for the responsibilities of married life. When the novelty of the new order of things wore away, and each became acquainted with the other, did their love become stronger, their affection deeper, and their lives blend together in beautiful harmony? It was entirely the opposite. The worst traits of their characters began to deepen by exercise; and, instead of their married life being one of happiness, it has been one of increasing trouble*.8 Testimonies For The Church 5, 121, 122. - AH 85.2
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[8/17, 21:40] +263 77 399 0409: That night we bowed in prayer and presented his case before the Lord. We entreated that we might know the will of God concerning him. *All we desired was that God might be glorified. Would the Lord have us pray for this afflicted man? We left the burden with the Lord and retired to rest. In a dream the case of that man was clearly presented. His course from his childhood up was shown, and that if we should pray, the Lord would not hear us, for he regarded iniquity in his heart. *The next morning the man came for us to pray for him. We took him aside and told him we were sorry to be compelled to refuse his request. I related my dream, which he acknowledged was true. He had practiced self-abuse from his boyhood up, and he had continued the practice during his married life, but said he would try to break himself of it.* This man had a long-established habit to overcome. He was in the middle age of life. His moral