"God's Benevolence God gives to us regularly, freely, abundantly. Every earthly blessing is from His hand. What if the Lord should cease to bestow His gifts upon us? What a cry of wretchedness, suffering, and want would go up from the earth! We need daily the unfailing flow of Jehovah's goodness. 9T 49"
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
The EGW passage directly echoes the principle in James 1:17 that every good gift comes from God. The language and concept are very similar.
"Christ became poor that we might be partakers of the “far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” 2 Corinthians 4:17 . We are to practice the same self-sacrifice that led Him to give Himself up to the death of the cross, to make it possible for human beings to have eternal life. In all our expenditure of means we are to strive to fulfill the purpose of Him who is the alpha and omega of all Christian effort. 9T 49.2"
"For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;"
Ellen White directly references 2 Corinthians 4:17 in this passage.