The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

O Lord! we come to set wide open the doors of our beloved home to
Thee, and to place it with our whole family life at the disposal, under
the rule, of Thy Holy Spirit. We beseech Thee, let Him take possession.
As parents we desire to claim the fulfillment of the promise. May our
love to our children and our desires for them, our daily intercourse with
them and our influence on them, all be under the continual
overshadowing of Thy Holy Spirit. May our whole life, the invisible
atmosphere that surrounds us and that fills our home, be that which
Thy Holy Spirit breathes, holiness to the Lord.
We claim the promise for our children. We desire, in simple, childlike
faith, to count upon it, as a settled thing between Thee and us, that they
are the heirs of the promise of the Spirit. Give us grace, O Father, as
often as we see in them signs of evil that make us sad, tendencies and
dispositions that make us fear, or influences around them that bring
danger; oh, give us grace to plead the promise in the assurance of faith!
0 our Father! we would live ourselves, we would guide our home life, we
would train each child day by day under the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Teach Thou it us. May the holy reverence, the deep, quiet joy, the tender
watchfulness, the death to self and the flesh, the life of faith in Jesus,
which mark His presence, ever be ours. Amen.
Forty-Fourth Day – Parental Self-Culture
You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? ’ Rom. 2: 21.
Nothing can be more inconsistent and vain than the attempt to teach
others without teaching ourselves. It is in ordinary instruction only
what the teacher is really master of and has thoroughly made his own,
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