The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

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which the Lord has given me!’ We are inseparably and eternally one. Hope is the child of faith and love. Faith is its strength for waiting and watching, love its strength for willing and working. Hope ever looks forward. It sees even in this life, when things are dark, the Unseen God coming through the clouds to fulfill His word. It sings the song of victory, when others see nought but defeat. Amid all the struggles through which it may see a loved child passing, amid all trials of faith and patience it speaks: `In His word do I hope: I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more.’ Through its own buoyant tone it inspires with hopefulness the children when discouraged in the fight with evil; it seeks to be the morning-star of the home. It looks forward to each one of the circle being not only a saved one, but a sanctified one, fit for the Master’s service here on earth. And as often as it looks for the blessed hope, the appearing of our Lord Jesus, and the glory that is to follow, it rejoices in the full assurance of an unbroken family circle in heaven. It even now trembles with joy as it thinks of the privilege that awaits it, when the Son has presented Himself with His brethren in His `Behold, I and the children God has given me,’ of also coming forward to fall down and worship and say likewise, `Father, behold! here am I too, and the children which You have given me.’ May God teach us to rejoice in this hope! `Now the God of hope fill your hearts with joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Ghost.’ Behold, I and the children which God hath given me:’ beloved fellowbelievers, whom God has honored to be parents, shall we not seek to have the spirit of these words breathe through our whole home life? It is God who has given us the children; it is He who regards them as one with us in His covenant and blessing, and teaches us to regard them so too. It is His love which calls and fits for a life of self-sacrifice and 276
unselfishness; it is His grace which will accept and give success to our efforts to be one, perfectly one with our children in the power of faith and love and hope. In God’s sight and promise we are one; in our life and love and labor let us be one with them too; we shall be one through the glory of eternity. Our gracious Father! we do thank You for all the blessed teaching of Your Holy Word concerning our children. We thank You that it has set them before us in Your own light, as created by You, ruined by sin, redeemed in Christ, and now entrusted to us to keep and care for, while the Holy Spirit renews them to Your eternal life and glory. We thank You that You Yourself have come as our Teacher to fit us for teaching them. We pray to You for Your blessing on each word of Yours, that we may indeed become such parents as You would have us be. O Lord, we pray to You to establish in our thoughts and hearts and lives all the wonderful truths that gather round the home life. We would count Your covenant and its promises as exceeding precious to us. Our faith would see the names You give to our children, children of the covenant, of the promise, of the kingdom, as written on their foreheads. We would treasure all the promises of Your Spirit and Your blessing as their sacred heritage. We would read of all Your dealings with Your saints in the birth of their children, and their upbringing for Your service, as the revelation of Your will with ours. We do accept all Your warnings and all Your instructions concerning children as the law of our home. O Lord! open our eyes, that we may ever have before us the picture of a believing home as Thou will it, and will to make it for us. Above all, blessed Lord Jesus! let Your presence and Your love and Your joy, filling the parents’ hearts, be the power to fulfill the Father’s will, 277
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commanded. This surrender of faith
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male and female. In the home on ear
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How terrible the curse and the powe
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God created man in His own likeness
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parents study with care what Holy S
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within the Paradise Regained, where
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comes. And further, it was now to b
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Beloved parents! listen to the bles
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natural seed becomes the heir of Go
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promised child, teaches me that thi
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We have here the first full revelat
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expressed thus: `God has establishe
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provide for their children too, and
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taking away of the foreskin of his
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people, that only the very express
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the faith of the parent rises, the
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often unconsciously bow to the stro
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those around you (1 Tim. 3: 5, 6),
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hand shall You require it; send it
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pleading surety would be no less ri
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Ninth Day - Faith Hiding the Child
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kingdom are thus drowned in the mig
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It has often been pointed out that,
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the cover and protection of the blo
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O most blessed Savior! may the powe
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faithfulness, and to the efficacy o
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God’s purposes — this, namely,
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Twelfth Day - Sanctify the Firstbor
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The principle involved in this is o
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children. Is not this the reason th
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needs to be studied in earnest pray
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lessing, in the fellowship of the F
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guarded, in the tone of gladsome an
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Of the ten, this one is especially
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But are we not in danger of repress
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O my God! I come again to You with
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of parental love to gain access for
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kingdom of grace, in dependence upo
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The first thing on the part of the
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thousands of the children of Israel
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the seeking His glory, be the one d
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There is one thing more we must spe
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have seen God. When he asked the an
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Eighteenth Day - A Consecrated Chil
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the fear of sinning in loving it as
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such a spirit animated each parent
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‘must’ of God’s will. The fea
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what I feel it within my power to d
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Twentieth Day - The Father as Inter
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fearing father, and how it would wa
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delivering from it, be to all paren
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In the words of our psalm, children
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And now comes the teaching as to wh
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O my God! I ask for grace to take t
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the training in that way was not wh
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to give too many commands, or to gi
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Lord! give me the spirit of wisdom,
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law. As he grows out of it, it is s
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the evil and choose the good, is of
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fathers, the children would openly
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speak the words without inquiring f
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Especially we ask You, gracious Lor
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Testament times. When God made His
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along with the world. It must be th
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what it teaches us of God’s purpo
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And it will equally inspire us with
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O Lord our God! we thank You again
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death He broke the power of Satan a
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principle of all its conduct: uncon
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Blessed Lord Jesus! who say of the
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to live as one of its subjects. But
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come each day. Coming out of the wo
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Twenty-Ninth Day - A Mother’s Per
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e born again, changed from being th
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Mother! come nearer, tarry with Jes
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which is around him. The curse of s
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To this end let us take in the thir
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that we may rightly understand that
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terribly checked by the example and
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little ones. Learn to see in them w
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quickening power, that works in us
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confession of its sinfulness, and t
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We find here, at the very opening o
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hope of a holy motherhood: `He shal
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Father! who do much more surely tha
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`Behold the bondmaid of the Lord.
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ondmaid of the Lord, and will belie
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promise to the seed of Your people.
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home; and the words come spontaneou
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utterly and entirely be the Lord’
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mother was to appear in the temple
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Be assured that in such a presentin
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Thirty-Seventh Day - The Baptism wi
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taught what sin is and what repenta
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children will no longer be, what it
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And then, when we think of our chil
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institutions; we shall boldly claim
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greatly fear to enter. Many, as the
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taking away a child, God meant to t
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affliction not pass without a hithe
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eing a treasure to which her love n
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But oh, the desolation that meantim
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compassion which drew near to her b
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the strengthening of faith. God’s
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a token of even more intimate conta
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Peter was a fisherman. After the fi
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learn to look upon our children in
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and elevates by the love of heaven.
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