The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

those around you (1 Tim. 3: 5, 6), in the power given you, like Abraham,
to enter into God’s secrets, and to plead with Him as intercessor for the
perishing, God will prove to you that believing, faithful parentage is
one of the highest privileges to which man can be admitted. Study
Abraham in his fatherhood as chosen of God, faithful to God, blessed of
God, and find in him the type, the law, the promise of what your
fatherhood may be.
O my God! have You indeed taken me too into this wonderful covenant,
in which You are the God of the seed of Your saints, and make them the
ministers of Your grace to their children? Open my eyes, I pray You, to
see the full glory of this Your covenant, that my faith may know all that
You have prepared for me to bestow, and may do all You have prepared
for me to perform. O my God! may Your covenant-keeping faithfulness
be the life and the strength of my faith. May this faith make me faithful
in keeping the covenant.
And teach me to realize fully what this parental faithfulness is which
You do ask of me. I would make this the one object of my home life, to
train a seed to serve You. By my life, by my words, by my prayers, by
gentleness and love, by authority and command, I would lead them in
the way of the Lord. O God! be You my helper.
Teach me, above all, that, as You have appointed this parental training
for the fulfillment of Your purpose, I may be assured that You have
made provision for the grace to enable me to perform. Let my faith see
You undertake for me and all I have to do, and an ever-growing faith so
be the root of an ever-growing faithfulness. I ask it in the name of Your
Son. Amen.
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