The Children For Christ by Andrew Murray

will, as they now pray in presence of each other, and then fall down in
worship before Him whose name is WONDERFUL, as they unburden
their fears, and encourage each other to trust and hope, they experience
that the home school is as much for training parents themselves as
their children, and that there is nothing that opens the fountains of
Divine love and of each other’s love more than the prayerful desire to
know how to order the children God has given them for His service and
glory.
Blessed Lord! as those whom You have joined together to train children
for Your holy service, we bow in united worship before You. Make us by
Your Holy Spirit to be so of one heart and mind, that all You reveal to
the one may at once be witnessed to the other. Grant that in our
conversations and our prayers, in our weakness and fear, in our faith
and our worship, we may feel what blessing and help there is in Your
having sent us two and two to each little flock of children to be tended.
Lord God! we come to You now for wisdom for each child You have
given us. Of each one we would say, What shall be the ordering of the
child, and what shall we do unto him? Open our eyes to see the
treasures of wisdom in Your Holy Word, in promise and instruction for
parents and children. Especially reveal Yourself to us, we beseech You,
as the God of the covenant and the promise, the parent’s God, whose
name is WONDERFUL. Teach us in holy fear and reverence, in childlike
trust and. joy, in purity of life and separation from the world, to walk
before You, and so to train children that are Nazarites, holy to the Lord,
prepared to fight for the kingdom, and to be the deliverers of the
oppressed. Amen.
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