The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

within and temptation from without. May I realize the wonderful
power entrusted to me, by Your giving the child’s will, into my power.
And may a due sense of my own impotence, and Your Almighty Power
working in me, combine to keep me humble and yet hopeful, conscious
of my weakness, but confident in You. O God! teach me to form and
train the will of my child to refuse the evil and choose the good.
Lord! make me very gentle and patient under a sense of my own
willfulness. And very watchful, because of the sleepless vigilance of the
enemy, and the hourly danger of my child. Ever faithful to fulfil my
commission well. And very full of trust, because You are my Help and
my Father.
Twenty-Fourth Day – God’s Spirit in Our Children
`I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed, and My blessing on thy offspring. One shall
say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord.’
Isa. 44: 3, 5.
Even as in the prophecy of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, quoted by
Joel on the day of Pentecost, express mention is made of the sons and
daughters, so here too the blessing of an outpoured Spirit is made to the
seed and offspring of God’s people. The root principle of the covenant,
promising grace to the fathers for the children, to the children for the
fathers’ sake and through the fathers, is to be the mark of the
dispensation of the Spirit too. The promise is accompanied by the very
distinct statement of what would be the fruit of the Spirit’s corning on
the offspring. Not resting content with a religion inherited from the
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