The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

O Lord our God! we thank You again for the institution of the family, as
Your Divine appointment for transmitting Your salvation to all
generations. And we thank You for the revelation of Yourself as the
covenant God of the children of Your servants, pledging Yourself to
fulfill all Your promises of blessing. And we thank You most of all for
the promise of the Spirit, of Your Holy Spirit, of the Spirit of Your Son,
to dwell in our sons and daughters.
O Lord! fulfill Your promise to our children. Give us grace to train them
for You, in the faith of the Spirit’s working, of the Spirit’s coming with
power. Give us grace to prepare them to be meet for the Master’s use,
every gift cultivated and consecrated for Your service. Let our sons and
daughters prophesy in the power of the Holy Ghost.
O Lord! bless all believing parents. Let Your claim on their children, let
Your promise of the Spirit, let the inconceivably high privilege of
offering their children to You for service, let the power promised to
parents, let the crying need for laborers, let the Spirit’s seeking for
those whom He can use as the prophets of the Most High, so fill their
hearts, that all their training may be in harmony with Your purpose:
`Your sons and daughters shall prophesy.’ Amen.
Twenty-Seventh Day – The Heavenly and the
Earthly Father
In what close union we have here before us the wonderful privilege and
the terrible danger that attach to the place our children have in the
Church of Christ. They are children of the kingdom: what more
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