The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

compassion which drew near to her before ever she knew that she
might look to You! Lord Jesus! for every widowed mother we now pray
to You. Teach her to come to You with her fatherless children. We bless
You that there are thousands of widowed mothers who have proved
how wonderfully You can bless the feeble, and how richly You have
blessed their children.
Teach the widow, we pray You, to put her trust in God and in You. You
are able and You are willing to do what man dare not expect, what man
counts impossible, if we honor You by trusting Your love. O Savior! help
the feeble faith of every widow. Let her desolation and her sorrow and
her feebleness compel her now wholly to cast herself with her children
on You, to depend upon You alone. Draw Yourself near, O You
compassionate One, and reveal Yourself. Speak into the depths of the
sorrowing, anxious heart Your word of comfort: Weep not! Oh, let Your
widowed child hear You speaking, see You come to take charge, and
provide, and care for the education of her children. Teach her that her
one work is to trust You, in separation from the world, in holy
devotedness to You, to trust You for a more than human, a Divine
guidance and blessing on her children. Let her continue in prayer and
supplication, in daily communion with You the Unseen One, the portion
of her children. Let her then fully know how truly You are the widow’s
Friend, the Savior and the Friend of her children. Amen.
Forty-First Day – The Sick Child
‘There was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. He went unto
Jesus, and besought Him that He would come down and heal his son; for he was at
the point of death.’ John 4: 46, 47.
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