The Children for Christ by Andrew Murray

O most blessed Savior! may the power of Your blood work in me so
mightily, that my faith may in full assurance accept it for each of my
children as a present blessing. May we, under the covering of the blood,
know ourselves protected from the destroyer.
O most gracious God! whose is this wondrous ordinance of a lamb for
an house, I yield myself to You afresh as the minister of Your covenant.
Use me, my God, to save my children, to train them for You, and You
alone. I would have the door-posts not only sprinkled with the blood,
but inscribed with the law. I would have Your service the one thing they
grow up for. As You have chosen us, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto
obedience and blood-sprinkling, may faith in the blood and surrender
to Your will be as the two door-posts, between which we daily go in and
out. The Lord make it so. Amen.
Eleventh Day – The Father as Priest and Prophet
‘And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say, What mean ye by this
service? that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed
over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses.’ Exod. 12: 26, 27.
The Passover sets the believing parent before us in a twofold aspect.
First, as dealing with God on behalf of the children, and bringing down
the blessing on them; then as dealing with the children for God, and
seeking to lead them up to Him. In the former capacity, he sprinkled the
blood of the lamb upon his house, securing God’s protection for the
children. In the latter he had to instruct his children, telling them of
what God had done, and seeking to lead them to the personal
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