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Answering Prayers for Divine Help, May 9
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt
talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by
the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy 6:6, 7
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Fathers and mothers, how can I find words to describe your great respon-
sibility! By the character you reveal before your children you are educating
them to serve God or to serve self. Then offer to heaven your earnest prayers
for the aid of the Holy Spirit, that your hearts may be sanctified, and that the
course you pursue may honor God and win your children to Christ. It should
give to parents a sense of the solemnity and sacredness of their task, when
they realize that by careless speech or action they may lead their children
astray.
Parents need the guardianship of God and His Word. If they do not heed
the counsels of the Word of God, if they do not make the Bible the man of
their counsel, the rule of their life, their children will grow careless and will
walk in paths of disobedience and unbelief. Christ lived a life of toil and
self-denial, and died a death of shame, that He might give an example of the
spirit that should inspire and control His followers. As in their home life
parents strive to be Christlike, heavenly influences will be shed abroad in the
lives of their family.
In every Christian home God should be honored by the morning and
evening sacrifices of praise and prayer. Every morning and evening earnest
prayers should ascend to God for His blessing and guidance. Will the Lord
of heaven pass by such homes, and leave no blessing there? Nay, verily.
Angels hear the offering of praise and the prayer of faith, and they bear the
petitions to Him who ministers in the sanctuary for His people, and pleads
His merits in their behalf. True prayer takes hold upon Omnipotence, and
gives men the victory. Upon his knees the Christian obtains strength to resist
temptation.—
The Review and Herald, February 1, 1912
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