Prayer and Promises

THE PROMISE 

You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

— Jeremiah 29:12,13, HCSB 

THE TESTIMONY 

If ever there was a time when every house should be a house of prayer, it is now. 

The idea that prayer is not essential is one of Satan’s most successful devices to ruin souls. Prayer is communion with God, the Fountain of wisdom, the Source of strength, and peace, and happiness. 

Infidelity and skepticism prevail. Iniquity abounds...under the tyranny of Satan. The soul is made the sport of his temptations; and unless some mighty arm is stretched out to rescue him, man goes where the arch-rebel leads the way. 

By sincere, earnest prayer parents should make a hedge about their children. They should pray with full faith that God will abide with them and that holy angels will guard them and their children from Satan’s cruel power.  

In every family there should be a fixed time for morning and evening worship. How appropriate it is for parents to gather their children about them before the fast is broken, to thank the heavenly Father for His protection during the night, and to ask Him for His help and guidance and watchcare during the day! 

How fitting, also, when evening comes, for parents and children to gather once more before Him and thank Him for the blessings of the day that is past! 

The father, or, in his absence, the mother, should conduct the worship, selecting a portion of Scripture that is interesting and easily understood. The service should be short. When a long chapter is read and a long prayer offered, the service is made wearisome...the children dread it. 

Fathers and mothers, make the hour of worship intensely interesting. 

Eternity alone will reveal the good with which such seasons of worship are fraught. 

— Testimonies for the Church Volume 7, p.42-44 

THE RESPONSE 

By sincere, earnest prayer make a hedge about your children. 

Pray in full faith that God will abide with them and holy angels will guard them from Satan’s cruel power.  

For morning worship thank the heavenly Father for His protection during the night. Ask for His help, guidance and watchcare during the day! 

When evening comes, gather your children once more and thank Him for the blessings of the day that is past!