Prayer and Promises

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 

— Romans 8:32, NKJV  

Prayer is the Christian’s life… It is the privilege of the Christian to enjoy the deep movings of the Spirit of God. A sweet, heavenly peace will pervade his mind. He will love to meditate upon God and Heaven, and to feast upon the glorious promises of the written word. 

Pray in the family. Morning and evening obtain the victory at your family altar. Let not your daily labor keep you from this duty. Take time to pray. And as you pray, believe that God hears you, have faith mixed with your prayers. Let faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours. 

In the morning the Christian’s first thoughts should be of God. Come before him with humility, with a heart full of tenderness, and with a sense of the temptations and dangers that surround yourself and your children. Morning and evening, by earnest prayer and persevering faith, make a hedge about your children. Patiently instruct them; kindly and untiringly teach them how to live so that they may please God. 

Teach your children reverence for God and the hour of prayer. The Lord our God is holy, and his name is to be treated with great reverence. Angels…mention that name with the greatest awe, even veiling their faces when they speak the name of God. 

Pray in faith. “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” Prevailing prayer is the prayer of living faith; it takes God at his word, and claims his promises… The promises are ample; why not accept them just as they read? “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” 

Fervent and effectual prayer will be regarded in Heaven. It is the privilege of Christians to obtain strength from God to hold every precious gift of his Spirit. The power of God has not decreased. His grace and his Spirit will be just as freely bestowed now as formerly. It is the church of God that have lost their faith to claim, their energy to wrestle, as did Jacob, crying, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”… There must be a claiming of the blessing of God. Living faith always bears upward to God and glory. 

— Signs of the Times, November 18, 1886 

Our Father in heaven, let Your blessings rest upon my dear family. Put a hedge around us and protect us from the temptations and dangers that surround us. Give us Your grace and strength through the precious gift of Your Spirit. I claim Your rich blessings for my family, for You did not spare Your own Son, but delivered Him up for us all and promised to freely give us all things!