WHAT IS YOUR PRAYER FOR YOUR CHILDREN?

Everyone of us, as Christian parents, we do pray for our children, their life, and their future. We all desire that, our children should be properly educated, excel in all that they undertake, and be well settled in their lives, without any hint of strain or struggle. Please allow me to ask, a rather, straight and uncomfortable question, beginning with myself. Have we ever prayed to our God, asking Him to accept the offering of our children, and use them as He pleases in Christian ministry and missions? It would not be a surprise, if most of us who read this post, this morning, have never prayed such a prayer, about our children and their future, to the Living God of all creation, our Redeemer, who without we asking, has willingly and joyfully laid down His life, so that we could be saved, from our sure death, and utter destruction. Isn’t it so?

Let us look at two women who gave to the LORD, what they had, and God used their offering greatly. On 20 January 1669, Susannah Annesley, “Mother of Methodism” is born as the 25th child in her family. She married Samuel Wesley in 1689, and bore him 19 children, the last two being John (1703) and Charles (1707) Wesley.

Susannah Wesley had a tough marriage, and a lot of financial problems. Yet, we see her unfazed, seeking the LORD in prayer, every single day. What an amazing woman Susanna Wesley is!!! Apart from her personal prayers, she made it a habit to pray at the bedside of, each of her 19 children, every night, probably with tears, many many times. Small wonder then, God chose John and Charles Wesley to shake the world.

Dr. Clara A. Swain, an American physician and Christian missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, arrives at Bareilly, India, on 20 January, 1870 and begins medical mission work the same day. 

Clara Swain is called the “pioneer woman physician in India,” and also, the “first fully accredited woman physician ever sent out by any missionary society into any part of the Non-Christian world”. Swain was informed about an appeal from their mission board in India, about eh need of a doctor. She accepted the appeal, and on 3rd November, 1869, she sailed from New York, to in Bareilly, India.

The two women above, were not only, personally committed to God, but offered themselves first, and in Susanna Wesley’s case, offered her children too, for the service of the LORD. WHAT IS YOUT PRAYER FOR YOUR CHILDREN TODAY? Do we pray that God would accept them as His ambassadors, and use them as He pleases? Can we abandon the future of our children by laying it at the feet of our Father in heaven? Can we say wholeheartedly, God use my children as your missionaries? WHAT IS YOUT PRAYER FOR YOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS THIS MORNING? May the LORD help us to seek His glory, and His glory alone! May we, along with our families, serve Him alone, and serve for the interest of His kingdom. Soli Gloria Deo!!!