REQUESTS FOR PRAYER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Feb 19, 1901

REQUESTS FOR PRAYER

“I AM a Seventh-day Adventist, a reader of the REVIEW AND HERALD, and I ask prayer for my unconverted husband and son, that they may give their hearts to Jesus before it is too late, and for myself, that I may have faith, knowledge, and understanding to do a good work for the Master.”

Prayer is requested for a brother and a sister who are greatly handicapped on account of debts, which accumulated while they were in a backslidden condition, turning away from the Lord and His truth. They have now returned, however, and are in good standing in the church, and are anxious to get straight with the world, so as to be free to assist in the Lord’s work. Pray that they may be prospered financially.

“I ask prayer for my two sons, who are out in the world. My oldest son does not wish me even to say anything to him about religion. He said he burned the papers I sent him. I love him with all a mother’s love, and I think he loves me dearly. Pray for him, and for my other son who knows not the Saviour, and also for my two daughters who are out of the truth, and a son-in-law, who thinks that he has nothing to do with his being saved, but that if it is the Lord’s will to save him, he will be saved. Two of my children have been converted, and are keeping the Sabbath with me.”

“I would like to ask an interest in the prayers of our sisters for my husband, who is not a Christian, although he has been in years past, and still believes the truth in theory. Sickness, discouragement, and financial difficulties seem to have placed him where he is. His greatest desire is to make money, and this crowds out all spiritual desires, although he is willing to help me in my work, and desires to see our little boy brought up right; yet, of course, he can not be and do for him as he would if he were a Christian. I think I have the assurance that he will yet rejoice in the Lord. Pray for me, that I may let nothing prevent the Holy Spirit from working in and through me for his salvation.”

A sister who has been in the truth for fourteen years, requests prayers for her healing. Her system is almost completely run down as the result of disobedience to the laws of health, although she is now, and has been for some time, living up to all the light she has received on health reform. She

writes: “I ask a special interest in your prayers for my restoration to health; for He has promised to forgive all my iniquities, and to heal all my diseases, and I know that He who has promised is able and faithful. It is my desire to live to and for His glory, and to use my health and my all in His service, letting the Lord work in me to will and to do of His good pleasure.”

A sister requests prayer for her husband, who, while in the army, read some of Tom Paine’s writings, which has turned him against the Bible, and he will not even look into it, much less study a subject from a Biblical standpoint. This sister is very deaf, lives on a farm, and does not have the privilege of meeting with any of like faith. Pray that the Spirit of the Lord may convict this husband, and that he and his wife may be united in Christian fellowship.

“Please pray for a dear little woman who has an incurable form of rheumatism. For the last two years she has not walked a step without the aid of crutches, and then only a few steps at a time. Her little family greatly need her care. I ask you to pray most earnestly that she may see and obey the grand truths of the Third Angel’s Message, and that God will restore her to perfect health, in such a way that His name, and His alone, may be glorified. It is a most pitiful case, so please do not neglect it.”