REQUESTS FOR PRAYER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1900

REQUESTS FOR PRAYER.

“I REQUEST prayer for my son. He is not religious, and is falling into the habit of smoking, which I fear will become so confirmed that he can not be reached. Pray for his conversion.”

“I beg an interest in your prayers for my son, who is unconverted. He sails to-day as mate on a vessel for a long trip. I do not think there is a Christian on the boat. Do pray that the angels may touch his heart, and guard him from danger.”

“Pray for a husband and father who is untrue to his wife and little babe, and has forsaken them. He has hardened his heart against them, and all the wife's prayers and pleadings with him are of no avail. I feel as if nothing but the prayers of the saints will avail for the restoration of my son-in-law to his family.”

“Pray for my husband, whose name has been dropped from church membership. He is so burdened, disheartened, and discouraged that he hardly looks up to the throne of grace. Oh that I had faith strong enough to buoy him up! I believe he is dear to God, but we both keep going back to the slough of despond.”

“I am much concerned about my husband. Surely he is hardening his heart and stiffening his neck. I am very anxious for him. I ask for special prayer. Oh that God would humble him so that he would cry to him for help! I would be willing to work my finger-ends off to support my little children if it would be the means of saving his soul.”

“I have a husband and five living children, and I realize that there is a great work to be done for us all in order that we may be prepared for translation. I am in extremely poor health. I would like to be remembered, with my household, at the hour of prayer. I know that my circumstances are peculiarly distressing, but I will not burden you with the details, as God knows all about them; but it will be a comfort to know that I am being prayed for.”

“I ask the prayers of the sisters in behalf of my husband and myself. Pray for him that he may be kept from following after evil women, and that God will touch his heart, and bring him into the fold. He is a good, kind husband until he gets into such evil society, and then Satan causes him to abuse his family shamefully. I have been earnestly praying for him for five years, and I believe that the Lord will answer prayer for him. I ask you all to join with me at the noon hour.”

A sister requests prayer for a husband who is not in the truth, who, while he does not oppose her going to meeting, will not aid her in church work in any way; also for a son, who has just left school, and is about to start out in the world for himself. While this son was home with his mother, he had no bad habits, and was a Christian, but since he has grown older, his father has influenced him to do differently. She also requests prayer for her eldest daughter, who has married, and given up all that she has been taught.