REQUESTS FOR PRAYER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1901

REQUESTS FOR PRAYER

“I REQUEST prayer for my aged mother, who says she does not believe in the divinity of Christ or the inspiration of the Bible. Also pray for the youth of our church, who have had many stumbling blocks cast in their way.”

A brother writes: “I would like to request the prayers of the brethren and sisters in my behalf. I am in poor health, for which I am to blame, but the cause is in the past. I have a bad temper, which I am trying hard to overcome.”

Prayer is requested for a mother and her married daughter, who have recently accepted the truth, that they may be kept by the power of God against opposition, and may be a light to the people where they are.

Prayer is requested for an old gentleman who has been very much prejudiced against the Spirit of Prophecy, but who has just recently expressed a desire to investigate and find out the truth. He is a member of the Church of God.

“I am a lone Sabbath-keeper. There are years at a time when I do not hear a Seventh-day Adventist sermon. My husband and four sons are not Christians, and are very worldly. Please pray for them. One of my sons has been sick with typhoid fever, and the doctors gave no hope of his recovery. But it seemed as if I could not give him up, for he was not saved. I could not sleep, and would pray

hour after hour that God would spare his life long enough to give him one more chance for repentance. The dear Lord heard my prayer, and my boy is getting well, for which I praise the Lord. But I ask the sisters to pray earnestly for him, that his life may not have been spared in vain.”

“My husband, my son, and my brothers and sisters are all out of the ark of safety, and I ask an interest in your prayers for them, that they may come to a knowledge of the truth before it is too late. I am the only one in a large family who has accepted the truth, and my husband is much opposed to it. I read my case in many of the extracts from letters published in the REVIEW. But I find God’s grace sufficient for all the trials I have to endure.”

A sister requests prayer for her husband, who, though once an earnest Christian, has become indifferent, and neglects his family. This sister feels that her own life has not been the help to her husband that it should have been, but she is now trying to do her best, and requests prayer that the home may not be broken up by a separation between her and her husband. She also requests prayer for her children, who are grown, and have drifted out into the world, and seem indifferent to their Christian teaching.

A dear sister sends in a two-months’ subscription for the REVIEW to be sent to her son, who is not in the truth, and for whom she feels very anxious. She requests prayer in his behalf. We can certainly pray that this young man will be led to read the papers which his dear mother has sent him, and that the Spirit of the Lord will accompany the reading, and impress the truth on his heart. We think it is a good plan to accompany our prayers with some personal effort of this kind.

“I have been reading to-day the requests for prayer, and my heart yearns for help in the same way. I have children who are trying to serve the Lord, and some who are not. Their father is an unbeliever and an intemperate man, and he has made the burden too hard for them to bear. We are isolated from others of like faith. We are well able to send the children to school, and they are anxious to go, and I am anxious for them to go to school and be taught the truth before it is too late. Please pray for us, and pray that I may have patience to bear all things.”