Don't Wait Till You Are Old...

Yesterday, as part of the teaching team in a room full of beautiful,eager, smart, rambunctious Gr. 4-6 Sunday School students,I couldn't help but long and pray for each of them to choose Jesus while they are young;to be saved from a bitter harvest of wasted years! Yesterday's was a solemn lesson; Jesus' crucifixion,stirring and touching tender hearts!Will you pray for them, and for children the whole wide world overto believe in and receive Jesus as their Saviour while they are young?!! On Saturday I compiled  this post after listening to the message below...and before listening to the message our speaker preached yesterdayalso on prayer!!! ( , 2023) for yesterday's message ***Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.Col.4:2 ***Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. Below are some excerpts from Alistair's message; Alistair Begg begins this message, (an address to students), with this; "The things I want to share with you are thingsthat are pressingly important to me.They are personal things.They are biblical truths.They are necessary matters"... If our prayer is meager it is because we believe it to be supplemental and not fundamental. ***If we pray only when we feel like itwe will not pray very much at all. ***More spiritual progress is made through failure and tearsthan through success and laughter. ***C.T. StoddIf Jesus Christ be God and died for methen no sacrifice that I could ever make for Him could ever be too great ***Can I tell you how to amount to absolutely nothing for God?Think of yourself more highly than you ought. ***Humility is the very seed-bedin which all of the graces and gifts of Godgrow to their maturity ***1 Pet. 5:6Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. ***I am not talking about our resolves.I am not talking about our desires and designs.I am talking about our doing! ***I want to tell you,"When I talk more than I pray,When I study more than I seek God's help,When I am tempted to think that when I am on my feetI am at my most useful,and when I am on my knees that I amsomehow filling in time that could be more beneficially exercised,then I am declaring that I am on the wrong sideof this equation.You see, since prayer is the  key area of our relationshipwith our Heavenly Father, it is this areathat is most frequently under attack.Indeed, I might safely say to youthat you will face no greater attack than in this areabecause the evil one knows that the weaponrythat our Commander in Chief, namely Jesus,has given to us is prayer and the ministry of the word of God.Therefore He will come to confront us with our view of scriptureand to seek to call in questionthe voracity and the sufficiency of God's word,and he will at the same time seek to undermine anydeep-seated conviction that we have,that it is imperative that we come to Him and cry out'Abba, Father!' and that we seek His helpin every part of our journey.." ***No Christian is greater than his/her prayer life **The secret to praying ispraying in secret ***...but, in the matter of prayinghow tragic that so manyhave left so muchto so few... ***Set your moral compasses now.Take the high ground.Go for the gold.Live for Christ.There is no good thing that the Lord withholdsfrom those whose walk is blameless *** ...and here is my prayerfor every boy and girlthe wide world over... Don't wait till you are oldTo seek the good and right Don't wait till worldly pleasure cloudsGod's wellspring of delight Remember your CreatorWhile in your days of youthDon't wait till you are old to mine God's Word for wealth of truth But love the Lord todayWith all your heart; don't waitTill you are old, to start, becauseThen it may be too late This is my earnest pleaFor every girl and boyDon't wait till you are old, and lifeIs full of wasted joy This is my earnest pleaFor children far and nearDon't wait till  God becomes a VoiceThat you no longer hear © Janet Martin Eccles.12:1Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in them”: Isa.66:1-2This is what the Lord says:“Heaven is my throne,and the earth is my footstool.Where is the house you will build for me?Where will my resting place be?Has not my hand made all these things,and so they came into being?”declares the Lord.“These are the ones I look on with favor:those who are humble and contrite in spirit,and who tremble at my word.