When Asa Kent was first born his mother gave her tiny son to the Lord. She asked God to draw her little boy to Himself early in life so that one day he might preach the gospel of His grace to all around.
But Asa’s mother prayed many prayers and shed many tears before her prayers were answered. Asa was a willful boy, and sometimes he felt impatient with his mother for her loving anxiety about him.
One day they had a cottage meeting in their home, and a few Christians gathered there to pray and to read the Scriptures. Asa’s heart was touched as he listened to the words of one godly old man, and it was then that he opened his heart to the Saviour.
Then it was it seemed the voice of God was whispering to him and saying that one day He would use him to preach the gospel. Asa talked to his mother about it and she joyfully told him the secret she had kept since that day, when a tiny babe, he was placed in her arms, and how she had prayed for him every day since.
When Asa grew older and went about serving the Lord, he would urge parents to pray for their children and trust the Lord to save them. He declared that it was his mother’s prayers, together with the lessons she had taught him in his childhood, that were used of God in his salvation and meant so much to him now as a worker in His vineyard.
“I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also...
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