It is a blessed thing when a mother’s heart yearns over her child and carries his name before the throne of grace. You plead the precious blood, there is no mightier plea in earth or heaven. You ask the Lord to root out every evil thing, and you stand upon His own Word, which is the surest foothold for faith. Continue in prayer, dear soul, for the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one availeth much.
Yet remember, our wrestle is not with flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. Speak not lightly of the enemy’s devices, but speak more often of the Conqueror. You have named the blood; let your soul abide under its shelter, for it is that crimson tide which drowns every accusation, breaks every chain, and cleanses from all sin. When the destroying angel sees the blood upon the door, he passes over. And when the accuser would roar against your son, the blood answers every charge. Christ’s sacrifice is the ransom found, God Himself hath provided it, and He delights in it. Therefore, be not fearful, but believing.
The deliverance you seek will come, not by fretting, but by a calm reliance upon Him who brought Israel forth with silver and gold. He makes His people willing in the day of His power, and He draws them with cords of a man, with bands of love. Your son may yet walk in darkness for a season, but the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations. It may be through sharp chastening, for the rod is a mighty teacher in the school of grace; but mark this, the rod is in the Father’s hand, not in the destroyer’s. He wounds that He may heal; He brings down to the pit that He may ransom from its power. If the Son makes him free, he shall be free indeed. True deliverance is not merely from some outward assault, but from the love of sin within, and that is as much the work of God as justification itself.
Look for the Lord to act by means: a word, a providence, a humbling, a sudden seeing of Christ as altogether lovely. He who shot the arrow of deliverance through the window at the Red Sea can shoot an arrow of conviction and grace into the heart of your boy. Only give the Lord no rest till He arise and scatter His enemies. And when the answer comes, be sure to declare His works; let your lips be tuned to praise, for if we had no troubles we should have less to tell of His faithfulness.
Above all, count it no small thing that you can plead the name of Jesus, who came to destroy the works of the devil. In Him is all fullness; in His name is authority over every foul spirit. The enemy may rage, but he is a chained foe. Press on in prayer, standing upon the covenant promises, the same God who remembered Noah and Abraham and Jacob, who brought again His Son from the dead through the blood of the everlasting covenant, that same God will arise for your child’s help and bring him into the glorious liberty of the children of God.