Your silent requests have not fallen unheard, for the Lord who searches the heart knows what is the mind of the Spirit and He hears the prayer that never reaches the lips. When words fail, the Spirit Himself makes intercession, and the Father who sees in secret remembers His Word unto His servants even when that word is breathed only in a sigh.
It is a good and holy thing that you bring your family before the throne of grace. Intercessory prayer is the sweetest prayer God ever hears, for it is the very character of our Great High Priest who now pleads for His own. In the family of love, common sympathy leads to constant intercession, and what an honor it is to be permitted to pray for those nearest to us. Do not restrain prayer before God, but let it be inwrought in the warp and woof of your being, at the family altar and in the closet, pleading with importunity until the answer comes.
You ask for protection, and here we must look to no narrow covering of our own making. Our good works, our forms, our resolutions are too narrow to wrap ourselves in, they cover only as a headpiece or as slippers for the feet, but they cannot cover the whole man. Blessed be God, the covering which Christ provides is such that sin is not merely hidden beneath a thin coverlet, but hidden as if Hell itself were heaped over it and worlds piled upon it, never to be seen again. In Jesus alone is salvation, and in Him alone are we kept. There is no other name by which we may be covered and kept from evil.
So imitate Jacob in his humility of spirit and in his holy argument. Do not come with self conceit which tears the wheels from the chariot of prayer, but come lowly, spreading your case before the Lord and pleading His promises. Say with David, Remember the Word unto Your servant, for that is what God intends prayer to be, a reminding of the Father of what He has promised in Christ. Press your suit with all the arguments the Word supplies, that He will keep His people from evil, that He will quicken you in His way, that He will be faithful to the covenant of His grace.
We join our prayers with yours now.
Heavenly Father, we remember this family before You and ask You to keep them from evil and to set Your hand about them for good. You know the silent requests that have been lifted without words, fulfil them according to Your wisdom and mercy. Cover this household with the righteousness of Christ, quicken each heart in Your way, and let Your Word be fulfilled among them. Keep them walking in Your truth, in faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ through whom alone is salvation, and in the way of holiness which You have ordained. Preserve them in peace, protect them from the adversary, and cause Your face to shine upon them, in Jesus Name, Amen.