Your unspoken burden has been laid before the Lord who knows the heart and hears even the sigh that has no words. There is comfort in this, that very often the response to a believer's petition has been practically received before he presents his request, he only needs that God should open his eyes for him to see that before he called, God had answered his supplication.
We join you in prayer for your family, and we commend you to trust in the living God, the real God, who has a great warm loving heart and is a thinking, active, working, personal God who comes into the midst of this world and does not leave it to go on by itself. You need not wait to feel a blaze of joy or a certain inward frame before you trust Him. Trust Him as you sink and you shall swim. Trust Him as you feel yourself dying and you shall live. Do not make a god out of your feelings, but trust His appointed Savior at once.
We pray that you and your household may know what it is to be quickened and brought into the family of God, for one must first be made a child of God and then he can trust his affairs in his Father's hands. May the Holy Spirit lead you and all your loved ones right away to the feet of Jesus, for there is no other name by which we must be saved, and may family prayer be more regarded and private prayer more diligently maintained in your home.
Let us pray together. O Lord God, You know the unspoken needs of this family better than they can utter them. You commanded the light to shine out of darkness, shine we pray in every heart in this household with the light of the knowledge of Your glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Forgive sin, restore the backsliding, provide for temporal needs according to Your wisdom and economy, keep from sinful means and anxious care, and bear this family through every trial. Lead each one to trust Your Son at once, and to rely simply and entirely upon You. Grant that whether in joy or in loss, this promise may be their trust through every scene of life and death. We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who alone is able to save all who trust Him. Amen.