I thought I might send you this little incident in my own life which I think was the first means of making me go to the Lord for myself in prayer. My dear mother and father had taught us from babyhood to go to Jesus at all times, and Mamma had explained to us before, the meaning of the verse, “Ask and ye shall receive.”
She had told us that no little child was too young to ask Jesus anything, as He loved little children and loved to hear their prayers.
We had a very strict school teacher then, and I had lost my home work that day, and must take it to school the next day; I had looked over and over again on a little book stand we children had for our school books, and was in tears, for I could not find it, and I knew it meant punishment in the morning. All at once a voice seemed to say
“Why not ask Jesus?”
So I knelt down just there, and in a little child-like prayer, I asked Him for my home work; before I was off my knees I knew where it was, for as I opened my eyes they fell straight on the lost book.
Since then He has answered many prayers of mine but this was the little start of my going to Jesus, and I am sure He will answer any little child who goes to Him in prayer, and trusts Him in little things.
ML 02/07/1943