Make us your children.

 Make Us Your Children

Not by our birthright, not by blood or line,

But by Your Spirit’s breath,Your purpose and design.

Not by our merit,but by mercy’s call—

O God,our Father, gather us, and make us Your children all.

Make us Your children.

To all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12)

Unbind us from the orphan’s lonely dread,

The spirit of a slave,in fear and bondage bred.

Break every chain of that old,distant story,

And write us in the family book of glory.

Send forth Your Spirit of adoption, now,

To teach our trembling hearts to speak the word,

To cry with confidence we never knew—

“Abba! Father!”—and to know it’s true.

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” (Romans 8:14-15)

Let the family likeness settle on our face,

Your eyes of grace within,Your hands of mercy trace

The shape of our living,until all can see

A growing,true resemblance to our Brother, Christ, in me.

And as Your children, heirs with Christ, we stand,

To inherit what our minds can’t understand—

Not just a future glory,but a present, loving hold,

A place within Your house,a story to be told.

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 3:1)

So hold us close, correct us, shape us for Your own.

Let this truth define us:we are known.

No longer strangers,but the daughters and the sons

Of the everlasting Father,the Holy One.

Make us, keep us, seal us as Your children,

Loved, secure, and free.

Our Father.

Amen.

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The Miracle of Adoption

This prayer reflects the heart of the Gospel:

· A Gift, Not a Right: We become children of God not by natural descent or human decision, but by receiving Christ and believing in His name (John 1:12-13).

· The Spirit's Role: The Holy Spirit actively accomplishes this adoption, placing within us the familial cry of "Abba, Father" and confirming our status as heirs (Romans 8:15-17, Galatians 4:4-7).

· A Present Reality and Future Hope: We are called God's children now (1 John 3:2). This identity transforms how we live and gives us confident hope for the full revelation of our likeness to Christ when He appears.

To ask God to "make us Your children" is to ask for the fullness of this grace—to be brought from the isolation of sin into the security, intimacy, and inheritance of His family through Jesus Christ.