DR ALAN CAIRNS went Home today [Thursday 5th November] to be with the One whom he loved and whom he so faithfully and effectually served all his life. He was a good and faithful servant, to whom so many owe so much. Please remember his wife, Joan, and the family in prayer. Thank you, heavenly Father, for leaving such a plentiful legacy behind Dr Cairns that will continue to nourish the souls of many. Thank you, Lord, for the gracious gift to mankind of this man and the ministry Thou blessed him with. May it please Thee to raise up others with a double portion of his spirit to continue that work in this ever darkening world. May the same gifts of liberty, unction and power in preaching Thy Word, which it pleased Thee to bestow upon Alan Cairns, be the prayerful longing and earnest endeavour of every minister of the gospel today. May neither pulpit nor pew be content with anything less. Thank you, Lord. Now glorify Thyself as only Thou art able, and let us behold Thy glory for the mutual encouragement of our never-dying souls. In Jesus precious and peerless name we ask. ‘…the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD’ Job 1:21 |