John Alley 

Psalm 126:1-5

Vanity-thinking you can do anything on your own without the Lord. Must be diligent and work hard. If you do it yourself without the Lord, or do it your own way, it will fail. You can do a lot of work and it comes to nothing, or, worse, the Lord blows it away. 

It is vain to get up early and toil late, if we do it in anxiety because we don’t trust the Lord. With God we get a better yield for less labour. 

Children are a heritage from the Lord. To say that someone should have no more children is to speak a curse. We have freedom in Christ to decide for ourselves but not for others.

In ministry you need sons. We must raise sons.