It is Well-Devotion
by Melody Haak-Umbrella Ministries
2 Corinthians 12:9 “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for
my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the
more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.”
Horatio Spafford was a prominent lawyer, a senior partner in a large
thriving law firm inChicago. He was well-known in the 1860’s, and he and
his wife were supporters and close friends of Dwight L. Moody. Spafford
had sizeable amounts of investments in real estate and in the spring of 1871,
everything he owned was destroyed in the great fire of Chicago. Two years
later, Horatio decided his family should take a holiday in England because
he knew his friend, D.L. Moody, would be preaching there. Because of
business, he sent his family ahead, however, the steamship in which his
family was traveling, the Ville du Havre, was struck by an iron sailing vessel
and 226 people lost their lives, including his four daughters. Anna Spafford,
upon arriving in England sent Horatio a telegram, saying that she was
“saved alone.” As Spafford was sailing to England, he was going over the
location of his daughters’ deaths, he looked out over the waters and he
