The following has been received from Brian Parr, who serves on the staff of St. Peters Free Church with details of David’s condition and a call to prayer

I’m writing today with a heavy heart and with a single request that has come from David Robertson’s own steadily scribbling hand.

I visited David in the ICU again this morning to share some emails from others and some of the many get-well cards we are being inundated with here at St Peter’s Dundee. He was awake and reasonably alert after a very hard day yesterday and with only a few hours of sleep last night.

Yesterday he was anaesthetised for several hours as the doctors and nurses replaced all of his vital support lines. He has developed a septic infection and has had a high fever for the last several days that has been unresponsive to antibiotics and fever reducing measures. Additionally, a CT scan of his lungs yesterday revealed that the damage has been more extensive and intense then they first believed.

The doctors have said the next 48 hours are going to be crucial to his outcome.

David has asked me to ask you to pray for him, en concert, wherever you are, today between 4pm and 5pm GMT. (Editor’s note: That time has passed for some and we suggest those readers substitute a time of your choice.) He has asked that you would also fast during this hour as you pray. “This kind of thing can be beaten with prayer and fasting,” he wrote furiously.

Would you please join us, wherever you are, during this hour to pray and fast for David.

• Pray with us that that Lord would spare his life. That the infection would be eradicated and that his lungs would be restored.
• Pray that his mind and his soul would rest at this time. That he would rest in God’s love and His pleasure with David’s life and work.
• Pray for David’s wife Annabel, Daughters Becky and Emma-Jane and son Andrew, as well as the rest of his extended family as they carry this heavy burden. Pray for their spiritual and emotional health and for Annabel’s physical health as she has developed a chest infection.

Soli Deo Gloria,
Brian