A Prayer for My Children
Heavenly Father, thank You for my children’s salvation. Thank You for choosing them to be children of mine and Yours.
Thank You for lavishing Your riches and inheritance on them, even though they could do nothing to earn it or deserve it.
Guide Their Steps
I pray for my children’s legs. May they always walk with You. Keep them from racing ahead, lagging behind, or wandering away.
Day by day, help them walk with Jesus so that He is their constant companion. God, take them where You want them to go. Keep them from the places they should not go.
Give them strength when they feel weak. Give them courage to keep walking with You, even when the road ahead looks uncertain and dim.
Also, give them grace to bridge gaps, leap walls, and span the separations between people and groups.
Help Them Stand Firm
I pray for my children’s feet. Place them where You want them to stand. Plant their feet on the immovable rock of Jesus.
When storms come, or when the world tries to lure them down its path, speak to their hearts. Whisper to their spirits, “Stand firm.”
Use Their Hands and Arms
Through my children’s arms, do Your work. Strengthen them, hold them up, and direct them to do whatever You want them to do.
Make their time valuable for eternity, not just for the brief span of their days on earth.
I pray for my children’s hands. May they often fold them in prayer. Make them mighty in prayer, and teach them to pray after Your own heart.
Enable them to live in such a way that others will see Your signature on their lives: “This one is the Lord’s.”
Strengthen Their Will and Character
Give my children the patience to wait on You, Lord. Renew their spirits so they may soar as on eagle’s wings.
By Your power, make their will as strong as iron when they cling to what is good and resist evil. Cause them to be unyielding in following righteousness and rejecting anything that is not pure, holy, and completely from You.
At the same time, make their wills toward You as pliable as spun silk. When You convict them of sin or show them their own ways, give them tender hearts and teachable spirits.
I pray for my children’s character. Make it strong and godly. Use godly men and women to mold, shape, and weave their character, beliefs, and view of You.
Keep Their Conscience Clear
By Your grace, help their conscience stay clear. Teach them to keep a short list of accounts with You.
Help them quickly acknowledge their wrongs and confess their sin. Give them humility to seek forgiveness from those they offend.
Also, enlarge their hearts so they can forgive freely when they are wronged, even before forgiveness is asked for.
Guard Their Hearts and Bodies
I pray for my children’s hearts. Guard them. Keep them protected, covered, shielded, and sheltered from all harm.
Make their hearts soft when compassion is needed. Make them firm when tough love is required. Above all, keep their hearts holy.
By Your power, protect their bodies. Keep them well and safe. Heal them when they are sick or injured.
Hold them and comfort them when they are afraid, lonely, sad, or discouraged. Give them the strength and courage to keep going when they feel they cannot go any farther.
Fill Their Minds with Wisdom
I pray for my children’s minds. When it comes to the things of Christ, fill them with knowledge and wisdom.
When it comes to the things of sin, keep them innocent. Give them Your wisdom and discernment to evaluate what they see.
Light their eyes with the light of Christ shining within them. Filter what they see through holy filters.
Protect them and keep them, because the devil masquerades as an angel of light. Give them holy understanding to see past the surface, view the world from Your perspective, and respond as You would.
Guide What They Hear and Say
Father, put Your Word in my children’s ears and hearts often. Keep them from listening to unwise counsel or foolish talk.
Instead, lead them to seek Your wisdom and Your ways all their days.
I pray for my children’s mouths. May words of praise and prayer always be on their lips.
Keep them from speaking rashly or without thought. Let their words bring honor and glory to You.
I also pray for my children’s countenances. May their faces reflect Your glory and the radiance of the hope that is alive within them.
Teach Them Stewardship
Sanctify their pocketbooks. Teach them to be good stewards of what You give them.
Show them the principles of Your economy. Teach them how to manage and use the things You lend them.
Beyond finances and possessions, make them good stewards of their talents, time, and opportunities.
Help them remember that everything belongs to You. Because of that, they do not need to worry or fear loss.
Keep Them in Christ
I pray that they will abide in righteousness and live worthy of the One who purchased their lives from destruction and eternal death.
Show them that life is in Christ alone. There is no other lasting source of life, joy, light, peace, comfort, love, or truth.
No one else is pure or holy but You.
Final Prayer
Father-God, I place all these things in Your hands. I pray in the name of the One who is able to do all things, beyond anything we ask or imagine.
To Him be all glory, honor, and praise. Amen.
By Charley Gunter
Used by Permission.
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