A few years ago, a good friend shared 7 scriptures that he and his wife had prayed for their two daughters since they were babies. The girls have now grown up. And it is beautiful to see how God has responded and continues to respond to the faithful and specific prayers of faithful parents in the lives of these young and pious women.
I have often used these prayers when I pray for my own children and recommend them.
- But.
- Of course.
- Prayers are not magic spells.
- It’s not just about saying the right things and our children will be blessed successfully.
Some parents pray earnestly and their children become talented leaders, academics, musicians, or athletes; others pray earnestly and their children develop a disability or serious illness, or roam a luxurious desert, or simply fight more than others socially, academically or athletically. the truth is that God responds to all of these parents’ prayers, but for very different purposes.
That’s why texts like John 9:1-3 are in the Bible. We should not determine God’s purposes too quickly, for they may be the opposite of our perceptions. God measures success differently from us, so He often answers our prayers in unexpected ways.
So pray for your children. Jesus promises us that if we ask, seek, and fight, the Father will give us good in return (Luke 11:9-13), even if good is not evident for forty years, and because Jesus regularly asked those who came to him. , “What do you want me to do for you?” (Mark 10. 51), we know that he wants us to be precise in our requests. So here are seven useful and specific things to pray for your children.
1. May Jesus call you and let no one stop you from coming
Then they brought children to Jesus to impose their hands on them and pray for them, but the disciples rebuked them. Then Jesus said, They brought him children to lay down their hands and pray unto him; but the disciples rebuked them. the kingdom of heaven; and having imposed his hands on them, he left. (Matthew 19:13-15)
2. May they respond in faith to Jesus’ persistent and faithful call.
The Lord does not delay His promise, because some believe it is long; on the contrary, he suffers a great time with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but to all come to repentance (2 Peter 3. 9).
3. May they experience sanctification through the transformative work of the Holy Ghost and increasingly desire to keep the great commandments.
Jesus answered, Thou thou thou wie thou god thou thou width with all thy heart, soul, and intelligence. It is the great and first commandment, the second commandment, similar to this one, is: you will love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37-39)
4. That they do not unequally unequally unequally unsymity in intimate relationships, especially in marriage.
Do not attach unequally to the disbelievers; because what society can be between justice and wickedness, or what communion, light and darkness?(2 Corinthians 6. 14)
5. Let your thoughts be pure
Finally, brethren, all that is true, all that is respectable, all that is right, all that is pure, all that is kind, all that is of good fame, if there is virtue and if there is praise, all that occupies your thought (Philippians 4. 8)
6. May your heart feel compelled to give generously to the Lord’s work.
The children of Israel brought a voluntary offering to the Lord, that is, every man and woman whose heart inspired them to make an offering for all the work the Lord had commanded to do through Moses (Exodus 35. 29).
7. When the time comes, they will!
Jesus, approaching them, spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, then, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; teaching you to keep everything I commanded you, and behold, I am with you every day until the end of the century (Matthew 28:18-20).