Friday, March 18, 2011

Praying For Your Children


1.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL KNOW CHRIST AS SAVIOR EARLY IN LIFE

O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. Psalm 63:1

And that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 3:15


2.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL HAVE A HATRED FOR SIN

Hate evil, you who love the LORD, who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.  Psalm 97:10


3.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL BE CAUGHT WHEN GUILTY

It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.  Psalm 119:71


4.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL BE PROTECTED FROM THE EVIL ONE IN EACH AREA OF THEIR LIVES: SPIRITUALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, INTELLECTUALLY AND SOCIALLY

I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one.  John 17:15


5.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL HAVE A RESPONSIBLE ATTITUDE IN ALL THEIR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.  Daniel 6:3


6.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL RESPECT PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY OVER THEM

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.  Romans 13:1


7.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL DESIRE THE RIGHT KIND OF FRIENDS AND BE PROTECTED FROM THE WRONG FRIENDS

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path.  Proverbs 1:10, 15


8.  PRAY THAT THEY, AS WELL AS THEIR FUTURE SPOUSE, WILL BE KEPT PURE

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?  For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.  1 Corinthians 6:19-20


9.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL BE KEPT FROM THE WRONG SPOUSE AND SAVED FOR THE RIGHT ONE

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? 2 Corinthians 6:14, 15


10.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL LEARN TO SUBMIT TOTALLY TO GOD AND ACTIVELY RESIST SATAN IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7


11.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL BE SINGLE-HEARTED, WILLING TO BE SOLD OUT TO JESUS CHRIST

I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2


12.  PRAY THAT THEY WILL BE HEDGED IN SO THEY CANNOT FIND THEIR WAY TO WRONG PEOPLE OR WRONG PLACES, AND THE WRONG PEOPLE CANNOT FIND THEIR WAY TO THEM

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths. Hosea 2:6








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