A Father’s Prayer for His Children

Heavenly Father, thank You for my kids’s salvation. Thank You for selecting them to be kids of mine and Yours. Thank You that You’ve lavished Your riches and Your inheritance on them, though they might do nothing to earn it or deserve it.

I pray for my kids’s legs to stroll at all times with You, not racing forward, not lagging behind, not wandering off, however day-by-day strolling with Jesus, in order that He’s their fixed companion. God, take them the place You need them to go and maintain them from the locations they shouldn’t go. Give them power to proceed after they really feel weak. Give them braveness to maintain on strolling with You, even when the street forward seems unsure and dim. Give them grace to bridge gaps, to leap partitions, to span the separations between folks and teams.

I pray for my kids’s ft, that You’ll place them the place You need them to face. Plant their ft on the immovable rock of Jesus. Speak to them when storms come or the world’s sights attempt to lure them down its path. Whisper of their ears and to their spirits, “Stand agency.”

By my kids’s arms, at all times do Your work. Strengthen them, maintain them up, and direct them to do no matter You need them to do. Make their time priceless for eternity, not simply the fast flash that’s the span of their days on earth.

I pray for my kids’s arms that they may typically fold them in prayer. Make them mighty in prayer. Educate them to hope after Your personal coronary heart. Allow them to dwell their lives so that everybody will see Your signature, “This one is the Lord’s.”

Give my kids the persistence to attend on You, Lord, in order that You could renew their spirits and so they might soar as on eagle’s wings.

By Your enabling energy, make my kids’s will as robust as iron for clinging to what’s good and resisting evil. Trigger them to be unyielding in following righteousness and rejecting something not pure, holy, and utterly from You. Make their wills towards You as pliable as spun silk when You convict them of sin or following their very own methods. Give them tender hearts and teachable spirits for You, God.

I pray for my kids’s character, that You’ll make it robust and godly. Use godly women and men to mould, form, and weave their character, beliefs, and views of You as You need to make them.

Allow by Your grace that their conscience will probably be clear. I pray they may maintain a brief record of accounts with You and shortly acknowledge sin to You and confess their wrongs. Give them the humility to hunt forgiveness from those they offend. Enlarge their hearts to grant forgiveness freely, even earlier than it’s requested, when they’re wronged.

I pray for my kids’s coronary heart, that You’ll guard it. Hold them protected, lined, shielded, and sheltered from all hurt that seeks to the touch them. Make their hearts comfortable when they need to present compassion, agency when “powerful love” is required, and at all times holy.

By Your energy, shield their our bodies. Hold them nicely and protected, and heal them when they’re sick or injured. Maintain them and luxury them when they’re afraid, lonely, unhappy, or discouraged. Give them the power and the braveness to maintain on keepin’ on after they really feel they can’t any longer.

I pray for my kids’s minds, that concerning the issues of Christ they are going to be full of data and knowledge, and concerning the issues of sin they are going to be ignorant. Give them Your knowledge and discernment to guage what they see.

Mild my kids’s eyes with the sunshine of Christ shining inside them. Filter what they may see via holy filters. Shield them and maintain them, for the satan masquerades as an angel of sunshine. Give them holy understanding to see previous the floor, to see the world from Your perspective, and to reply as You’ll.

Father, put Your Phrase in my kids’s ears and of their hearts often. I pray that they won’t take heed to unwise counsel or silly discuss and can search Your knowledge and Your methods all their days.

I pray for my kids’s mouths, that phrases of reward and prayer will probably be on their lips at all times. Curb them from talking rashly or with out thought, in order that they may convey honor and glory to You. I pray for my kids’s countenances, that they may replicate Your glory and the radiance of the hope that’s alive inside them.

Sanctify their pocketbooks, and educate them to be good stewards of what You give them. Educate them the ideas of Your economic system, the way in which to handle and use the issues that You mortgage them. Past funds and possessions, make them good stewards of their skills, time, and alternatives You ship. Assist them to acknowledge that the whole lot is Yours, and due to that, they needn’t fear or worry loss.

I pray that they may abide in righteousness and dwell worthy of the One who bought their lives from destruction and everlasting dying. Present them that life is in Christ alone, that there isn’t any different supply of life, pleasure, gentle, peace, consolation, love, or reality that may endure eternally, and no different is pure or holy however You.

Father-God, I place all these items in Your arms within the title of the One who is ready to do all issues, past something we ask or think about, to whom is all glory, honor, and reward, Amen.