Family Friday: How can I pray for my children?

Interceding on behalf of your sons and daughters

As a parent one of the most loving things we can do is pray for our children.

·         Go to God with your spouse and child. Let your child hear you pray for them.

·         Thank God for the gift of your child, and for entrusting them to you.

·         Confess your own faults “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.”

·         Ask God to reveal any area in your life that has not been given to Him

·         Ask God to cleanse you of the iniquity by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

·         Pray that God would cut off the cycle of sin in your family. Claim the truth of Psalm 103:17, that from now on righteousness would be the heritage of your children: “But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;”

·         Dedicate your child to God.

·         Speak your desire to raise this child for the Lord. Pray that your child will come to saving knowledge of Christ at a young age.

·         Pray that his life will bring glory to God.

·         Ask God to give wisdom is raising this child for Him.

·         Pray for them to save themselves for their future spouse

·         Pray for that future spouse to save themselves also.

·         Ask the Lord to reveal to you when your child has done wrong, so it can be addressed and corrected.

·         Pray for and discernment in correction and discipline

·         Pray for wisdom in training up your child in the way he would go.

    “Train up a child in the way he should go: 

and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”  Proverbs 22:6