Prayers for our Children

Father, Thank You for the gifts that our children are to us. You said they are rewards from the Lord. (Psalms 127:3-4)

We receive them today as gifts that have come from the Father of Lights with Whom there is no variation, no shadow cast by His turning. (James 1:17)

We receive them as good, faithful gifts from You. We call our children, “disciples,” “taught of the Lord,” that are “obedient to God’s will”, “of great peace,” and “undisturbed composure.” (Isaiah 54:13)

I pray today that You would contend with those that contend with our children, and bring safety and ease to them. (Isaiah 49:25)

I thank You, Father God, that their hearts are in Your Hand as a watercourse, and You turn them wither so ever way that You will. (Proverbs 21:1)

I thank You that You have promised that we would never be pale with fear or disappointment over our children’s degeneracy, but they would walk in the ways of virtue and piety, and we would rejoice in the God that causes them to do so. (Isaiah 29:22-23)

Father, bring our children back from the land of the enemy. We refrain our eyes from weeping and from tears, for we know our labor and prayer will be rewarded, and they will come again. (Jeremiah 31:16)

You’ve promised us, Father, that if we train our children in the way that they should go, that even when they are old they will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6)

Father, where we’ve had the ability to train them, or if we’ve raised our children without them knowing You, we thank You that it’s a new day, and a new time, and that You make all things new, and begin a work in our children that saves them from the destruction of the enemy. We call them from the north, the south, the east and the west. We say, “they return again from the land of the enemy,” and we thank You for Your hand upon our children. In Jesus’ Precious Name, Amen.