We've had a lot of change going on in our lives these past 6 months. If I think of all this last year has had for us I can get a little over whelmed. We've added a new member to our family in the last year, our Oliver Reilly.
We've moved to a new state,
my husband has started a new job,
we started home schooling,
joined a new church...
Change can be an over whelming thing and often we forget how it can affect our children as well.
So today I've chosen to write out prayers for my children. Maybe you pray for your children daily or maybe you don't know how. But I encourage you to pour out your soul before the Lord on behalf of your children. Prayer is such a powerful thing.
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him for the life of your young children.
Lamentations 2:19
Pray for the children you have and/or pray for the children that the Lord will one day place into your home.
Heavenly Father,
I bring before You my children. I place them in Your hands because they are not my own. I praise You for Your creation and the intricate ways that you form us down to the smallest detail.
I ask that you see every aspect of my children and mold and shape them to GLORIFY You. Remove from their lives anything that isn't pleasing to You and help me as their mother to have the wisdom when to step in. Place around them positive influences, great friendships and loving arms to raise them as Your children. Even though darkness may surround us in a fallen world I ask that you surround them with Your light. Pour Your light into every part of their lives so they might grow up with HOPE.
Show me as their mother how to love my children individually in the ways that they need. Help me discipline them in ways to build character. Help me teach what it means to be a servant to others and not self seeking. I praise You for the children that You place into my arms. Lead me to protect their eyes, ears and hearts.
Place Your hands over my marriage that we would love in a way that honors You and shows our children a positive relationship even when times are difficult. Help us to communicate in love and not just to be right. Give me the patience I need each day to love these children how You do. I pray for the futures of these little ones, that you would direct them towards ways that would give them confidence in who You have created them to be using their gifts and talents. Motivate them to be hard working servants. Help me be the mother my children need.
Amen
If you can't find the words to pray for your children I encourage you to use mine, no copyrights here. Or another option is to pray scripture for them, here are some of my favorites:
I will both lie down in peace, and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8
We have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
1 John 4:16
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother; for they will be graceful ornaments on your head, and chains about your neck.
Proverbs 1:8,9
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Galations 2:20
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!
Psalm 119:2
Teach me Your way, O Lord; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Your name forevermore.
Psalm 86:11-12
Arise, shine; for your light has come! and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
Isaiah 60:1
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31
For the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable.
Romans 11:29
Every branch in me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:2
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10
and I could keep going and going...
Pray for your children and tell them that you do so.
Every good and perfect gift is from above...
James 1:17