Most of us have children and if you don’t have children you have someone who you desperately want to surrender their life to Christ. Some are living in such danger physically as well as spiritually that we struggle everyday with our thoughts of them. We can get discouraged and sad.
One of the things that I have found comfort in is praying for my children or any person that is burdening my heart. There are times that fasting is in order, as well, along with prayer.
What I want to do today is share some of the prayers that I pray for my children. They can be prayed for anyone but in this post I am directing it toward children. You can read my “Happy Mother’s Day!” post on actions we can take along with prayer.
Each paragraph can be used as a separate prayer. I don’t always pray all of these at one time.
Dear Father,
I commit my children to you today; give me counsel and instruction.
Lord, Put a hedge about my children today. Guard our children and us with Your Holy Angels from Satan’s cruel power.
Lord, Give me my children buried in the rubbish of error, or I die! Bring them to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus.
Lord, Impart Your grace to my children.
Lord, I pray for my children. Help me as I see them to see You as You hung bleeding upon the cross for them. Help me to be earnest, broken, and humble as my petitions ascend to You for wisdom that I may have success in saving not only my own soul, but the souls of my children.
Lord, Give me blessings, from You, that I may communicate to my children.
I pray that You will heal my children’s broken hearts and bind up their wounds.
Lord, help me to be an agent through whom You will speak to my children. Bring precious things to my remembrance and with a heart flowing with the love of Jesus, I will be able to speak words of vital interest and import. So that my simplicity and sincerity will be the highest eloquence, that my words will be registered I the books of heaven as fit words, which are like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Help Your words, through me, to become a healing flood of heavenly influence, awakening conviction and desire and Jesus will add His intercession to my prayers and claim for my children the gift of the Holy Spirit and pour it on my children’s soul. And then there will be joy in the presence of the Angels of You over one child that repents.
Lord, help me so that my prayers are not selfish, asking merely for my own benefit. Help me to ask so that I can give. Help me to have the principle of Christ’ life. For my children’s sake, help me to sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified. Help me to have the same devotion, the same self-sacrifice, the same subjection to the claims of Your Word that were manifest in Christ. I know my mission to my children is not to serve or please myself; I am to glorify You by co-operating with You to save my children, who are sinners. I am asking for blessings from You, Lord, that I may communicate to my children. I know the capacity for receiving is preserved only by imparting. I cannot continue to receive heavenly treasure without communicating to those around me. Please help me in this, Lord.
Lord, I pray that the melting love of God may warm and soften my children’s icebound nature.
Lord, I pray that the mighty energies of the Holy Spirit with all their quickening, recuperative, and transforming power, my fall like an electric shock on my children’s palsy-stricken soul, causing every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring their whole being from their dead, earthly, sensual state to spiritual soundness.
In Jesus Name,
Amen
I have shared a few of the prayers that I pray and I pray they will be a blessing to you.
I would encourage you to never give up. Keep praying. And let’s pray for one another.
Love you all.
Have you ever felt discouraged about your children or someone else you pray for? What has given you the courage to keep up the work?