This is How We Pray for Our Children

A year or so ago, I came across a post by the parents of one of my very good friends. In this post, her parents - missions workers and church planters in Cambodia for many years - shared a list of requests and ways in which they have prayed for their children (and grandchildren and great-grandchildren) for the past 30 years. With their permission, I am gladly sharing this with you.

 (Email us for a downloadable PDF copy of this list on 4x6 cards)

THIS IS HOW WE PRAY FOR OUR CHILDREN

by JD & Kim Crowley

For around 30 years Kim and I have prayed for our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and their spouses (often during a time of fasting and prayer during the Tuesday or Wednesday lunch hour). Besides praying for individual requests as needs arose, we have prayed the same general requests below, week after week, year after year—and we’re constantly amazed how God faithfully answers. The more we pray, the more we receive. God has given us enough faith to believe him to answer these requests to the fourth generation, that is, our great-grandchildren. For the generations beyond that, it’s up to our kids to continue this tradition.

Faith

Grant them a heart of repentance from sin

Give them faith in Christ from an early age

Fill them with your Holy Spirit, and the fruit of the Spirit

Lead them to be baptized into your church

Make them members of a strong church with godly elders

Give them spiritual gifts for use in the church, and help them faithfully use them

Lead them always to increase in holiness

Keep them within the orthodox faith of Christ and the apostles.

Protect them from false teachers and false teaching

Make them fruitful proclaimers of the gospel, filled with love for all

Make them humbly committed to daily prayer

Give them hunger for daily Bible reading

Fill them with love and forbearance toward others

Help them endure trials with faith and joy

Help them guard their conscience

May their lives be like the sun that rises stronger and stronger until the full of day

Wisdom

Give them hearts that constantly overflow with thankfulness

Make them peacemakers

Give them a vocation/skill/work that provides for their family and is useful to society

Give them a sense of purpose and joy in their life work

Rescue them from the fear of man

Provide for them a good education

Help them apply themselves diligently to their studies and other work

Rescue them from laziness and dishonesty

Influences and Relationships

May they be quick to forgive

Give them godly friends all their lives who will influence them to love God

Give them godly influences from “uncles and aunts” and “substitute parents,” especially as our influence wanes

Don’t let them go through a time of teenage rebellion

Help them remain pure and enter marriage as virgins

May they marry only strong believers

Save, sanctify, and bless their future spouse

Keep divorce away from their lives and their children’s lives for many generations

Give them the gift of children and the grace to raise them up in the faith of Christ

If they are to remain single, make them unusually fruitful for God’s kingdom

Protect them from sexual predators

Protect them from deviant sexual desires

Physical

Heal and protect them from sicknesses and diseases

Protect them from accidents

Give their country peace in their lifetime

Megan
for the Sisterhood

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