LET US PRAY - For Our Children

Dear God, as our children are embarking on yet another day, week, month, and year of new experiences, learning, challenges, and growth, we would like to take this moment to [thank you]. Thank you for entrusting your most precious gifts (our children) - to us. God, I ask that you would bless us (parents) with wisdom. Help us to be mothers and fathers who sow wisdom into our children. Help us to lead by example. Let us not only be hearers ourselves, but doers of your word. Teach us to LOVE our sons & daughters with Your perfect love - patient and kind. Help us to be firm yet forgiving. Forgiving of our children when they make mistakes and/or bad decisions... Lord God, and help us to FORGIVE OURSELVES when we fall short.

Renew and refresh our spirits daily. Lord, help us to express to our children just how precious they truly are to us. Help us to maintain balance in our lives. Lord, bless our relationships with our children. Embed in their hearts that we are their safe haven. We know that school/life can be harder for some than for others, Lord, let our children never feel alone or hopeless, let their always be an open line of communication between us and our children. Help us to remain aware of what takes place in our children's lives. Lord, let not their hearts be heavy. As they face challenges, disappointments, and adversity, help them stand strong, in you. Let them know that in You they can do ALL things. 

Lord, help our children to be leaders! Let them not be easily influenced by what the world has to offer, instead help them to be reflections of your love to their classmates and teachers alike! God, help them to make the RIGHT decisions, no matter how hard or how many are making the WRONG decisions. Let them be the LIGHT in the dark. Lord God, we pray that you would keep our children safe and out of harm's way. Lord, we pray that you would bless them in all that they put their hands to, in your name. We pray that this would be a year of spiritual and intellectual growth, exciting new opportunities, achievements, family moments, new friends (which we pray YOU will help them to choose wisely), and all that you have for them. Lord God, keep our children healthy.

God bless our family units. Touch our marriages and our mother-father relationships - no matter the status of our current relationships, help us to work together as a parental team. Help us to make decisions based upon what is BEST for our children - as we acknowledge You Lord, please direct our paths. Help us to imprint upon our children, the importance of a personal relationship with you. God, we pray that this year would be the best one yet! We love you and we praise you! In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen!