A daily guide for praying for your children can help you to pray intentionally for your children and keeps you focused on the Scripture. Praying Scripture helps us to ensure that our prayers on focused on God’s will.
One such Scripture that is a great blueprint for praying for your kids is 1 Timothy 4:12…
“Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.”
1 Timothy 4:12
This is a great verse to pray for your kids, because it specifically is asking your kids to be an example to other believers in 5 areas. These 5 areas can correspond to the 5 days of the week. Take one word and pray for each one each day. I have boys, so these are all masculinized, so if you have girls you’ll have to do the pronoun conversion!
Monday: Words
• that his words would kind, even to people that are mean to him
• this his words would be necessary for building up, even though people around him are tearing down
• this his words would be true, even though people may advance by speaking falsehoods
Tuesday: Conduct
• that he would seek to show through His actions the love of Jesus
• that he would not demonstrate an inconsistent testimony between his faith and actions
• that he would radically serve others, even at the expense of his own comfort
Wednesday: Love
• to show non-partial love to his friends (which ones?)
• to grow in his understanding of selflessness (what area, currently?)
• that he would grow in His knowledge of Christ’s love for him, and that it would drive him (is he growing in grace right now?)
Thursday: Faith
• that his commitment to Christ would grow deeper
• that his faith would be evident to the people around him
• that he would trust God more with his future and His will for his life
Friday: Purity
• that he would continually present his body as a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God (Romans 12:1)
• that conformity to the world, specifically in purity, would lose it’s appeal through surrender of his body (Romans 12:2)
• that his mind would be continually transformed through renewal of the Word, thus being able to know God’s will (Romans 12:2)
• that he would see women not as objects, but as fellow heirs of the grace of life (1 Peter 3:7)
That’s a way that I have been able to pray for my boys. I wrote about another way here, that I would invite you to check out.
There are some great benefits to using the Scriptures as a prayer guide. How about you? What has been effective for you as you have prayed for your children? Leave some comments below so we all can learn.