Heavenly Father, as our good and perfect parent, you want and do what’s best for your children. Would you raise up in the parents of my church a heart to do the same?
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Full Prayer
Please pray aloud:
Heavenly Father, I come to you now interceding for the parents in my church.
As they clean up spills, breakup arguments, coordinate meals, drive kids to practices, and wrangle baths, the days can be exhausting, Lord. Would you come over them by your Spirit, right now, and give them your very real and supernatural strength for your calling? Strengthen the feeble hands, O God!
In your Word you model what it is you want for parents—you lead us, you provide for us, you protect us, you teach us, you encourage us, you correct us, and you forgive us. Help the parents in my church do the same!
Help our parents to lead their homes, to choose the good and godly things for their family before all other pursuits or pastimes. Regardless of the age of the child, God, give our parents discernment on what to say, how to say it, and when to say it as they speak with their children.
Help them to provide for their children’s needs by stewarding the money they have earned in a way that honors you. And where there is lack, open your generous hand to provide for them.
Help them protect their children from the dangers of sin and the world. Give them vigilance to guard their homes from the slow compromises that gives the Evil One a foothold.
Help our parents encourage their kids as they try new things and discover who you made them to be. Don’t let them pressure their children with an unhealthy drive for perfectionism, acceptance, or accolades.
Help them to do as your Word pleads and train up their children in the way they should go. To talk with them about your kingdom with every chance. All so their children may love you all the days of their lives.
Finally, God, when their children sin, fail, or fall short, help our parents show them the very same mercy and grace you showed us in Christ.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
