Praying for family

Father, I pray for my children and grandchildren and all the generations to come. Father, in everything we think and do and say, let our motives be pure, our attitudes right and our priorities in order. Help us to fulfill all the potential you’ve placed within us. In Jesus’ name and for your glory. AMEN. SO BE IT.

Lord, I pray that my children would be totally committed to serving you with all their hearts. Lord, help us all to become part of the passionate bride of Christ. Lord, I pray that their salvation would be sure and secure in you – radically saved, new creatures in Christ Jesus.

Help us all to grasp forgiveness for ourselves and release it for others. Let us be pure in heart - harboring nothing as guilt in ourselves or bitterness toward others. Cleanse us from all unrighteousness and let the fruits and gifts of the Spirit be abundant and remain.

Lord, place within each heart a passion to serve you and a confidence in the power and privilege of prayer.

Help us to lay a strong and firm foundation that cannot be shaken. Ground us in the truth of your word untainted by religion and self-righteousness. Help us to get it right. Align us with your word and your purpose.

Give us a deep and abiding love and sense of responsibility for each other. Cause us to be a healthy family that loves and cares for each other. Help us not to overstep our boundaries, but cause us to be close and accepting of one another.

Father, strengthen us in the places where we are weak and vulnerable. Lord, keep us from addictive behaviors and substance abuse. Help us to turn from unhealthy lifestyles and to become all that we can be in you. Lord, I tear down every stronghold of lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life – I loose righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Let your kingdom reign in our family.

Show us the best ways to nurture and discipline each child. Show us how to raise children who are full of integrity, pure in heart, respectful, good students, hard working and clean in body, soul and spirit. Show us how to be organized and effective in everything we do. Help us to get things done and finish what we start. Show us how to work smart.

Be God of this family. Help us to keep you as the central focus of all that we are and do. Lord, help us to be totally committed to you.

Lord, silence the outside voices and influences that would turn the hearts of my children in wrong directions. Give them teachers and authority figures that will guide them in the way of truth and help them to be all that you have ordained them to be. Give them friends and cause them to be friends that strengthen and correct and enable each other to be better because of those relationships.

Father, heal all the wounded hearts in our family. Lord, I ask for deep and complete emotional healing and restoration.

Lord, give my children a deep abiding love for your word, your house and your presence.

Bless this family – in Jesus’ holy name. AMEN 

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