How to pray for your children By Bennie Mostert.

Practical guidelines

1.     Regularly bless your children. Use the prayer in 1 Chron.4:9-10 or Num.6:23-27. you can pray it as a prayer for them or you can use it as a blessing when you do bible study.

2.   Pray God’s purpose for them.  Pray that they will understand God’s purpose for them and why HE created them.

3.   Pray for your children according to Gods promises, not according to your expectations for their lives. God has committed Himself to honoring His promises.

4.   Do not complain and grumble when you pray for your children. Such prayers are born from unbelief and lack of faith. Pray and trust God.

5.   Do not allow any feelings of bitterness or unforgifeness toward your child. Ask God for His love in your heart: unconditionallove, love regardless of what happened in the past, love in spite of how your child behaves.

6.   Discuss your children with God……. Before seeking advice from other people. Parents often discuss the behavior and problems of their own children, ask for help, complain about their children and seek professional help, but do not pray for them.

7.   Do not accuse your children before God. Your role is to come before God as a priest to plead for grace and mercy. The devil is the accuser. If you accuse your children before God and tell Him of all the wrong things they do, you are doing exactly what the devil does.

8.   Do not try to do the work of the Holy Spirit. You can not change your child’s heart. That is the work of the Holy Spirit.

9.    Do not be hasty with your child. Do not expect your child to change overnight. Most things in your child develop over a long process of change {Do you remember that it was the same when you were a child?}. As parents our responsibility to God is to produce godly children [Mal.2:15]

10.            Simple prayers are good enough. Sometimes a single sentence prayed several times during the day is enough. Do not complicate your prayers.

 Scripture on praying for your children
  Psalm 37:25-26
  Psalm 103:17
  Psalm 112:1-3
  Psalm 128:1, 3
  Proverbs 3:3
  Proverbs 14:26
  Proverbs 20:7
  Isaiah 44:3
  Isaiah 54:13
  Matthew 18:14
  Acts 2:39
  Acts 16:31
  Colossians 3:20