How to Pray for Your Children

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God's word is sick. Chapter I can't think of a more more important lesson in life and to know how to pray for your family know I'll pray for your children. You just never know who you're talking. Yeah, none of those Barney sheets every night could be the next President of the United States, a surgeon teacher, pastor, a missionary which will take the gospel to the ends of the art mom and dad apparent themselves. The parents of your grandchildren one day. The potential is just mind-boggling and whatever their age or whatever the state they may be in life. There is a wealth of potential waiting, wanting to be unlocked to the life of every child and the golden key that unlocks the potential of every child is the key of prayer in Ephesians 6 verse 18 AFTRA series of verses in which the apostle Paul speaks of spiritual warfare. He calls us into the battle and the battleground is the place of prayer for verse 18 says, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this man with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints. Yes, it's a battle today may be tougher than any other time in history to raise godly kids and to be in the battle means to be in prayer. God is calling for parents today mom's and dad's who will be prayer warriors holding the word of God. The truth of God in their hands and in their hearts.

In developing the core values of the central virtues of our children's lives through spiritual development through the power of prayer because you see prayer does change live in the life that you change in the lives that you change will very likely be your own in the lives of your children and so let's talk this morning from the Scripture as to how we could pray for our children and I might add, our grandchildren, we are to pray comprehensively for Paul says, praying always with all prayer and supplication. Prayer is the general word which means variety of prayer all kinds of prayer and petitioner supplication refers to asking specific prayer requests.

So what kind of prayers that were to pray all prayers, all these different kinds of prayers.

What is that mean and what kind of prayers are we to pray for our children. The Lord's prayer is not simply to be routinely repeated, though it can be repeated, but most specifically the Lord's prayer is an outline for pray and each sentence in the Lord's prayer is a principal for our own prayer life. And so we see all kinds of prayer.

When Jesus taught us to pray, for example, that person is in the Lord's prayer says our father who art in heaven, with be thy name.

That's the first kind prevents adoration and then by kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Best submission as we submit our lives to the authority of Jesus Christ in his way and rule and in us and then give us this day our daily bread that supplication best asking and receiving as the Lord has called us to prayer. And then there's confession because we are to pray according to Jesus, and if we confess our sins and ask forgiveness he taught us to pray, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

That's confession and then were to pray for protection. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, and then were to pray with celebration for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

So there you have the elements. The basic elements of a balanced prayer life. Adoration submission supplication, confession protection and celebration. Now how do we pray that kind of prayer for our children when we begin with adoration, glorifying God because that's where prayer begins and certainly is a part of my own praying for my family and our children. I pray with praise to God for the children that he is given us for the Scripture says children are a heritage of the Lord and from the Lord. Therefore we spend time in prayer initially for our children as Jesus taught us to pray our father thanking God for the achievements in the lives of our children for the positive influences that have come their way, including the church of the Lord Jesus Christ for their personal growth and their spiritual development. We praise God we praise God for the times that he has delivered our children and blessed our children and and forgiven our children.

This is a time of adoration where we praise God for his presence in our family and the lives of our children spend time there giving thanks and then we come to the Lord and submission with our children, praying and asking that God would rule in their lives.

So often we want to form our kids, our children in our own image.

But that's not the goal of parroting the goal of parenting is to help our children to be formed in the image of Christ. First, by trusting him then and growing up in the full stature is Jesus grew up in favor with God and man. And that's how our children are to grow up and therefore we should be praying. Not that my will should be done in the half of my children, but that God's will be done for our children. Sometimes we as parents we push our children.

We want them to succeed. So we pressure our children and we trot our children but if you want your children to succeed. Pray that your children will do the will of God. Don't push don't pry don't pressure but pray that God's will would be done in their lives on earth as it is in heaven rather than imposing our agenda on the lives of our children that God's agenda would be accomplished in them.

That is, submission, and as we come and submission of our own lives. We discover that our own children learn from us what it means to bow down and to worship God and to give our lives in fellowship and fellowship with him. But then there's another kind of prayer.

Paul said to pray with all kinds of prayer. So we pray with adoration for our children. We pray in submission to God for our children. And then there's petition or supplication for Jesus said, give us this day our daily bread. Do you pray for the needs of your children. Sometimes we wonder, and we worry if our children are going to be taken care when all along God is said ask and you will receive. Pray for the needs of your children. Be specific. So many of our prayers are just so general all Lord bless the children bless our family less a safe pray we don't know if God answered that prayer not accepted a general way. But when you begin to pray specifically for your family and in particular your kids and God begins to provide and you'll see them provide for every need.

You will recognize that prayer not only changes us. Prayer changes things, prayer changes lives. Prayer changes, circumstances, and God's honor bound by his word to hear and answer our prayer and so we ask in faith believing.

But not only he said all kinds of prayers and not only adoration and not only submission and petitioner but were to pray in confession. Now I can't confess my children sin, but I can pray that God would lead them to repent and our children are weak just like we're weak because they inherited it from us and we need therefore, because our children fail in our children stumble in our children are going to sin against God. We need to pray first of all, that they will come to Christ at a very early age that they will know Christ and the reality of his love and his forgiveness and his power. Jesus said, let the little children come to be in the best time person could come to Jesus Christ is as soon as they know who Jesus is and recognize their need of a safe and so we began to pray that they will know Christ and then as they grow up as they stumble and fall, that they will recognize their need to repent and to come to Jesus Christ and repentance and faith.

But there's another part of that little phrase about forgiveness. He said pray in forgiveness that our debts might be forgiven but also of the debts that we owe others. The trespasses against others, and so if you want your children to know confession and if you want your children to receive forgiveness then you live a life of forgiveness and be a forgiving person as well and then he said all prayer so we are to pray for God's protection on our children. Now, I daresay many of us are already praying that kind of prayer that is a daring grant of desperate prayer that is so needed because our kids are facing more temptation, more potential trouble in disaster than ever before. There's a lion loose and he's loose in your house.

The Scripture says he's a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. And the devil is seeking to seduce our children and to trip up our kids and to take them for his own and in prayer we build a shield of protection for our true. It is in prayer that we overcome the enemy. This is the warfare of prayer. So we need to be praying constantly Lord deliver my children lead them not into temptation but deliver them from evil. Deliver them from those moments when they especially are in danger. There may be times when we're not even aware they are in danger, but if we're praying for them. God will protect your listening to PowerPoint with Jack Graham in his message how to pray for your children. After this month with a special gift for our listeners to give a gift through message series called invisible. What can you tell us about this great while many people only focus on was visible. There is an invisible realm that is just as real. In fact even more real.

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And those kids are just constantly hearing the grumbling and moaning and whining.

Rather than rejoicing and praising God for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

We talk about IQ. I tell you something is better than IQ for your house and that GQ not the way you look at the way your pray your gratitude quotient are you living a life of gratitude negative. Christianity is a bad advertisement for Jesus Christ.

So pray with praise in your heart for God inhabits the praises of his people and if you praise God and if your house is a place of prayer and where God is praise, then God's presence will be in that place, pray comprehensively pray continually, he says, always, that doesn't mean that we pray on our knees, moment by moment, but it does mean that we have an attitude that is adjusted always the prayer that we are with just a breath away from prayer that there's a God consciousness. Too many times we pray about something and then we quit, but we pray persistently because God does business with those who mean Ms. God knows our hearts.

We don't have to twist God's arm but God does know it was serious about our pray where to always be praying for our children get on mother has a radar system given notice that attunement to the faintest cry of the baby is just this incredible radar. Now I know sometimes we guys when babies cry in the middle night we just you know we can roll over and say I'll pray you go take care of the baby. But a lot of times I just sleep through that stop and get deadwood here this this faintest Russell slightest movement. The taking care that baby why because her ear was attuned to the faintest cry of a baby you know mothers also had this incredible's way to find out what you're doing you ever realize that me and I couldn't get away with anything. I don't know how she knew that stuff.

I think she would just guessing on some of it in the guilty plea when no man pursues as part of what you see there's a sensitivity in our heavenly father. Here's the faintest cry. The slightest call and we are to be like a mother of two to God in prayer and the slightest need in our children the slightest cry of our children were praying for taking care of prayer power then were to pray confidently for Paul said we to pray always in all prayer in the spirit of the reason I say pray confidently because if we pray in the spirit there's prayer power when we pray in the spirit. I say the prayer that starts in heaven is a prayer that gets to have prayer is like a circle is not linear is cyclical. Here's God in heaven God the father that something was accomplished in one of his children, so he by his word, and by his spirit puts that on our hearts. He just sends it down by the spirit of God puts it in our hearts puts it in our mind puts it in our thought life. God sends down a request. Some need something that needs to be accomplished. God sends that down puts it in our heart and we just close the circle by praying back in the spirit in the power of God best praying in the spirit it means spiritually dominated, spiritually directed prayers. That's one reason I often pray the Scriptures for my children. I think Scripture passages and pray because I know if I'm praying the Scriptures. I'm praying in the will of God, and I pray the very breath of God. God's word for our children and we can be confident that God hears us, because we may boldly say because he has boldly said that's what the Bible says translates to confidence in pray when we pray in the spirit will that that was that was all girl Pringles bedtime prayers little girl said God bless mommy and God bless daddy and God bless my brother and God give me on, thereby dad wanting to teacher about prayers in the hunt, you have to you have to shouts allowed to God he can hear you when you pray like that. She said all I know that but grandma's in the next room and I wanted her to hear what I wanted. Pray confidently that God will hear you. You don't have to shout but you pray in the still small voice of the spirit. This is what I want to call parent power parent power parent power is prayer power because when parents pray in Jesus Christ. God moves as I said earlier.

Prayer changes lives and the lives that you change will be your own in the lives of your children. Someone said what makes greatness is starting something that will live after you best greatness starting something that will live after you in our children. In his will will live after us long after we're gone. Our children will be here in their children so we need to be thinking not just about now. But those future generations, our children and their children and their children's children's children. We can have influence over the next hundred years or more. How praying for our children and our grandchildren because prayers are beyond this world. Prayers last beyond time and space, prayers, purpose actually work in the half of our children. For the Scripture says, blessed is the generation of the upright. Your prayers will still be working in the lives of your children and their children and their children's children my grandfather since I didn't know my other grandparents. They were wonderful Christian folks as well, but you've heard me speak of my grandfather since we lived with him and my fondest childhood memories sitting in his lap as a boy would sit on the front porch of the swing.

Whatever happened to front porches and swings sit on that front porch and rock and he would share with me from the Scriptures or read Bible stories and you know we Fireflies as we call them over there in Conway Arkansas lightning bugs talk about God's creation.

He pray for his grandson and those prayers are still reverberating and echoing in my heart today in my grandfather's prayers are still being answered today because he was a man who took seriously the call to keep on praying that my friend is power. Where to pray confidently where to pray comprehensively where to pray consistently and were to pray constantly and carefully for the Scripture says in closing here. Be watchful of this in with all perseverance vessel term which means a soldier watching at his post were to be in our prayer post as though we were in a battle working spiritual warfare against the works of the enemy. We know that Satan is stalking our kids is humanism in the schools.

There's a man centered worldview. Our kids are living around situational ethics evolution histories being rewritten political correctness, sexual promiscuity, alternative perverted lifestyles are everywhere and the only way to combat the signs in the lives of our kids believing prayer constantly persevered everything her appointment at grandma's message to pray for your children. Many cars, houses, even careers. Every single one of these trappings of success will one day fade away in this 11 message series invisible Dr. Jack Graham pulls back the curtain on the rich spiritual reality of the world around you and shows you how to win your spiritual battles and to live each day that really matters. This insightful 11 message sent is a special thanks for your gift today to help more people here in truth and eternal life in Jesus Christ so called today to get your copy of invisible DVD when you can call one 800-7954 67 that's one 800-7954 67 can also text the PowerPoint to 313131 text PowerPoint to 313131.

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So the godly influence upon your children is best expressed through prayer, you say well how do I really pray. How can you really pray for your children. Start by praying for their salvation. Pray that they would come to know Jesus early in their lives and that you give them every advantage and every opportunity by not just taking them to church, but leading them to church get the better church for the gospel is preached with the word of God is shared so that they can hear the gospel in Sunday school classes and vacation Bible school and camps and all the opportunities that are provided by so many churches to give children the opportunity to come to Christ early so pray for them and then put your prayers and action by getting them involved in the ministry of a Bible believing church pray for their future debit. I have prayed for our children's spouses. We prayed for their careers in advance. We prayed for the colleges that they would choose.

We pray into the future for our children. And as you pray for their future. You watch God's future develop in their lives, then we pray for God's strength and power to face the onslaughts of temptation. So many temptations today so many incredible evils that they face. Just pay attention when your children are watching television and see what's going on, into their lives and into their little years and I guarantee you the world is bombarding them with messages that are from God, we need to bombard heaven with our prayers so that our children would be protected from evil, and these days show up for prayer every day. I'm a big baseball fan. Scott and I love the stories of Cal Ripken, the great shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles. How he showed up to play every day. He played more baseball games consecutively than anyone in the history of the major leagues breaking Lou Gehrig's record that they thought would never be broken.

He just showed up every day.

He was the greatest homerun hitter. He wasn't the greatest average hitter. He wasn't even the greatest shortstop, but he did one thing and he did it very very well. He showed up every day. He put on his spikes. He put on his uniform.

He got his club. He took his bat and he played the game. I'm asking you listener to show up every day for spiritual battle for your kids for the sake of your family for the sake of your own future for the sake of the church in the kingdom of God that you with every day be at your place of prayer and that you would get done what God is called you to get done and that is to be a faithful prayer warrior for Jesus Christ. So let's not just talk about prayer. Let's pray right now. Pray for your children pray for them by name.

Pray for them by need, pray for them and ask God to bless them. Ask God to protect them.

Ask God to raise them up as godly men and women. It will make a difference in their lives and make a difference in your family to make a difference in your own heart and one more thing. After you pray for your children. Let them know write them a letter pick up the phone and call them and tell them how your praying for them that you are praying for them.

They may be shocked they might be surprised but I guarantee you they'll be grateful that they got a parent who cares enough about them to pray and to call their name before the God of heaven.

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