Praying Daily for Your Children

On Tuesday evenings my daughter, Elizabeth, and I go to our church for Bible study classes. In two years we will earn a Bible Studies certificate. This semester one of our classes is Survey of the Old Testament taught by our church's pastor emeritus, who was a faithful pastor at our church for over 46 years! My parents went to this church before I was born so I grew up hearing his preaching.

This past Tuesday night we were studying the books of 1 and 2 Samuel. He was talking about one of the reasons Samuel was such a great man of God is because he had a faithful, praying mother. He spoke to the ladies in the room and told us that is the best thing we could be for our children.

I agree. I don’t say that with self-righteousness in any way. I say that convicted and knowing I can ALWAYS do better. No one has arrived as the "prayer warrior" they need to be, especially me.

Also, guess what? Today is my birthday. :) When my former pastor said that to us it made me think about my life and my upcoming birthday. I know I want to be the best momma and wife and daughter and sister (and so on) that I can be. I hope we all want that.

My desire is for my children to one day say *I* was a faithful praying mother.

Today, I wanted to share the way I pray for my kids. It is using a monthly calendar. You may have seen one before or even use one yourself. I took the idea and created one specifically for my children, but it is generic enough for every mother (or father) who wants to pray daily for their child if you do not already have a schedule or format.

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I am also sharing an alternate idea I created for praying daily for your child. It takes the calendar idea above and makes it more compact so that you can pray for these attributes or virtues for your children in a week's time.

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What I like about this format is that you can print it on cardstock, cut it out into cards, and keep it in your purse, Bible, or like I have tried, the pocket of my big barn coat I wear each time I take the dog out on walks around our property. As I walk the dog I can pull out my next card and pray as I walk. Us mothers are good at multitasking, am I right? You can also punch holes in the top left corner and use a book ring to hold them together if you would like.

Either way you can print these off and put them somewhere where you will see them and use them each day. Maybe in your desk at work to use on lunch break or during some downtime, in one of your bathroom drawers so as you get ready each day you can use them, in the laundry room so while you are doing laundry you can pray....use those times throughout the day to pray for your children or husband or friends, etc.

For my husband I created one as well. I honestly know I could spend hours praying, and I pray throughout the day as I think of friends and family. I have found it is the one thing I can DO when I do not know the words or cannot help in any other way. Being on the receiving end of prayers in times past, I know how important it is to have friends praying and how much you can FEEL it when you are going through something.

Several months back I created a prayer journal using ideas I found online and from a lady I know. I don’t know about you but very often I get overwhelmed with all the people I want to pray for – immediate family, extended family, church friends, other friends, church staff, missionaries, government, ME. Yep, there is a LOT I need and want to pray about so putting it together in an organized manner really helped me. (I may share the whole design one day.)

My hope is that this will be an encouragement to you and a tool that will be useful in your prayer life.

Do you already have a schedule you use to pray for your family? Tell me about how yours works!