Do you know you should be praying for your kids but don’t know how? Or do you wait to pray when life is difficult? I have. Do you want to be a praying mom? So why don’t we pray continually?
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We know we should pray for our kids, but for various reasons, we don’t. Here are a few common reasons:
- Fear
- Not knowing what to pray
- Lack of time
- Too much chaos to make time to pray
- God doesn’t hear my prayers
- I can’t pray until I get my life together
“And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36:26
God is the one who works and changes the hearts of His people! It is God that instructs us to be faithful. Part of being faithful is to practice praying for our kids even when we feel inadequate. When we pray for our kids, we are practicing obedience to the Lord.
“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
James 5:16
Our prayers accomplish much. Don’t discount the power of prayer in cultivating the right heart in you and your family. They are watching how you live.
There is no need to stress out because you don’t know how to pray. We simply must trust in the One who does know the plans He has for our family.
If you have older kids and haven’t established a routine of praying for them, it’s not too late. Start right now! I keep a prayer journal and pray specific prayers for all of my adult kids. They know I pray for them and will ask me to pray for something specific. It brings me enormous joy to know I can go before the Lord on their behalf.
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If this episode blessed you or encouraged you to pray scripture over your children, let me know. I’d love to hear from you.
Thank you for joining us here at Equipped To Be!
xoxo, Connie
About Brooke McGlothlin
Brooke is the cofounder of Million Praying Moms and the author of 5 books, including her latest, Praying Mom: Making Prayer the First and Best Response to Motherhood. She’s a wife and mom to two teenage boys who make their home in the mountains of Appalachia, calling southwestern Virginia home.
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