Praying the Lord’s Promises over our children.

Praying for your children.

In Genesis we learn about Abraham and his faithfulness to God. The more you study the book of Genesis the more you will learn about how great Abraham’s faith for God and for the promises given by God was. His wife Sarah had times where there was little faith and because of it; it did bring some self destructive choices and issues into the marriage (but that story is for a different time).

 

Abraham was so faithful to God that he even took the son God had promised to him to the mountain top to sacrifice because the voice of the Lord told him to do so. When God saw that Abraham listened and was going to do as He said, He stopped Abraham and provided the sacrifice that he needed in the bush. Abrahams’ son Isaac witnessed his father to be faithful to the Lord and listened to His commands which later shows how Isaac became obedient and faithful to God.

 

The significance of Abraham and Isaac as father and son is about how God delivered a promise to a faithful man and the promise was going to touch every generation. Through this one promise, Abraham lineage would be as many as there are stars.

 

As a mother raising five children, I personally look forward to watch my children serve the Lord for the rest of my days.

I also look forward to my grandchildren and great grandchildren serving the Lord.

This is something I pray for our children often.

I look forward to my children's children serving the Lord. It is why praying the Lord's promises over them is so important to me as a mother. #prayeringforthenextgeneration Share on X

To watch our children grow with wisdom and reverence for the Lord. Allowing God to bless them with a spouse that also walks with God and watch them develop families that serve the Lord with all their hearts. I understand that this may not go as I see it in my head but I have faith for the generations to come.

 

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,

That they may arise and tell them to their children.

Psalm 78:6

 

I was raised in a home that served God. My father was in ministry most of my childhood. We went to church every Sunday and to many revivals that my father preached at with passion. He made it look so exciting! It would overflow to many around him.

 

My husband was also raised in a home that served God, his father has now been a Pastor for close to thirty years. His father serves the Lord wholeheartedly, giving everything he possibly can to the ministry and to anyone that is in need.

 

Our background might say that we have been saved our whole lives, but no, we were not. I gave my life to the Lord at age 24 as I was experiencing a divorce with two young children. I turned to God in hopes to save a marriage that was serving each other but instead He saved me to serve Him!

My husband gave his life to the Lord at age 32 after realizing he just wanted peace in his life. Neither of us had our parents walk us through the salvation prayer. It was us that came to Christ…..

But parents, this is where praying the scripture Proverbs 22:6 our children comes into effect.

 

Train up your child in the way he should go, and when he is old

he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

 

If it wasn’t for our parents first showing us their faithfulness to God, then we would not have understood that going to God during a devastating time can heal wounds. Or when feeling a lack of contentment in life, God can bring peace to our spirit.

 

As our parents served God and allowed God to teach them how to raise their children, their children developed other characteristics that later played a vital role in coming to the Lord.

 

As I was going through a divorce with two young children, the thoughts of how to get through it the best possible way was constantly on my mind. I would often recall the hardship times we went through as a family when I was young. How my mother never showed us how she was suffering but instead she did the best she could with what we had.

 

If our lights went out in the home, our play time turned into prayer time and singing praises loudly together to the Lord with joy. If we didn’t have food in the cupboards then our walk to the park that day turned into an adventurous journey across town to the Salvation Army for a meal.

 

As a mother, I finally realized it wasn’t that those moments didn’t hurt her, she just chose to seek the Lord for strength. She reverently prayed over her children for peace. Those memories encouraged me to ask the Lord to give me strength and peace for me and my children. I prayed that they would not see devastation but instead a mother that did not allow defeat. And God did. He gave me strength and perseverance; which reminded me of how real God is in my life.

 

It brought me to salvation one night alone in my bedroom. The next day I called my sister and told her I would be attending her church that Sunday.

 

When my husband was young, his father taught him to always keep his word. A man’s word is his honor. This became instilled into my husband. He once told me, at some points in his life; his word was all that he had. His father taught him to always have integrity and commitment in all that he does.

 

Whenever he was invited to church, he did not lie or give hope to anyone he would be there. He would just be honest and say no. Then….one day his grandmother invited him to church for the upcoming Sunday; before thinking about it, he said yes. He couldn’t believe he said it. Now that the word yes was out of his mouth , he knew he had no choice but to go. He was taught better than to not follow through.

 

My husband went to church that Sunday for the first time in years. He listened to the Word of God that day. Later in our relationship he told me, it felt everything that was spoken that day was specifically spoken for him. He knew God was leading him to salvation that day. Because of what he was taught and was instilled at a early age, the Lord directed him to the alter.

 

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 16:9

 

As two people gave their lives to God; prayers from parents, grandparents and great-grandparents came to life.

Even the prayers of praying for our children’s future spouses began to reignite.

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When Anthony went to the alter that Sunday morning, I was sitting next to my father instead of my usual seat. When I had stepped into the sanctuary my father scooted over and told me to sit next to him. A few moments after the salvation call had began that day; my dad leaned over to me and whispered, “That is the man you are going to marry”. I looked up to him with disapproval of the comment. I told him, to stop trying to make me move on. It was only three years after the divorce. I wanted to wait for whoever God was going to bring into mine and my children’s’ lives.

 

For four months, that guy came back to church every Sunday service but we never spoke. As I was speaking to the Senior Pastor one day, the Pastor asked if I have met his son. It was the man that gave his life to the Lord that one day that my father whispered into my ear,

“That is the man you are going to marry”.

He shook my hand. It was another month till we spoke again and when we did, we never stopped.

 

The prayers and words we speak over our children are powerful!

When God promised Abraham and Sarah a child, then promised them generations as many as the stars we became part of that promise. I’m sure our parents much rather have had us come to salvation while we were children which would have saved all of us a lot of heart ache but even though we didn’t, that did not mean that God did not hear the earnest prayers of our parents or the generations before us, petitioning for salvation to come to all the descendants.

 

Even Sarah became discouraged and thought God was not going to deliver the promise that was told to her husband, but it did and brought many nations, kings, and more descendants than they could count.

 

Keep praying for your children. Pray the Lord’s promises over their spouses and the generations to come.