Part 4 | How to Properly Pray (For Your Children)
From Colossians 1
Proper prayer should do three things for parenting:
1. Prayer with the of God.
📖 2 Corinthians 1:10–11 ESV …He will deliver us again. 11 You also must help us by prayer…
2. Prayer my children in God’s Hands.
📖 1 Samuel 1:27–28 ESV “For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him. 28 Therefore I have lent him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD.”
3. Prayer in my children’s .
📖 Galatians 6:8 ESV The one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
What are for children?
1. Avoid prayers (for your children).
When we pray , we ask for what today, but may faith tomorrow.
📖 Proverbs 30:8–9 ESV Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, 9 lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.
📖 John 17:15–17 ESV I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
2. Practice prayers (for your children).
A. Pray that God their with His .
📖 Colossians 1:9 ESV And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
“Father, I pray my children will be with your , have the to it out and the to it to their life.”
B. Pray that God is with their .
📖 Colossians 1:10 ESV So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
God has greater in for my than I do.
📖 Jeremiah 29:11 ESV For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
C. Pray that God will their with His .
📖 Colossians 1:11–12 ESV Being strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
3. Pray knowing that your may be after you’re .
📖 Revelation 5:8 ESV And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Sermon in a Commitment:
Father, today I put aside wants for myself and/or my children. I commit to praying for your and your that I/they may you.
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