The Treasured Time
D E V OT I O N A L
D E V OT I O N A L
Topic: Fighting for the Future of your
home & the Nation
Text: Ephesians 6:12
“For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.”
Ephesians 6:12(KJV)
Friends I have this leading that we need pray for our children in this time and season.
INSIGHT:
The main reason why so many of us begin praying for our children while they’re still in the womb: We understand that we’re in a war. And while we’re all targets for the enemy’s schemes, Satan is smart enough to recognize that attacks on our kids are especially powerful.
He understands that if he can grab their hearts and establish false teachings in their mind from the earliest age, all he has to do is sit back and watch the dominos fall.
But here’s the great news: The Bible promises that nothing can thwart God’s good plans for our children. No plan from the enemy can snatch our kids out of God’s awesome covering in the name of Jesus, Amen! And speaking of that enemy, we read in Revelation 20 that he has already lost the war. Amen!
As Christians, our job now is to fight! And as Christian parents, these great battles for our kids’ hearts are fought in prayer as we use God’s Truth to claim victory, break down half-truths and ask for divine guidance (2 Corinthian 10:3-5).
This is where we win the war of establishing God's kingdom here on earth, by making sure we secure the hearts of our children. Even to those who seek God in the area of the fruit of the womb as you pray for children right across your community, the Nation, Africa and the whole world... "I hereby declare and decree that the Lord release His oil of fruitfulness in your marriage in Jesus name, Amen!"
When we pray for our Children, we secure a Godly and perfect future. So, let's pray!
PRAYER:
- Self-Worth: Lord Jesus, help our kids know that we are all born as sinners and separated from God because of our wicked hearts. However, at an early age, help our children grasp the life-transforming concept that they don’t have to live as a sinner under that condemnation.
- Body Image: Lord we ask that you’d protect our kids from the idea that they must do anything and everything (including abusing their bodies through eating disorders, drug abuse, or other harmful behaviors) in order to attaining a “preferred” shape, figure or status. We pray you’d protect our kids from all forms of destructive thinking, and that if they’re tempted to take these kind of drastic measures, Lord send someone in their lives to stop them in the name of Jesus!
- Lord Help them to remember over and over that their identity is not in how they look on the outside but what You o Lord make them see as their potential and worth on the inside.
- Influences: Lord we pray that you would surround our children with friends and mentor-type relationships that portray what it means to have an authentic relationship with Christ.
- Lord we pray that you would raise our kids up to be the influencers of the next generation. We pray that you would allow godliness and righteousness to dwell in their hearts so richly that these evidences of your truth spill out of them and to every person they encounter.
- Passions: God, help us to know how to guide our kids in their passions by blessing us with the divine wisdom to know when to joyfully open up the gates toward new freedoms and desires, and when to curtail our children’s passions because they’re not able to accept the responsibilities yet in full.
- Lord help us model to our kids what it means to live passionately for You by boldly following the dreams you’ve placed in our heart, never settling for complacency.
- Money, Possessions and Work: Lord we pray that our kids would persevere in whatever vocation you give them and that they would work with cheerful hearts as if they were serving you directly.
- Lord we pray that our kids would see at an early age that money and possessions are a gift from You and thus must be always held with an open hand so that You can use those gifts to bless others.
Praise God!
He has made you an Overcomer...
Rejoice!
