31 Days of Prayers for Your Children

The bible says ” The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” James 5:16. Our children need our prayers more than ever. They’re bombarded daily with issues that are contradictory to the christian faith.

Prayer is a powerful, powerful weapon against sin. Ephesians 6 tells us to put on the full armor of God so that we can take our stand against the devil’s schemes. And to pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

We also know that children are an inheritance from God. A blessing. A gift. Why wouldn’t you want to pray God’s blessing and protection upon them. 31 days of praying for your children is the only way you can cover them in protection in every sense.

As their parents, whether they’re still small or grown, we want to keep our kids safe and protected and to help them make the right choices. We also want them to know God. I mean to fully know God and love him with all their hearts, mind, and strength. To have a burning love for him that surpasses all things.

But we can’t be everywhere, see everything, control anything, or change hearts. But there is one who can. Our God is an awesome, powerful God who can turn the hearts of our children to him. Who can protect, love, direct, and motivate.

Praying for our children is a must. They need the hedge of prayer hovering over them daily. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of 31 ways to pray for your children. Be sure to pick up the list located at the bottom of the page.

31 Ways to Pray for Your Children

• For their Salvation

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Acts 26:18

• To Love God With All Their Heart, Soul, and Strength

Pray for them to love Him fully and completely with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their strength. Dt 6:5

• Protect Their Innocence 

Pray for God to protect their innocence. Our children are only children for a short time. They grow up all too fast.

Romans 16:19 …but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

• Protect their Eyes from Harmful Images

We all know pornography is rampant among the youth. With cellphones in hand and T.V.’s in most homes, harmful images are only a click away. Our kids need prayer to protect their eyes from these things.

Psalm 119:37  “Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.”

• Guard Their Hearts from Evil

Pray for them to have a clean heart. Pray for their hearts to be guarded from evil for from it flow the springs of life

Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.

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• Godly Friendships that Point Them to God

Pray for God to place friends and adults in their life who point them towards God and help them make wise choices because “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.” Pr 13:20

• Keep Their Eyes and Heart Pure

Pray for them to have the desire to keep their eyes and heart pure for God and for their future spouse.

Matthew 6:22-23  “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

• Give them a Love for God that Surpasses all Things

Pray for them to love God first above all things because “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Mt 22:27-29

• Be Bold in Speaking up for Christ

Pray that they not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ and not be ashamed to go out into the world and tell all.

Matthew 28:19-20 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

• Diligent in Everything

That they may be diligent in the work of their hands and not grow weary of doing good, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

1 corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

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• Self Control

Pray that they have self control because “A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.” Pr 25:28

• Quick to Listen

Pray that they may be quick to listen to the needs of others, quick to listen to apologies, and quick to listen at all times.

Proverbs 19:20 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

• Slow to Anger

That they may be slow to anger

“For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” James 1:20

• Quick to Forgive

Pray that they may be quick to forgive others when they have sinned against them because they have been forgiven in Christ.

Colossians 3:13 Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

• Ask for Forgiveness From Others When It Needs Asked For

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

Matthew 5:23-24 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

• Generous Heart

Pray that your child have a generous heart because “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Mt 6:21

• Give them Servants Heart

That they may render service as a good will as to the Lord and not to man

Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

• Physical Health

Pray that they be protected against cancer, illnesses, and accidents of any kind.

Exodus 15:26 Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

• Emotional Health

Pray for them to be free from depression and mental illness. Pray that they are able to express their emotions in a healthy way and that you are able to be emotionally strong for them.

Psalm 147:3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds

• Resist Sinful Temptations

Pray for them to be able to stand strong against sin and all the temptations that are thrown at them from day to day. Pray that they are able to stand strong against peer pressure.

Ephesians 2:1-10 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— …

• Wisdom

That they may make wise choices in all they do. Pray for God to grant them wisdom to see what their bad decisions is going to cost them.

Proverbs 3:13-18 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. …

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• Draw them More Closely to Jesus

Pray that their heart be more completely His. That they are drawn closer to Jesus than they ever have been.

John 14:15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

• Completely Trust in Jesus

Pray for them to completely trust in Jesus and that their faith never lacks. Pray for them to have a strong faith and to always know that Jesus is Lord.

Phillipians 3:8  Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ.

• Find Their Self Worth In Jesus

Pray that their self worth is found in Jesus and the love that he has for them. Pray that they know they are wonderfully and fearfully made in the image of God. That they not depend on the world for affirmation.

• Love Justice

Pray for them to love what is just and what is right.

Psalm 37:27-29 Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever. For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever.

• Love God’s Word

Pray for them to have a love for God’s word that changes their hearts for the better.

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.

• Integrity according to God’s standards

Pray for your children to have integrity according to God’s standards, not the world’s standards. Pray for them to walk in righteousness and integrity at all times.

Phillipians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

• Good reputation

Pray that your children make choices that gives them a good reputation among their peers and the people they encounter. A reputation that will not hinder them in life.

1 Peter 2:12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

• To Find their Calling

Pray that they know what their calling is from God. Pray for them to seek it out and follow what God’s will for their life is.

Jeremiah 29:11 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.

• To Be Able to Receive Affection From Their Parents

Pray that your children are able to receive affection from you because this is highly important for their emotional stability in life. Pray that they are also able to reciprocate that affection back to you.

Romans 12:10

• Learn How to Pray

Pray for your children to learn how to pray and to want to pray, Pray for you to be able to show them and to remember to show them how to pray. Remind them that a prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

1 Timothy 2:1-4 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Let’s remember to teach our kids to pray. Remember to let your kids see you pray. Let’s take these 31 days of praying for our children and pray them month after month and shower them in prayer that will last them a lifetime and bless them for a lifetime.

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