Today I want to call us to pray over our families. You might be married or single. You might has no kids, 1 or 10. You might be getting married soon or have been married for years. No matter your place in time, you have family.
Your family might not be by blood but by choice. That would be like a church family you are close to or friends that have surrounded you during dark times. There are people who are like a family.
This is a great day to spend some time praying over your family. Why should you do that that? Good question … A family that prays together stays together. That might be a little cliche’ yet true.
We can powerfully pray for our families, that our loved ones will be beacons of light and hope to a dying world in desperate need of a Savior. Through our prayer for our family, generations are impacted in the future, and all glory goes to our great God!
Here are a few verses to give you insight in to those prayers:
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Pray for your parents and honor them by telling them about your prayers.
Proverbs 22:6
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Pray for your children and let them know you are praying for them. I believe we should pray over our children with our children so they hear our prayers.
Psalm 122:8
For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
Pray for the peace of your family.
Galatians 6:10
Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Pray that your family will do great things and live out faith in God.
Ephesians 3:14-19
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Pray specific prayers for your family, like this one. Give them to God and speak life. Stop the negative talk. Be an influence for good and for God over your family. Pray for the salvation of your family that have no accepted Jesus. Begin with prayer.
Now, I stop for the end of this e-devotion to speak to dads. May we be the example, for our kids and for our friends. May we beg God for our kids and family. May we know that God is the one we have to trust!
1 Timothy 3:4
He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.
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