FRIDAY: Praying for our school aged kids!

Stepping Out in RED Shoes!

 - Day 105 -

LORD... We bring our children before you and ask that you'd watch over them and guide their in their studies.  We pray they would love learning. We pray that they'd love reading!  Grant them a good education LORD.  Bring wonderful teachers and mentors into their life. -- People who will inspire them, challenge them, bring out the best in them!  We pray that you'd keep them from wolves in sheep's clothing.

That said, LORD we pray they'd be eager to learn and soak up all they can about You --Your Ways -- Your Word.  We don't doubt that You have a special plan for each one of them.  Help us to train them in the way in which they should go.  May we provide a good, solid foundation for them.  Help us to parent them, to discipline them when needed, to teach them good manners and proper behaviors.  We pray we would be the Good Example for them to follow.  Help us to accurately reflect You to them.

We recognize, LORD, that we are their best teachers and that learning begins in the home.  Let our home be filled with Godly Love, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Self-Control.  May it be a place of warmth and safety.  We pray that they would love their family and their home -- that their friends would always feel loved and welcomed as well.

As parents... give us spiritual eyes to see as you see.  Give us divine wisdom.  Help us to keep our children at the top of our priority lists.  Never let us forget that You are but a prayer away and are always there to guide us and them.

We pray that our children will find good friends in life.

Keep our children safe LORD.  Help them avoid temptations.  Deliver them  from evil.  As they get older, keep them safe.  Watch over them.  We pray they would make good choices -- Godly choices.  We pray that we'd always be there for them in time of need -- That we'd be encouragers -- That we'd be loving and understanding, just as You are with us.

In Jesus' Name we come against all the powers and principalities of evil.  We bind them and their deceptions, their trickery, in JESUS Name.  We cast them down at the foot of the cross, and proclaim in advance, TOTAL VICTORY over our children.  We plead the BLOOD OF JESUS over them with our prayers, knowing that our God protects better than we ever could!

THANK YOU LORD for this parental partnership with You on behalf of our kids!

In JESUS' NAME.  Amen.