What to Pray For Your ChildrenEsimerkki

My third prayer for our children is “that God would save them from unnecessary pain.”

1 Chronicles 4:10 records the prayer of a man named Jabez who was all but forgotten over the years until an author rediscovered and wrote about his simple prayer. In the Bible, this man named Jabez prays: "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.”

While I know that God mysteriously works through our pain to reveal Himself and His plans and purposes for us, I am simply praying that God would, in His great mercy, shield our children from all unnecessary pain and suffering.

While I know that some pain and hardship will be inevitable in this life and that Biblical truth tells us “we all must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22), I pray that our children will be protected from any and all but the most necessary hardships.