Seek Sample

Day 12

Pastor Preston Coles

Topic: Protection for Our Families

Scripture Reference: Psalm 91:1–2

Devotional:

Protection is something that we don’t always think about until the moment we need it the most. Maybe after your car was broken into overnight, you then install motion lights around your house. Or after someone broke into your home, you then go back and install an alarm system. Or you don’t think you need flood insurance until, well, the basement floods for the first time in twenty years. Whatever the situation is, it seems too late.

The beautiful thing about the Lord is He promises His protection over our lives and our families. We simply need to grow in our proactive prayer life, claiming these promises from God. As believers, we get to take action for our families and step into the protection and under the covering that God has for us long before we find ourselves in situations where it feels like an afterthought. We know this protection is true from Psalm 91:1–2:

Those who live in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him. (NLT)

Our families are every bit of who we are. Although they might be messy at times, they are the ones who God has entrusted us to do life with from our first breath to our last. The family unit is God’s original design for us not only to have those to do life with, but also to show us a beautiful image of how His Kingdom operates. Because of this, the enemy knows that, if he can take out the family, he is taking out the core of the structure of God’s beautiful design. The family is an intimate, sacred space that we need to protect and pray for protection over. This is nothing to take lightly.

So today, as you are praying, claim the protection of God over your family. You can pray this prayer:

God, I thank You for my family. Thank You for the ones with whom You have allowed me to do life. Lord, I ask Your hand of protection over [name them individually] today. Holy Spirit, would You not only protect our physical lives, but our spiritual lives as well. I pray against any attacks from the enemy over my family in Jesus’ name. Protect my family against any plan the enemy has to kill, steal, and destroy us. I choose today to live in the shelter of the Most High. In Jesus’ name, amen.