Mornings With Jesus 2016: 14-Day PlanSample

Sometimes as a mom, I get overwhelmed with all I should be doing for my kids’ spiritual development. I should be reading the Bible with my kids, teaching them Scripture, training them on character qualities, helping them understand prayer. The list is endless.

Equally important are my prayers for my kids . . . but when I started considering all I should be praying for, I got so overwhelmed that I didn’t do anything. That’s when I came upon this beautiful simple Scripture. This makes a perfect prayer that we can pray for our children:

“I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return. May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God” (Philippians 1:9–11, NLT).

When we don’t know how to pray, the Bible provides perfect examples.

There is a lot that goes into training up godly children, and our prayers will prepare us for the task and they will go to work in the Spiritual realm too. Our prayers take us to where we can’t go ourselves—to the throne of God. And our prayers will do more for our children than we can hope or imagine. —Tricia Goyer

FAITH STEP: Write out Philippians 1:9–11 on a few three-by-five index cards. Post them in places you see often, like the dashboard of your car or your mirror. Read it as a prayer for your family members.