3. Their Life’s Mate
Second only to salvation, few decisions will shape your child’s future more than who they choose to marry.
Long before your child ever shows interest in dating, begin praying for the person who may one day share their life. Pray for wisdom, discernment, and purity for both your child and their future spouse. Pray that God would protect them from relationships that pull them away from His purpose rather than toward it.
This kind of prayer isn’t about control. It’s about trust. Trusting God to guide one of the most consequential choices your child will ever make.
4. Their God-Given Purpose
Your child was created intentionally, with unique gifts, wiring, and passions.
Pray that God would reveal how He has designed them to serve, lead, create, and love. Pray that they would recognize their strengths without becoming prideful and acknowledge their limitations without becoming discouraged.
As a parent, your role is not to script their calling, but to help nurture it. Prayer helps you see who your child truly is, not who you wish they were.
5. Their Future Children
This prayer feels distant when your children are young, but it matters deeply.
The way your child parents one day will be shaped by how they were parented. Pray now for the children they may one day raise. Pray that your child would model faith, humility, patience, and love. Pray that the legacy of prayer you begin now would echo into generations you may never see.
In many families, prayer becomes urgent only after things begin to unravel. A relationship goes wrong. A decision feels reckless. Fear takes over. Parents fall to their knees in desperation.
Here’s a better approach.
Don’t wait.
Pray before the crisis. Pray consistently. Pray specifically. Pray by name. Prayer offered over years shapes hearts in ways panic prayers never can.
If parents prayed faithfully for their children over the course of eighteen years with the same intensity they bring to moments of fear, it could change the trajectory of entire families.
Take time today to pray for your children individually. Pray these five things over their lives. Then trust God to do what only He can do.
“Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6
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