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8 Weekly Prayers to Pray For Your Kids While They’re at School

September 14, 2017 By Joshua Straub 4 Comments

I genuinely believe there is no greater parenting technique than to pray boldly for our kids.

For many of us, sending our children back to school can feel like an emotional roller coaster ride. Fears and questions concern us. Will they make friends? What challenges will they face? Who will influence them? Can they keep up academically?

If you homeschool, your fears about your kids may be a little different, but are no less valid or worrisome.

The reality is that God gave us our kids to steward well. God chose you to raise your kids. I think that’s incredibly generous and really cool of him. It’s also humbling.

That’s why we need God’s help.

Whether you homeschool or send your kids off to school, here are some prayers you can regularly pray for your kids each day this coming school year.

Monday: Father, though grades matter, I pray that you instill in my children a love for learning. Give them wisdom, insight, and understanding above all else.

Tuesday: Dear God, surround my children with friends, mentors, and loved ones who champion and affirm their worth, strengths, and gifts. Place people in their lives who love them dearly for who they are.

Wednesday: Father, help my children to be honest, hard working, rested, patient, faithful, empathetic, and kind. (Insert your own values into these prayers for your kids. You can pray a different value for your kids each week as well).

Thursday: Dear Lord, instill in my children the courage to do the right thing, even in the face of it being unpopular or them being picked on for it. Give my children the call and resolve to be kind and strong, and to walk confidently in Your love for them.

Friday: Father, your eyes are looking throughout the earth for a heart that is completely yours. I pray these hearts for my children. Woo them to be undeniably in love with you.

Additionally, here are a few extra I pray regularly as well:

A prayer for character: Dear God, develop my children’s inward character. Help me to show my kids, by how I live and teach, that I value it more than outward success or the accolades of others.

A prayer of lovingkindness: Father, whether it’s a word of affirmation, helping with a task, standing up for someone, or giving a gift, help my child to show someone they’re valuable today.

A prayer for good belly laughs: Dear Lord, I pray for a belly laugh today for my children. Teach them the value of having fun and laughing hard. And Lord, do the same for me.

Tell us, what prayers do you regularly pray for your children?

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Comments

  1. Rodger Mares says

    September 21, 2017 at

    Thank you very much Dr. Joshua & Christi for the weekly prayers. Yes and Amen prayer works! As a man of God, myself, my wife, my eight year old daughter Alyssa and my five year old son Dominic, we go in my closet! Haha, yes, it’s our family prayer closet. We go in there weekly, sometimes bi-weekly, depending on our schedule and we take turns praying. It’s a privilege to be able to lead my family and also learn about intimacy with my family. I also teach my children to memorize confessions. Like “God is the strength of my life, I can do anything with Jesus in me”! “In Christ I can do all things & overcome all things for I am annointed & strong in Word & deed”! “I am committed to obey God’s Word, His principles and with His help, live by them, by doing so my way is prepared easy, blessed, prosperous, healthy & successful! Thank you Lord that Your Word is true & You are faithful to Your Word”! I’d thought you might like these confessions. Joshua my wife and I seen you at IMC19 in Phoenix Arizona in 2014. We loved you then and we we love both you and your Queen Christi now. May God continues to bless you abundantly!

    Reply
    • Joshua Straub says

      September 21, 2017 at

      I love this! I may have to steal this idea and begin putting our kids with us in the closet too! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this. What a great way to model prayer for our kids. I appreciate your kind words too! May God continue to bless you and your family!

      Reply
  2. AJ says

    September 25, 2017 at

    I wish this was a printable I could put in my Bible as a bookmark.
    Thanks for writing!

    Reply
    • Joshua Straub says

      September 25, 2017 at

      You have my permission to do it if you’d like!

      Reply

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