I know it has been a long time since I started this, but I really do like to finish what I start, so I figured I would do some of these in between other things. When I looked back at the list, I was excited about today's prayer for our kids.
Passion - a strong, compelling emotion or feeling.
Because our relationship with God is such a personal thing, it is really hard as a parent to know how serious your kids are about God or how much of what you are teaching them is really sinking in and leading them to love God. All you can see or measure is their lives. And honestly, kids are rebellious. All of us have sinful tendencies until we ask God to help us and we become new creations in him. I can't make them love God and can't make them be passionate about serving him or choosing to live to please him. I can show them what it is like to live for God and I can teach them that God loves them and is faithful to help them and strengthen, but I can't make them passionate. That's where God comes in. He has to give them hunger and passion to pursue him and love him.
God, I pray that you will just love on my kids today. Show them how real you are and that your love for them doesn't change based on whether they make good or bad choices that day. Help them to see that living for you is worth giving up their own ways for your ways. I pray that your love for them and theirs for you will grow each day and they will fall in love with you more every day. God, show yourself to be faithful and loving and true to them so they know that they can trust you. I pray that you will lead them in your ways and grow them up to be the men and women of God you intended them to be. God, protect them from the distractions the devil will try to throw at them and help them to be single focused on serving you so much that nothing else in this world matters to them but you.
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