The Children
August 8, 2024Taken from pages 241-243 of Prayers That Avail Much Commemorative Gift Edition, © 1997 by
Word Ministries, Inc.
The Children (of all ages both minor children and adult children)
Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray and confess Your Word over my children and surround them
with my faith – faith in Your Word that You watch over it to perform it! I confess and believe that my
children are disciples of Christ taught of the Lord and obedient to Your will. Great is the peace and
undisturbed composure of my children, because You, God, contend with that which contends with
my children, and You give them safety and ease them.
Father, You will perfect that which concerns me. I commit and cast the care of my children once and
for all over on you, Father. They are in Your hands, and I am positively persuaded that You are able
to guard and keep that which I have committed to You. You are more than enough!
I confess that my children obey their parents in the Lord as His representatives, because this is just
and right. My children honor, esteem, and value as precious their parents; for this is the first
commandment with a promise: that all may be well with my children and that they may live long on
the earth. I believe and confess that my children choose life and love You, Lord, obey Your voice,
and cling to You; for You are their life and the length of their days. Therefore, my children are the
head and not the tail, and shall be above only and not beneath. They are blessed when they come in
and when they go out.
I believe and confess that You give Your angels charge over my children to accompany and defend
and preserve them in all their ways. You, Lord, are their refuge and fortress. You are their glory and
the lifter of their heads.
As parents, we will not provoke, irritate, or fret our children. We will not be hard on them or harass
them, or cause them to become discouraged, sullen, or morose, or feel inferior and frustrated. We
will not break or wound their spirits, but we will rear them tenderly in the training, discipline, counsel,
and admonition of the Lord. We will train them in the way they should go, and when they are old they
will not depart from it.
O Lord, my Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth! You have set
Your glory on or above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and unweaned infants You have
established strength because of Your foes, that You might silence the enemy and the avenger. I sing
praise to Your name, O Most High. The enemy is turned back from my children in the name of
Jesus! They increase in wisdom and in favor with God and man. Amen.
Scripture References:
Jeremiah 1:12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
Isaiah 54:13 All your children shall be taught by the Lord,
and great shall be the peace of your children.
Isaiah 49:25 For thus says the Lord:
“Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken,
and the prey of the tyrant be rescued,
for I will contend with those who contend with you,
and I will save your children.
1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
2 Timothy 1:12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.[
Psalm 91:11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
Deuteronomy 30:19,20 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, 20 loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
Deuteronomy 28:13 And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,
Deuteronomy 28:3,6 3. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 6. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:1-3 Children and Parents- 6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Psalm 91:2 I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
Psalm 3:3 But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Psalm 8:1,2 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
Psalm 9:2,3 I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before[a] your presence.
Luke 2:52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
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