Are You Praying Regularly for Your Kids?
- 11.10.10
- Parenting, Prayer
- 6 Comments
Tom Bishop is a man who is passionate about prayer. He’s the author of several self-published booklets on prayer including the book, Praying Down the Path of Your Child’s Life. He believes that prayer is the most powerful tool by far in a parents arsenal. Here is what he told me a while back about about the importance of praying regularly for our kids.
All teenagers are going to go through crisis, problems, and all the stuff the world and the devil will throw at them. I think the difference is that those that are being prayed for survive and come out the other side. Those who aren’t being prayed for are in most cases the casualties. It’s really crucial that those we love the most are prayed for. In James, he says we don’t have because we don’t ask.
Do you want them to have the right friends? Ask for them. Do you want them to have godly instruction, godly counselors, and godly professors? Ask. Do you want them to connect up with the right mate? Ask.
God has a desired plan, but He doesn’t do things until His people ask Him. When it sunk into my head that God waits until His people pray before He moves, I decided that I didn’t want to miss out on all the things He has for me and my family. I vowed to start asking then and there!
Prayer is hard work. The devil fights it, and we don’t often see immediate results or get the immediate gratification we’ve been trained to expect. You have to spend time, you have to hear from God, you have to tie it to His Word, and you have to pray in faith.
Out of that process, He eventually gets us praying the things that He wants. It is then that we really connect with Him; it just takes quality time. It happens best when we set aside a time and place and really cry out to God.
Over the years, I have used some of Tom’s books to help me with my prayer life. They can all be downloaded for free by clicking here.
Every time I look at a digital clock and the number are the same…i.e. 2:22 or 4:44…I stop and pray for my kids
…someone told me once that I should make a wish when that happens but I thought that was kind of pointless so I decided to pray for my kids instead. And since I sit in front of a computer all day I pray a lot…and God is good. He has answered many a prayer 
Yo, Mike, I always read these… & I try to retweet ‘em. Keep it up.
Thanks for posting this Mike. Personally I think that praying for your kids is one of the most important things we can do as parents (and not just when they are little – we have two who have just finished their first year of marriage and all the challenges that go with it). I used to use a resource (I think I got it from a focus on the family magazine) that had a particular trait for each day of the month – so we prayed for “a desire to follow Christ” one day a month for all of them in addition to whatever was going on in their lives. I think it is equally important to pray WITH them on a regular basis, especially for dads and their sons during the junior high/high school years as we model for them what it means to be godly men, and lead them in the transformation to become the next generation of godly men.
Your blog is both entertaining and informative. Have laughed out loud at the crazy signs, and been convicted to pray more for Samantha. Thanks!
This is such a simple yet abundantly powerful post. There is so much under the surface of these words. Thank you!
I have been thinking about this so much lately , thank you!