Praying for Children-UPDATE

Jesus blesses the children

Today a recommendation:

Here is a distinctively Evangelical slant at praying the Scriptures for our children by Thom Turner, using an Eastern Orthodox lens. It is an interesting place to begin exploring this topic, and enact practices like these for our offspring, (or the children in our lives). In this way, we learn how Christians have prayed blessings for children over the centuries, and God is honored by our petitions and praises.

UPDATE new post from Thom:

A Prayer for Our Children: Song One

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:09 PM PDT

This is the first prayer of “A Prayer for Our Children.” This prayer should be read slowly and meditatively, pausing on each phrase and line break. A brief silence should be held between the call and response.

Call

Almighty God, you nurture all Christians.
We are your servants whom you have delivered from evil,
and we sing to you with grateful thanks.
With your mighty arm you deliver my children from all dangers,
and with joyful tears we cry out to you:

Raise my children (insert name of child) to be worthy of your kingdom.
May they be shaped into heirs of your eternal blessings.

Response

Just as the Archangel Gabriel was sent to Mary and Joseph to protect Christ from harm,
I pray that the hosts of heaven come into our midst.

I pray especially for God to intercede in our lives. Be my help, so that I:

Raise my children to be earthly angels.
Raise my children to be heaven-minded.
Raise my children to be your kingdom servants.
Raise my children to pray: “Rejoice!”
Raise my children (insert names), to be made worthy of the Kingdom and make them heirs of eternal blessing.

Amen


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Lisa Colón DeLay writes often on matters of the attending to the inner life, creating a beloved community, spiritual formation, and consciousness. She is also a designer, teacher, speaker, and host of the weekly broadcast Spark My Muse since 2015. Lisa is Latina (born in Puerto Rico) and holds an MA in Spiritual Formation and is the author of "The Wild Land Within" (Broadleaf Books) and other books.

3 thoughts on “Praying for Children-UPDATE”

  1. Hi Lisa,

    I feel that God gave you this to give to me. The men and especially the women I minister to in prison who are parents are crushed by in credible guilt, loss, anger, powerlessness. It has become my burden. A couple of weeks ago, I was reading Hebrews, about Jesus’ priestly ministry of always interceding for us. Because of this, I realized that our acts of intercessory prayer are raised to incredible heights, joining Jesus’ intercessions before the Father. Now you send me this. I am working on a service for my folks and a bookmark I can give out. Pray (intercede) for me :) Love and miss you, Val

  3. Dear Lisa,
    what a beautiful prayer.thank you so much for sharing this prayer with us.This made my day..Jesus love children very much.As a parents there is nothing big than the children.They are the hope of their life.Jesus is also our father and he can not see us in any type of trouble.Like we love our children Jesus also love each and every one in this world because we all are His children.we also pray for the kids and help them to reach to the Jesus.We try to teach them the way of become a true follower of Jesus.Your prayer is really very touching..Thanks again for sharing

    May Jesus always bless You…

    children ministry yorba linda

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