{"id":5083,"date":"2011-03-30T07:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=5083"},"modified":"2011-04-01T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T13:03:26","slug":"praying-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/praying-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying for Children-UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesus blesses the children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today a recommendation:<\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a distinctively Evangelical slant at praying the Scriptures for our children by Thom Turner<\/a>, using\u00a0an 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.<\/p>\n

UPDATE new post from Thom:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Prayer for Our Children: Song One<\/a><\/p>\n

Posted:\u00a031 Mar 2011 12:09 PM PDT<\/p>\n

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This is the first prayer of \u201cA Prayer for Our Children.\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Call<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almighty God, you nurture all Christians.
\nWe are your servants whom you have delivered from evil,
\nand we sing to you with grateful thanks.
\nWith your mighty arm you deliver my children from all dangers,
\nand with joyful tears we cry out to you:<\/p>\n

Raise my children (insert name of child) to be worthy of your kingdom.
\nMay they be shaped into heirs of your eternal blessings.<\/p>\n

Response<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as the Archangel Gabriel was sent to Mary and Joseph to protect Christ from harm,
\nI pray that the hosts of heaven come into our midst.<\/p>\n

I pray especially for God to intercede in our lives. Be my help, so that I:<\/p>\n

Raise my children to be earthly angels.
\nRaise my children to be heaven-minded.
\nRaise my children to be your kingdom servants.
\nRaise my children to pray: \u201cRejoice!\u201d
\nRaise my children (insert names), to be made worthy of the Kingdom and make them heirs of eternal blessing.<\/p>\n

Amen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Today a recommendation: Here is a distinctively Evangelical slant at praying the Scriptures for our children by Thom Turner, using\u00a0an 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 … Continue reading Praying for Children-UPDATE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[4587,4586,4584,633,12,14,15,4583,1157,4581,4578,4580,1472,2143,4588,4579,2377,4585,60,2996,85,4582,4469,91],"class_list":["post-5083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-akathist","tag-blessing-children","tag-care","tag-children","tag-christ","tag-christians","tag-church","tag-eastern-orthodox","tag-evangelical","tag-everyday-liturgy","tag-father-nektarious-serfes","tag-frederica-mathewes-gree","tag-god","tag-mary","tag-mother-of-god","tag-mystical","tag-nurture","tag-parent","tag-prayer","tag-scripture","tag-theology","tag-theotokos","tag-thom-turner","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5083\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}