What about the children?
We stand and pray against the systemic attacks that plague our children and encourage every father, mother, grandparent, parental guardian and loved one to study God's word and pray for the lives of the children God has entrusted to them.
There is no age limit of a child where we should stop praying. In Genesis 27, Isaac was old and his eyes grew dim, yet he sought to bless his son Esau. In Genesis 48, while Jacob was elderly and sick, Joseph brings his sons Ephraim and Manasseh to him so they can be blessed by their grandfather. In Genesis 49, right before his death, as a last act as their father, Jacob releases his blessings over his twelve sons and ultimately over the twelve tribes of Israel they represented.
God never gives up on his lost children, John 3:16 shows his loves towards us as our father.
The father of the prodigal son never stop hoping and believing for the return of his son.
As long as there is breathe in our children, there is hope.
There is no limit of time, no distance, no earthly obstacle or spiritual boundary, a parent's prayer pierces it all! All that is required is time spent with God to temper the parent's heart, change their perspective, stir their belief in His word, then begin to hope, knowing that circumstances of their children do not determine their outcome, but prayer determines the outcome of the circumstances.
Scriptures for our children
Pregnancy/Child's Birth
Psalm 139:13-18
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.
Children Are A Blessing
1 Timothy 2:15
15 . . . she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Proverbs 31:28
28 Her children rise up and call her blessed;Her husband also, and he praises her:
Raising Children
Proverbs 22:6
6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesian 6:1-4
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise:
3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Teaching Children About Jesus
Matthew 19:14
14 . . . Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 18:5-6
5 Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.
6 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Children Are A Heritage
Psalm 127:3-5
3 Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Psalm 128:1-6
1 Blessed is every one who fears the Lord,Who walks in His ways.
2 When you eat the labor of your hands,You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.
3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house,Your children like olive plants All around your table.
4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
5 The Lord bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of JerusalemAll the days of your life.
6 Yes, may you see your children’s children.Peace be upon Israel!
Proverbs 17:6
6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
