How to intercede and confess for your children
*Praying Parent Tip: Click on the links below to find 20 additional prayers for parents to pray over their children. The Challenge: We can do more than pray for our children to have a good day or pray God's protection over them. We can pray for them to feel conviction. We can confess their sins. We can cover them with blessing. We can give grace for their failures and trust God with their futures . We can offer them up as living sacrifices every day because they belong to God, and we are parents merely to steward their souls and disciple them in Christ. We must stand in the gap for them, to raise them up in the Word, to lead them to Jesus, to model faith., to pray for their growth. This is Christian parenting . The Example: " Early in the morning he [Job] would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' This was Job’s regular custom." ( Job1:5-6 ) The Prayer: Lord God, You are a Fa...