Prayers for your Children and Grandchildren
Each day of the month, in addition to the prayers for their safety and for the concerns of that day, pray for a specific character trait, virtue, or fruit of the Spirit to be planted and nurtured in your children. May this help you pray specifically and purposefully for your children. If you would pray with your children each day, and remember that day’s character quality in their hearing, you may find that they will also pray for that quality or virtue for themselves.
1. Lord, let salvation spring up within my children, that they may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. (Isaiah 45:8; 2 Timothy 2:10)
2. I pray that they may grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 3:18)
3. Grant, Lord, that my children may learn to live a life of love through Your Spirit who dwells in them. (Ephesians 5:2; Galatians 5:22)
4. I pray that integrity and honesty may be the virtue and the protection of my children. (Psalm 25:21)
5. Father, help my children not to be like many others around them, but let them be "alert and self-controlled" in all they do. (1 Thessalonians 5:6)
6. Heavenly Father, may my children grow to find Your Word ‘more precious than gold; and sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb." (Psalm 19:10)
7. God, help my children to love justice as You do and to "act justly" in all they do. (Psalm 11:7; Micah 6:8)
8. May my children always "be merciful, as their Heavenly Father is merciful." (Luke 6:36)
9. Father, grant that my children may "show proper respect to everyone," as your Word commands. (1 Peter 2:17)
10. Help my children develop a strong self-esteem that is rooted in the realization that they are "God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:10
11. "Let love and faithfulness never leave my children," but bind these twin virtues around their necks and write than on the tablet of their hearts. (Proverbs 3:3)
12. Lord, please instill in my children a soul with a craving for You, a heart that clings passionately to You. (Psalm 63:8)
13. Grant that my children may learn responsibility, "for each one should carry his own load." (Galatians 6:5)
14. Lord, may my children "always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else." (1 Thessalonians 5:15)
15. Grant that my children may "be generous and willing to share and so lay up treasures for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age." (1 Timothy 6:18 - 19)
16. Father, let my children "make every effort to do what leads to peace (Romans 14:19)
17. May the God of hope grant that my children may overflow with hope and hopefulness by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
18. Lord, teach my children perseverance in all they do, and help them especially to ‘run with perseverance the race marked out for them." (Hebrews 12:1
19. Lord please cultivate in my children the ability to "show true humility toward all." May they recognize that others are actually responsible for achievements in their life. (Titus 3:2)
20. Lord, please clothe my children with the virtue of compassion. (Colossians 3:12)
21. Grant, Lord, that my children’s lives may be marked by prayerfulness, that they may learn to "pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests." (Ephesians 6:18)
22. Father, teach my children "the secret of being content in any and every situation … through him who gives them strength." (Philippians 4:12 - 13)
23. I pray that faith will find root and grow in my children’s hearts, that by faith they may gain what has been promised to them. (Luke 17:5, 6; Hebrews 11:1 - 40)
24. Lord, please help my children develop servants hearts, that they may serve wholeheartedly "as if they were serving the Lord, not men." (Ephesians 6:7)
25. "Create in them a pure heart, O God," and let their purity of heart be shown in their actions. (Psalm 51:10)
26. Father, I pray that my children may develop self-discipline, that they may acquire "a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair." (Proverbs 1:3)
27. May my children be filled "with joy given by the Holy Spirit." (1 Thessalonians 1:6)
28. May my children always be "strong and courageous" in their character and in their actions. (Deuteronomy 31:6)
29. Lord, please help my children clear the record of those who have wronged them and to bear no grudge against them. (Romans 12:17 - 21)
30. Lord, help my children see and respond to situations from Your perspective. (James 1:5)
31. Lord teach my children to know the right thing to do or say in any situation. Grant them the courage to always do the right thing.