We are two-thirds of the way through with the “30 Days of Prayer” series. Yesterday, the prayer was for health of the children in your life.
Today, I’m going to talk about praying over their relationships.
Like us, children have a lot of different relationships. Parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and many other family members are part of their world. There are friends at school, daycare, church, and teammates on their sports teams. As they get older, there are people in their after-school activities, coworkers at their jobs, and some may even begin to start dating. So, there are a lot of different interactions they have on a daily basis.
As the adults in their lives, we may have a little influence on their relationships, but they must be allowed to learn how to communicate with the people around them.
They need to learn how to interact with people, and they must learn to make choices about who they will have friendships and personal relationships with.
Day 20- Praying for the children in your life to have healthy relationships
We should pray that the people that children surround themselves with are people they get positive feedback from. Healthy relationships will help them grow and mature into productive adults. We can pray that they have people in their lives who bring them peace, and people who will help them to feel loved and cared about. Pray that they know the right thing to do if they get into sticky situations, and that if they have been wounded by friends they had in the past, that they can safely talk about those things, so that they can heal from them.
If your children are old enough to date, pray that they seek Gods will for those relationships and that they are kept safe and healthy as well.
Their family relationships vary, but many children have siblings either in the home or living elsewhere.
There are so many dynamics when it comes to siblings. Some live together, some do not, and some kids have half siblings, step siblings, adopted or fostered siblings. Each situation has different prayer needs. We can pray that the kids we know have good relationships with their siblings and that they appreciate each other even in their differences.
If any of your children are having a difficult relationship with their siblings, or other family members, take the time to pray for healing in those relationships. Pray that your children have healthy relationships with each other. Sometimes the nature of the relationship can change, but ask God to help them value each other and ask that He watches over the way they communicate with each other. Ask that they are protected from any feelings of favoritism and protect them from feeling the need to engage in sibling rivalry.
If you have a strained relationship with one of your children, pray regularly for healing in that relationship.
Sometimes, while raising children, there are stages that are more difficult, and there are times when prayer is more of a necessity just to make it through it. If I can offer some advice based on my own experiences, I’d like to say that if your relationship with one of your children is strained, those times don’t last forever. The biggest thing you can do is just keep praying for them. At the same time, it is important to pray for wisdom and healing in your relationship. Remember to extend grace to your children when things get tense. Remember that they too have good days and bad days, and can go through both easy and difficult stages in their lives.
Continue to pray for them at all times.
If you have good relationships with your children, thank God for that and take this time to pray that things stay that way. Ask God to protect those relationships. Take a moment to pray that God gives you the time and the opportunity to continue to build those relationships.
Again, this is not just a day to pray for your own children. If you don’t have children right now, you can take today to pray over other children you have in your family or your personal life.
We give children an incredible gift when we spend time on our knees praying for them.
When there are things our hearts cannot get settled, God gives us this wonderful way to pass those worries on to Him, releasing those worries with the faith that He hears our cries.
When we love our children, we can put our hope in God and pray to Him to care for their needs when we don’t know how to.
Today’s prayer:
Dear God,
Our children are surrounded by people every day. Please protect their hearts from being hurt by anyone they are close to. Lord, you know that these young people are still learning how to navigate through their lives. Guide them and help them have healthy and easy communication with people in the places they go. Thank you for good friendships. I pray today that they find people to connect with who value and uplift them. Help them to be smart in their relationships with others. I pray that my own children learn to value each other and their close family members. Thank you for these incredible children. Thank you for trusting us to raise and walk with them and the other young people in our lives.
Amen
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