Last year, I was convicted about the content of my prayers for my children. I realized I had been praying more for their health and behavior than the important matters of the heart. I prayed that they would sleep longer, fight less, and obey me more. While it was not wrong to pray those prayers, I was neglecting the most important prayers-for the Spirit’s ongoing work of grace in their heart.
As a result of that conviction, I developed a list of 31 topics to pray about for my children. These are heart topics, one for each day of the month. I keep the list in my prayer journal and use it to prompt me in my prayers.
My sweet friend Melanie helped me update my printables. While God has gifted me in a few things, one thing I am not gifted in is digital design:) Below is a printable of 31 topics to pray about for your children. Feel free to download a copy for yourself. The second printable is a prayer I wrote titled, The Most Important Prayer .
To download and print your own copy of this prayer list, click here
To download and print this prayer, click here
Do you have a special way you like to pray for your children? I’d love to hear!
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I love these printables! What a great way to keep our prayers for our kids more focused.
Love it, love it, love it! I had the same conviction awhile back and wrote down 31 prayer topics…they’re sitting in my journal. and I do pray one every day. Can’t wait to print yours out and enrich what I’ve already begun. Thank you, friend!
Great printables! I love praying Scripture for my children. For my daughter, I enjoy praying through Proverbs 31 for her. https://prayingproverbs31.com
These are great Christina!!
I pray Numbers 6:24-26 and Psalms 91:11 over each of my children every single night. Then I pray for the boldness and courage to walk out His will for each of them, always walking it out in His love and grace. If I don’t get to pray this over them because I am not here when they go to bed, I stand outside their door and do it when I get home.
I am sometimes so tired, but I am always convicted that I must do this. Both Joshua and Abigail know the prayer from Num and Psalms and often will say them with me or now, Abigail will say, “No, Momma, I will pray tonight” and she prays it herself, by herself.
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It’s always neat to find someone with my name and the same spelling! I agree about the prayers. God is interested in every aspect of our lives. I’ve shared your post on social media (FB and Twitter). I’m now following you too. God bless!
Christina,
I’m leading a women’s prayer retreat this weekend, and one of the tools I plan to share is a list very similar to yours that helps women pray biblical prayers over their children. I am convinced that God works more through our prayers than anything else. May God glorify himself through our children. I visited from Be Not Weary today. So glad I did!