Praying The WORD Over Our Children

Regardless of age, our children will always be our children. Just like we are our parents' children; no matter howl we get we still call them Mother and Daddy or Mom and Dad; never by their first names. It's a respect thing. 

Fruits of Stewardship

I like Joyce Meyers. I enjoy listening to her preaching and teaching what she has studied. One time she talked about the Fruits of Stewardship and suggested making a list of Scriptures that we would want prayed over our children. So I did. 


Our children can PHILIPPIANS 4:13  **************** Our children do all things through Christ who gives them strength

Our children are DANIEL 1:17, 20  ******************Our children are full of wisdom, knowledge and understanding

Our children  MATTHEW 4:19 ********************** Our children are fishers of men

Our children MARK 16:15 ************************** Our children preach the gospel (with their actions and by their words)

Our children ACTS 2:4 ***************************** Our children are baptized in The Holy Spirit     

Our children live ROMANS 12 ************************  Our children live uncompromising lives

Our children know 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19, 20 *********** Our children know they are bought by God and glorify God        

Our children walk 2 CORINTHIANS 5:7 **************** Our children walk by faith, not by what they can see

Our children GALATIANS 6:2 ************************ Our children pray for each other and together

Our children EPHESIANS 5:17 *********************** Our children understand God's will

Our children COLOSSIANS 3:17 ********************** Our children are known by their actions/words and are men and women of integrity with thankful hearts

And that's how I pray for our children. But not just the children of my body, the children of my heart, as well. I am a stepmom twice over: those are my kids, too. Some of my children's friends call me Mom, I get respect. Those are our children, too. I was a Sunday School teacher, a nursery worker and a Youth Night Bible Study Leader. Those are the children I pray for, too. Our grandchildren are our children's children. They get covered in prayer as well. 
As I see how many children have made this list, I realize that I have been a fruitful vine. God is gracious to me and I give Him all the glory for what He has done in me, through me and to me.

An Open Letter To My Children

     I will always love you. Nothing you do can ever stop me from loving you. You will always be my sons, my daughters, my children. Whether I brought into this world or adopted you into my heart and my life, you are my sons and my daughters.

     In case of emergency, the plan is to meet at home. And if home is where the heart is, then my home is with Jesus, 'cause that's where my heart is. So, I plan on meeting you all there.
     I'm saved because someone never stopped praying for me to receive Christ as my Savior. I am right with God because I acknowledged the sin in my life, repented of it, and God forgave me for it.
     One day, you, too, will know Christ as your Savior. One day you, too, will come to the full knowledge of what it means to be saved and set apart. Because I and so many others are praying for your salvation.
     You may think you are already saved because I raised you in church. And while that helps you more than realize now, it is not enough to attend church when the doors are open. It is not enough to pay tithes on your incomes. It is not enough to donate your time and money to charities. It will never be enough.
     You are not rebelling against me, nor against the way you were raised: you are rebelling against God. Think about that, if you can, if you will. And know that just like Job of the Bible, who met with God daily for the sake of his children, I too, am meeting with God daily for the sake of mine.


Love,
Mom

P. S.  And, as a side note, I pray for your friends and their families; I pray for your girlfriends and/or your wives/husbands. I pray for their families. I pray for your children and grandchildren. I know God hears my prayers. The Bible tells me so.

Spirit Song-Just Call My Name

IAM here
IAM HE that hears your cry
Just call MY NAME
And I will help you
IAM here

IAM HE that fills your wells with water
IAM HE that feeds your hunger
IAM here
Just call MY NAME

IAM HE that brings your healing

IAM HE that fights for you

IAM HE that moves the waters

On dry ground

                     you walk through

Just call MY NAME

     Written during an altar call after the message was preached. God is healing me. I have had some of this illnes thing my whole life. The tremoring of my lips showed up when I was a child. The vision decrease showed up when I was 11: got glasses for the first time. These last few years I have gone from bi-focal lenses to tri-focal lenses. I wonder if there is an upgrade?
     It is 2:45 AM and I am still awake. I am singing to Jesus while I wait to fall asleep. And I am praying for my son, who starts high school tomorrow. I am both nervous for him and excited for him. This is the school he chose to go to and I hope it works out well for him. He will be riding city buses to and from school. This is new adventure for him.
     He needs the prayers of the saints to get him through the next three days and through the next four years. He is our baby; after this child there are no more. Perhaps part of my excitement is because in  a few years my husband and I will be all each of us has; we will get to know each other all over again. There has never been a time when there wasn't a child in our home. But for now, we have Kenny with us.
      Dear Lord, my Lord,
Please watch over Kenny. Guide him from the moment his eyes open in the morning to the moment his eyes close in rest at night. Stir up the gifts within him that he might walk in integrity and grow in wisdom. Give him friends who will encourage him in every way and help him to be a strong support in his circle of friends, too. The seeds of salvation, desire of the Holy Spirit and obtaining the joys You have prepared for him have been planted within his heart. Send someone to water these seeds. And someone to pour sunshine on him.
    Lord, I don't ask You enough to bless others. We always ask You to watch over and guide our children when they are away. Seldom do we remember to pray for them when they are within our walls. So, at this time I would like to ask You to pour out a blessing on Kenny: give him teachers who will actually help him and not hinder him. Give him peace on the bus route and guidance from the right drivers, who also require Your hand upon their lives and routes.
      Bless Kenny and prepare his heart to receive all that You have in store for him. GIve him a desire to be filled with Your Holy Spirit, that our youngest son may grow bold and zealous for You. Father, call our son and tender his heart with Your mercies. Holy Spirit, convict our children when they do wrong and teach them to accept responsibility for their actions, whether they have done right or done wrong. And if they do wrong, I would hope that they are strong enough, meek enough, to admit to wrong-doing and make reparations where necessary.
    Strengthen our familial relationships with each other; and with You in the center of our lives. Holy Spirit, give me wisdom, give me words, give me peace. For in Your wisdom I have spokene words that convict a person's heart, and caused my peace to increase that stress becomes less readily available and love, Your love, is all I have in its place.
    Guide our children, Father, in Your Ways, on Your Paths, in Your Word, through their valleys, over their mountains, and across their deeps. May each child walk upright in Your sight and not be found wanting when You measure them. May we, as parents, continue to lead them and guide them in the right direction, until You call us home. Help us to be better examples to those who are watching us live a godly lifestyle.
     In Jesus' Name, His Beautiful, Wonderful, Powerful, Holy Name. Amen.

Justin
Justin
Andrew
Travis
Keith
Seth
Kenny
Danielle
(Nicholas: RIP 2006) in his stead I am adding his other sister Megan, whom I have only met once, so if I get her name wrong, God knows who I am talking about when I pray for her
Phillip
James
Brian
Kenneth

I also pray guidance and deliverance over my Sunday School classes and Youth Group Bible Studies which I have taught in the past. These people, though no longer children, are my privilege to pray for. Many have children of their own now. Some have made unwise choices for their lives and some are still seeking God for themselves.

I would name them here, but I don't want to embarass them here. You know who you are. Come on back to God's house. He and I miss having you here. You will always be welcome,  you will always be loved, you will always be fed the Bread of Life and the given the Living Water to sustain you.

This is your altar call. These are some of our Prayer Warriors. We will pray for you and help you to pray for yourself. Now is the time to return.............

Hello. It's nice to see you again, mdf. Let 's pray.

 

Ya Think?

Cuddin' Jake and I wrote this song over ten years ago. I think he was about 11.

The Color of Worship - White

The color white is defined in Scripture as Purity, Righteousness, Light. White makes known the Holiness of God and encourages the people to prepare to be in His Presence.

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He does judge and make war. Revelation 19:14 And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Revelation 1:14 His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire. White hot. The holiness of God can kill you if you are not prepared to be in His presence. Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Back in Revelation Christ is described as having woolly white, snow white hair. See the connection here? Sin kills; Jesus saves. Sin dies; Jesus lives.

God is saying, "Let's be logical about this. When you and I meet at the altar, I will reveal your sins to you and you can lay them down at My Son's feet; the foot of the cross. His blood will drop into your sinful heart and wash your unrighteousness from you. And My Holy Spirit will fill you and guide you, if you let Him, to the state of holiness which I have prepared for you. Let's talk about this, this subject of sin vs. holiness."

Sin separates us from God. Dying in our sin separates us eternally from God. After death there are no more chances. It is in this life that we have to choose Christ as Savior. It is in this life that we have to make a decision to follow God all the time, not just part of the time. It is in this life that we reach the logical conclusion that only Jesus Christ fulfills all of Bible prophecy in being the ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD. Sin denies God. Sin denies God's Word in all forms. The Word of God is Holy. The Word of God is Living. The Word of God is in written form: The Holy Bible; in physical form: Jesus Christ; in spoken form: preach the gospel of salvation.

Jesus brings us closer to God. Dying in Jesus in this life, we live eternally in His life. Death here is but a whisper that leaves our fragile human bodies and enters the presence of God. Why can we be in God's eternal presence after death? Because Jesus covered our sins here with His own self, and God sees His own Son, our covering/our protection, when we stand in God's presence. Pretty cool, huh?

And the Holy Spirit of God, through our willingness, our desire to draw closer to God, helps us obtain a smidgen of holiness in this life. See, it's still about the power of choice. God can't make you be holy, you have to want to be holy. God can't save you if you don't want to be saved. He loves us enough to let us make our own choices; and His heart weeps for the wrong choices we make, I believe.

I've made too many wrong choices in my life. Unlike former President Clinton, I inhaled. Though God has forgiven my poor choices made in the past, I still will reap what I have sowed into my life and my body. This memory loss thing may very well lead back to those days. I sowed dissension, rebellion and disobedience into my life when I was younger. So, it's only logical that I reap dissension, rebellion and disobedience from my children. BUT GOD got a hold of my life and He won't let me go.

Now, I sow PRAYING FOR MY CHILDREN into their lives. Now, I sow PRAYING WITH MY CHILDREN into their lives. Now, I sow PRAYING FOR EACH OTHER into the lives of my family and friends. Now, I sow DAILY BIBLE STUDY into my life and yours. Now, I sow FAITHFULNESS in tithing into my life and theirs. Now, it's a whole new ball game. And I'm tagging the devil out!