“My prayer for you is . . .”
Have you ever had the blessing of someone praying over you? Really pray for you, not at you, bringing you to the Father from a heart of love and compassion?
What is your prayer for your spouse? For your teen daughter who believes the lies the mirror whispers to her? For your clever son with dyslexia who thinks he’s stupid or for that child who seems so distant?
We encourage others when we pray. We uplift them. And we bring them before the God who created them, who can do far more than we can to touch their hearts.
Let’s intervene on behalf of the people we love most, and let’s give our children the experience of thinking of others through prayer. A prayer written especially for them will be a treasure they can read over again during troubling times in their lives!
Prayer Writing Prompt
This writing prompt can be done together as a family or separately. Adults and children can participate.
- Choose one person or each member of your family to pray for.
- Sit down and think of the person you are writing this prayer for. Get them in your mind. What are their dreams? Where are they tender? Who are they when all the busy-ness is set aside?
- When you have this person firmly in your mind and heart, write your prayer for them. Avoid telling them something. Really bring this person before the Lord and petition Him on their behalf.
- You can read it out loud later as you pray it for your family member, or you can pray it silently. Your choice.
The idea for this prompt was sent to me from Lorri R. Thank you, Lorri!
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