Scripture Promises to Pray Over Your Children

Most parents and grandparents want what is best for their children. There isn’t anything a good mother or earthly father won’t do for their children. God is a good Father. Scripture says, "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! " (Matthew 7:11)

If you listen to the world your future and your children’s futures can seem bleak. God still has plan and it is good! Plans for a blessing, not a curse. Whose report will you believe. Trust the Word. It has the power to turn your children’s lives around! 
 
Example:
Isaiah 54:13 − All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.

I might pray, “Father, You have promised those who belong to You that all our children shall be taught by the Lord. I ask You to reveal Yourself to my children, and grandchildren and all descendants and bring each one into peace with you through Christ Jesus.”

I might decree: "All my children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of my children and grandchildren."

Meditating on God’s promises regarding your children will help to increase your faith and stay focused on God’s promises about your children. Here are some scriptures that I use as springboards for prayer for over my descendants:

• Jeremiah 31:16-17 − “Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they [your children] shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.”​

 

• Jeremiah 32:39 − “I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.”

 

•  Proverbs 11:21 − “…The seed of the righteous shall be delivered.”

 

• Proverbs 14:26 – “In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.”

 

• Psalm 112:1-2 − “…Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.”

 

• Psalm 145:9 − “The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.”

 

• Psalms 102:28 − “The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.”

 

•  Isaiah 44:3 − “…I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.”

 

• Isaiah 49:25 − “…I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.”

 

• Isaiah 59:21 −  “As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever.”

 

• Isaiah 61:8-9 − “…I will make an everlasting covenant with them. Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.”

 

• Isaiah 65:23 − “They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them.”

 

• Acts 16:31-33 − “And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.

 
No matter how they act, don’t stop decreeing God’s word over them. Don’t stop praying for your children until the day you go home to be with the Lord. Even if you don’t see them saved in your lifetime, God can still save them.

Do you have scriptures that you pray over your descendants? Have you seen God honor His word?

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