A Prayer for My Children by Paula Iaconis

Show me, O Lord, how to bring up the children who have been given to me.
(Judges 13:8)

May my children heed correction, Showing prudence. (Prov. 15:5)

May they heed correction and be honored. (Prov. 13:18)

Let us as a family remember that it is better to have a meal of vegetables where there is love, than a fattened calf with hatred. (Prov.
15:17)

May my children's thoughts be of the pure that are pleasing to You. (Prov. 15:26)

May they live by Your Spirit, oh God. (Zech. 4:6)

May they administer true justice and show mercy and compassion to one Another. (Zech. 7:9-10)

May they each know that a good name is more desirable than riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold. (Prov. 22:1)

May they grow in humility and fear of You Lord, for these bring wealth and honor and life. (Prov. 22:4)

Give me the strength oh God to train up my children in the way they should go, and know that when they are old they will not depart from it. (Prov. 22:6)

May they have pure hearts and speech that is gracious. (Prov. 22:11)

Let them be skilled in their life's work, so that they may serve before kings, not serve before obscure men. (Prov. 22:29)

May they be sons and daughters that honor their father. (Malachi 1:6)

May they each have with You, Lord, a covenant of life and peace, that calls for reverence, that they may revere You and stand in awe of You. (Malachi 2:5)

May there be true instruction found in their mouths. May they walk with You in peace and uprightness, and turn from sin. (Malachi 2:6)

May each of their marriages be to believers. (Malachi 2:11)

May You act as a witness between each child and the partner of their youth, that they may never break faith with their partners. (Malachi
2:14)

And may You, Lord, make them one with their spouses, and in flesh and spirit Yours. (Malachi 2:15)

May they each bring the whole tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in Your house, Lord. May they test You in this, Lord, so that they may see You throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that they will not have room for it all.
(Malachi 3:10)

Let them worship You only, the Lord their God, and serve You only. (Deut. 6:13)

That You would be a shield around them. (Ps. 3:3)

Let them oh God give something to eat to the hungry, something to drink to the thirsty, hospitality to strangers, clothing to the naked, tending to the sick, and visits to the prisoners, that they may take their inheritance from You, God, the kingdom prepared for them since the creation of the world. (Matt. 25:34-36)

And may you command Your angels to guard them in all of their ways. (Ps. 91:11)

I pray this all in Jesus's name, Amen.