MARJORIE WINGERT - Prayer Over Our Children | Biblical Inspiration for Parents

Prayer Over Our Children

Do you pray like I do for your child? Hoping and asking the Lord to guide their growth and hear our cries on their behalf? Please join me in praying Scripture over our children by reading a chapter a day from a book of the Bible.

My prayer for you, as it is for me, is that you and your children's lives will be transformed, touched and knit together by the power of the Holy Spirit. ~ Marjorie Wingert, walking by faith and not by sight

"But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." (Isaiah 40:31)

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Hebrews Chapter 12

1/22/2019

“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.” ~Hebrews 12:1 NASB

Prayer Over Our Children

Heavenly Father help my daughter throw off every hindrance and all sin. Let her run with endurance the race You have laid before her. Fix her eyes upon You so that she will not grow weary or faint of heart.
Encourage my daughter through your loving accountability, oh God, allowing her to endure hardship like discipline which comes from a loving parent. Let her not grow discouraged under Your rebuke but ...

Hebrews Chapter 11

12/31/2018

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1 NASB

Prayer Over Our Children

Grant my daughter a sure Hope and a certainty in the unseen. Through her faith oh God, bless her understanding, commend her as righteous, and find her pleasing unto You. I pray that You would give her a faith which seeks You in earnest and obeys in trust. Bless her and her future husband with children, oh Lord, multiplying her descendants in Your holy inheritance. Help her put away what is past and strain forward with faith while she looks towards Your heavenly reward. Prepare a place for her, oh God, and may she be proved faithful when tested. ...

Hebrews Chapter 10

12/23/2018

“. . . let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.” Hebrews 10:22 NIV

Prayer Over Our Children

Heavenly Father, great High Priest, and Spirit of the Living God, make my child holy by the sacrifice of Your body. Oh God, take away her sins and remember not her transgressions. Make her enemies a foot stool before her. Holy Spirit, put Your law in her heart and write it upon her mind. Draw her near to You, oh God, and grant her a sincere heart and the full assurance of faith. Help her to hold fast to Your Hope while You spurn her on to love and good deeds. I pray that You will encourage her and build her up through the faithful gathering of Your people. Oh Lord, help her persevere in doing Your Will so that she may inherit Your promises. May she stand firm and live by faith, not shrinking back, but always believing.

Hebrews Chapter 9

12/12/2018

“. . . how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.” Hebrews 9:14-15 NASB

Prayer Over Our Children

Keep my daughter from useless rituals but cleanse her by the blood of Your perfect sacrifice. Call her to You so that she may receive Your promised eternal inheritance and that she may serve You, the Living God. Purify her, oh God, and take away her sin so that she may know salvation and await Your glorious return. ...

Hebrews Chapter 8

11/26/2018

“This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Hebrews 8:10, NIV

Prayer Over Our Children

Cover my little one with the greater promises of Your covenantal love so that she may be found faultless and pure. Do not turn away from her, oh God, but help her remain faithful to You, placing Your law in her mind and writing it upon her heart. Be her God, oh Lord, and help her to know You. Forgive her of any wickedness and do not remember her sins but wash her clean through Your new covenant. ...

Hebrews Chapter 7

10/31/2018

“Therefore He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them. Such a high priest truly meets our needs – one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.” Hebrews 7:25-26, NIV

Prayer Over Our Children

Bless my daughter, oh Lord, through the inheritance of Your promises. Raise her up from her family line to serve You in deeper, new ways. Set her apart, oh God, from what has previously been weak and useless so that You may draw her close to You through the introduction of Your Greater Hope. Thank You for how You live to intercede for her and for each one of us. May she come to You and may You meet each one of her needs through Your holiness, purity, innocence, preservation from sin, and exalted seat above the heavens.

Hebrews Chapter 6

10/16/2018

“God is not unjust; He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them.” Hebrews 6:10, NIV

Prayer Over Our Children

Grow my daughter in maturity with Your Word beyond just elementary understandings and fill her with light so that she may share in the Holy Spirit, taste in Your heavenly gift, know the goodness of Your Word, and the powers of the coming age. Let her never fall away from You, oh God, and always lead her back to repentance. ...

Hebrews Chapter 5

10/8/2018

“During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, He offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission.” Hebrews 5:7, NIV

Prayer Over Our Children

Draw my child to You in reverent submission, oh Lord, and hear her cries. Call her to do Your good work with a heart of obedience. May You deepen Your Word in her to maturity so that she no longer needs milk but solid food. Oh God, use Your truth constantly in her life so that she may know righteousness and distinguish good from evil. Train her up in the teaching of Your Word, dear Lord, making her an apt student who is quick to learn. ...

Hebrews Chapter 4

9/25/2018

“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12, NIV

A Prayer Over Our Children

Allow my little girl to enter Your rest through her faith and obedience in You. Let your word pierce through her life, spirit, and soul as living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword. Hold her thoughts and attitudes accountable before You, uncovered and laid bare before Your Sight. Oh Lord, help her to hold firmly to the faith she professes. And I pray, oh God, that she may approach Your throne of grace with confidence so that in her times of need, she may receive mercy and find grace.

Hebrews Chapter 3

9/8/2018

“But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called ’Today,’ so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness” Hebrews 3:13, NIV

Prayer Over Our Children

Oh Lord, may my little one share in Your heavenly calling. Fix her thoughts upon You and may she confess Your Name. Be faithful to her, oh God, just as You were to Abraham and Moses. Help her hear Your voice and keep her heart tender to You, never testing or trying. ...