Proverbs 4

“Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.” Proverbs 4:23, (NASV)
 
Oh Lord, help my children listen to instruction. Give them close attention so they may receive sound learning. With all their hearts, let them lay hold of Your works so they may keep Your commandments and live. Yet bless them with wisdom and understanding, oh God. DO not forget them but may they learn to love wisdom. In turn, may wisdom protect and watch over them with honor and exaltation. I pray they will embrace and esteem wisdom above all other pursuits, crowning their heads in splendor. Oh God, guide my children in the ways of wisdom and lead them on straight paths with unhampered and firm steps. Help them to hold onto instruction, guarding it with their lives. I plead they will not walk in the way of evil men nor set foot on the path of evil. But let them turn from it, avoiding its wicked grasp. Make righteousness their first gleam of dawn, I plead, shining bright into the fullness of day. Oh Lord, may my children carefully listen to wisdom, and hold it close. Above all else, guard their hearts by putting perversity and corrupt talk from their mouths, and fixing their eyes upon You. Keep them from swerving to the right or to the left but help them stay on level ground, away from evil.