Prayer is work. It’s a delight, and it is a relationship, but it is also a discipline that we must make time for every day. Praying effectively for your children is the topic of our Focus on the Family Broadcast “Praying Scripture Over Your Child’s Life,” one of our “Best of ...
Printable Scripture Cards{these are intended for scripture memory but also work great as prayer cards} This idea I saw on Pinterest: Trace and cut out each child’s handprint. Write their life {or yearly | monthly} scripture on it. Tuck in your bible as a way to pray for them each mor...
Scripture verses and blank lines for you to write prayers that are specific and personal to you and your family. Let this lovely keepsake be a powerful reminder of how God works through praying mothers, and how covering your children in prayer will give you peace for every aspect of their ...
Home>>Scripture Prayers>> Praying For The Nations All nations around the world are included in this prayer. Or you can pray for an individual nation such as "the nation of ___." I had never really thought about praying for the nations, until I became a prayer leader. But this is a ...
A Scripture comes to mind (the same one from my prayer for your sister two days ago … The Voice translation, doesn’t beat around the bush … God’s magnificence in his creation is right there before their eyes: 19 These people are not ignorant about what can be known of God, ...
She teaches how to pray effectively with others, how to prepare for the spiritual battles that swirl when prayer is on the move, how to persist in prayer in the face of hopelessness and despair, and how to us...
“Ah, at last a fit companion! Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh,” Adam exults. Though not recorded in the scripture, I figure Adam then wiggled all over just like my dog, Elijah. The best-friends-forever have been inseparable – wrestling, play fighting, swimming, fetching, and ...
Our conferences are at their best when they invigorate congregational worship, strengthen preaching, enhance youth ministries, and cultivate new faith communities while they also lead congregations to dig water wells, work with at-risk children, confront racism, and advocate for immigration reform. ...
our many hungers and concerns – our budget, our new addition, the middle East, global warming, the economy, the droughts, the poor, those in prison, those who mourn, the sick and lonely, the persecuted and enslaved – Lord, hear our prayer – and don’t forget the little children!
Well, in Greek, the word for Father ispater. We are apatria, family, named after thepater, Father. Scripture often calls us the children of God (1 John 3:1-2; John 1:11-12). We are part of God’s family. So from verses 14 and 15, Paul is praying to the Father for the fam...