What I'm thinking about this morning...

I find it so important to be praying for our children. I am trying to instill the importance of prayer with my children and they love to pray.. many times we all pray because they both have things on their hearts. We have a carpool and it's funny..when it's my week to drive one of the five kiddos always chimes in telling me "We need to pray"! I love that!

Sunday night we had a prayer meeting for Orphan Sunday. Let me paint a picture for you...The adults were sitting in a chairs in a circle and in the middle of that circle were about thirteen children. They were each given a name of a child at the Redeemer House Orphanage in Uganda and one by one they lifted that child in prayer. Oh my goodness it brought tears to my eyes.

And then today which is what spurred this post. As I dropped off the kids this morning some very dear friends were in their car praying for their child before school. Once again...this gal was crying!

So the moral of this post..Please pray for your children. Train them up in the ways of the Lord. As parents we want the very best for them. What a better gift to give your child than training them up in the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7, 18


These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up....Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,

Ephesians 6:4


Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Matthew 19:14


Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."


1 Timothy 4:12


Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.