I read somewhere a couple of days ago that “people complain about this generation, but they forget who raised it”. I thought, ouch! Now ain’t that the truth. So, instead of complaining, what do we do. I came across a “31 Days of Praying for your children” group on Facebook that helped me. My husband and I were just talking about how we want our children to learn to be prayerful in everything, not just when they urgently need God or are praying over a meal. We want them to seek God in everything. So, we must obviously be the example. And we must also remember to pray for our children.
Here are a few short prayers from the Facebook group I found just to get you headed in the right direction. Because I know what it is to become redundant in my prayer time. I feel God is like, ” Okay woman, you just said the same thing 5 times! I hear you.” 
So, enjoy your time of praying over your children’s lives and over the lives of the children in this generation.
31 Days of Praying for your Children
Day 1 – Lord, let salvation spring up within my children, that they may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. (Isaiah 45:8, 2 Timothy 2:10)
Day 2 – I pray that they may grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 3:18)
Day 3 – Grant, Lord, that my children may learn to live a life of love, through the Spirit who dwells in them. (Ephesians 5:2; Galatians 5:22)
Day 4 – May integrity and honesty by their virtue and their protection. (Psalm 25:21)
Day 5 – Father, help my children not to be like many others around them, but let them be alert and self-controlled in all they do. (1 Thes. 5:6)
Day 6 – May my children grow to find Your Word more precious than gold, than much pure gold; and sweeter than honey from the comb. (Psalm 19:10)
Day 7 – God, help my children to love justice as You do and to act justly in all they do. (Psalm 11:7, Micah 6:8)
Day 8 – May my children always be merciful, just as their Father is merciful. (Luke 6:36
Day 9 – Father, grant that my children may show proper respect to everyone as Your Word commands. (1 Peter 2:17a)
Day 10 – Help my children develop their identity in Christ that is rooted in the realization that they are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2:10)
Day 11 – Let love and faithfulness never leave my children, but bind these twin virtues around their necks and write them on the tablet of their hearts. (Proverbs 3:3)
Day 12 – Lord, may my children always be strong and courageous in their character and in their actions. (Deuteronomy 31:6)
Day 13 – Create in them a pure heart, O God; and let their purity of heart be shown in their actions. (Psalm 51:10)
Day 14 – Lord, may my children always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else. (1 Thes. 5:15)
Day 15 – Grant that my children may be generous and willing to share and so lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age.
(1 Tim. 6:18-19).
Day 16 – Father, let my children make every effort to do what leads to peace. (Romans 14:19)
Day 17 – May my children be filled with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. (1 Thes. 1:6)
Day 18 – Lord, teach my children perseverance in all they do, and help them especially to run with perseverance the race marked out for them. (Hebrews 12:1)
Day 19 – God, please cultivate in my children the ability to show true humility toward all. (Titus 3:2)
Day 20 – Lord, please clothe my children with the virtue of compassion. (Colossians 3:12)
Day 21 – Grant that my children may learn responsibility, for each one should carry his own load. (Galatians 6:5)
Day 22 – Father, teach my chldren the secret of being content in any and every situation. . . through Him who gives them strength. (Phil. 4:12-13)
Day 23 – I pray that faith will find root and grow in my children’s hearts, that by faith they may gain what has been promised to them. (Luke 17:5-6, Hebrews 11:1-40)
Day 24 – God, please help my children develop servant hearts, that they may serve wholeheartedly, ‘as to the Lord, and not to men.’ (Eph. 6:7)
Day 25 – May the God of hope grant that my children may overflow with hope and hopefulness by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Hebrews 12:1)
Day 26 – Teach my children, Lord, to value work and to work hard at everything they do, as working for the Lord, not for men. (Colossians 3:23)
Day 27 – Lord, please instill in my children a soul that followeth hard after thee, a heart that clings passionately to You. (Psalm 63:8)
Day 28 – Father, I pray that my children may develop self-discipline, that they may acquire a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair. (Proverbs 1:3)
Day 29 Grant, Lord, that my children’s lives may be marked by prayerfulness, that they may learn to pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. (Ephesians 6:18)
Day 30 – Help my children to live lives that are always overflowing with thankfulness, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Col. 2:7, Ephesians 5:20)
Day 31 – Lord, please help my children to develop a heart for missions, a desire to see Your glory (declared) among the nations, Your marvelous deeds among all peoples. (Psalm 96:3)
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Hi Friends,
Our new plan is to aim for December of this year or early next year so that all four Gore’s can make it back. That would be awesome. We will continue raising funds until then because we are still short. All that has been raised so far will go towards Romon and Jalynne’s travelling and living expenses for the month of August in the states.
