For us at Calvary Road Christian School, we have purposed ourselves to raise academic scholars who will seek God’s will for their lives. This is simple…and challenging. Children are free agents, as we all are. They can make good and bad decisions, as we all do. It is very difficult, to say the least, when we see the consequences of those bad decisions unfolding in their lives.
So what can parents do? First and foremost, they can seek divine intervention through the power of prayer to our Creator God. We offer these pray points below that parents can embrace as they navigate their parenting experience:
- Pray that they will come to know Christ as Savior early in life (Psalm 63:1; II Timothy 3:15)
- Pray that they will have a hatred for sin (Psalm 91:10)
- Pray that they will be caught when guilty – YES…better to be caught and held to account than to escape accountability, only to continue down that dark road (Psalm 119:71)
- Pray that they will be protected from the evil one in each area of their lives: spiritual, emotional, and physical (John 17:15)
- Pray that they will have a responsible attitude in all of their interpersonal relationships (Daniel 6:3)
- Pray that they will respect those in authority over them (Romans 13:1)
- Pray that they will desire the right kinds of friends and be protected from the wrong “friends”. (Proverbs 1:10-11)
- Pray that they will be kept from the wrong mate and saved for the right one. (II Corinthians 6:14-17)
- Pray that they, as well as those they marry, will be kept pure until marriage. (I Corinthians 6:10-20)
- Pray that they will learn to totally submit to God and actively resist Satan in all circumstances. (James 4:7)
- Pray that they will be single-hearted, willing to be sold out to Jesus Christ. (Romans 12:1-2)
- Pray that they will be hedged in so they cannot find their way to wrong people or wrong places and that the wrong people cannot find their way to them. (Hosea 2:6)
REMEMBER: Prayer is the slender thread the moves the mighty arm of omnipotence.
