Commiting to pray for your children – A year of prayer 2011

I'm linking up with Brooke over at A Life in Need of Change for a year of prayer for my sons.  She wrote a prayer for her children last year and is continuing it this year.  She has called us Moms to join her in praying for your own children every day in 2011.  I admit I don't do this enough.  I have recently followed The MOB (Moms of Boys) Society and Warrior of Prayer - Praying the Word for Boys on Facebook.  Brooke is a part of those groups.  I have enjoyed seeing a prayer in my FB feed every day to pray over my boys.  You can apply them to girls or both as well.  It's been a great way to start the year.  I love the prayer she wrote and am going to commit to praying it over my boys every day this year. 

"Lord, You alone change hearts of stone, to hearts of flesh. Place Your Spirit within my children and cause them to walk in Your statutes and to be careful to obey Your rules. For You know the plans You have for them; plans to prosper them and not to harm them, to give them a future and a hope. Let them fear You Lord, and thus have a foundation for wisdom and a heart for instruction. Let them receive wisdom and incline their hearts to understanding. Help them not to lean on their own limited understanding, but in all their ways to acknowledge You so that their paths will be straight. Protect them from walking in the counsel of the wicked and standing in the way of sinners, but lead them to delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on it day and night. May they abide in the shadow of the Almighty and not fear the terror by night. May they walk by the Spirit and not gratify the desires of the flesh. Instead, may they be filled with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. May their minds and thoughts be fixed on whatever is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, anything worthy of praise. May they not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewal of their minds. May they discern the good, acceptable and perfect will of God. May their love be genuine. May they abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. May they love one another with brotherly affection, outdoing one another in honor. May they do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than themselves. May they lie down and sleep in peace; for You alone, O Lord, make them to dwell in safety. Bless them Lord, and keep them, and make Your face shine upon them…and be gracious to them."

 You can join us by praying this prayer or writing one of your own.  If you want to join, you can link up on her post here.