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PRAYING FOR MY CHILDREN’S SALVATION

For this blog I would like to turn our attention on praying for our children’s salvation.  I have addressed this on previous occasions but because it is so important I need to keep revisiting it.  Regardless of how successful our children maybe in life if they are not saved then they have nothing.  Their happiness and success is temporary.  We want to know that they have something that will last forever.  Our salvation opens the door to a lot of spiritual blessings.  They may be our children but they do not automatically become God’s children unless they have become born again.  It is only when we are born again that we become “sons and daughters” of God.  Not by osmosis.
As I pointed out in previous posts the general idea of the term Salvation is safety, deliverance, ease and soundness.  In the New Testament salvation is regarded almost exclusively as deliverance from the power and dominion of sin.

This fact is supported by the word of God in Mathew 1:21 –And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Acts 4:12- Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Hebrews 5:9- And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.

The bible also tells us in John 14:6 –Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
 Regardless of how great we see our children, their basic nature is one of sin

Romans 3:23 supports this by saying: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Salvation is freely offered to all men but is conditioned upon repentance and faith in God. As we pray for their salvation please make sure that we share the word of God with them.

 Romans 10:14 -How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed?  and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?  and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Father, I thank you that you so loved {insert name} that you gave your only Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  I thank you God that you promise in your word that If we confess our sins, You are faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  Father I thank you for (insert name) this/these gifts that you have blessed me with.  I pray for (insert name) salvation, knowing that although you created them, they are not yet your son or daughter.  I pray that his/her/their heart will be receptive the next time that he/she/they hear your word, (from me or someone else) and will want to readily receive you as their Lord and Savior.

If your children are saved please pray that they will remain faithful and continue to walk according to the word of God.  If they are saved but have backslidden then you can focus your prayer for their return to the passion and love they first had.

In His Presence,

Vilma

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