May They Desire You

My greatest prayer is that these children would desire you and seek you.  Behaviors will fall into place as hearts settle into the right place with you.

May they love you.  May they be overwhelmed by the love you have for them and may they desire to give you their whole lives.

Shining Brightly

A morning with the sun reflecting brightly off the bus - made me think wouldn't it be awesome if those kids with Christ at their center shone like that all day long and brought light & joy to their teachers & classmates?  Lord, may your children be set apart - may their actions and attitudes be pointing the way to you & be making their world a better place.

Matthew 5:16  "...let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."

Perspective

I pray today for proper perspective - not that they are the most important person in the world, but that they are their own best teacher.  They will turn out to be what they see themselves as.  May they aspire to be kind, nice, and influential for good, rather than rich, powerful, and popular.  May they not see their world as unfair, but instead decide how to live in light of their circumstances.

Treating Others Well

May each of these children I love seek to treat people well out of a sense that that is what is right, and not our of a selfish desire for popularity.

May they understand that true beauty and real character comes from how your are on the inside, not how you look on the outside.

Choosing Behaviors

Lord, today I pray that the things our children choose to imitate from their friends would be the pure, innocent, kind, lovely, excellent things.  May they choose to reject for themselves the ugly, unkind, lazy, rude or coarse things.  I pray you would come to mind as they choose, and if they don't know you, then may the desire for good lead them to you.

Philippians 4:8