A prayer for our children and teens!

How many congregations will unite with us in a prayer for our children and teens?

O heavenly Father of us all, eternal God who made your covenant of grace with us and with our children!

We thank you for the promise in your Word that your Holy Spirit will come to fill and guide not only those who received Jesus Christ as Redeemer, but also is promised to their children and to all the generations of believers and their children still to come.

Hear our prayer, almighty God, for our children and teens.  That they will be lead, guided and taught by your Spirit who reveals to our hearts the truth, the way and the life who is Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Deliver them from temptation and all evil.

Protect them against godless peer pressure and help them to find friendship by living in your Body since they are small and young.

Teach them the dangers of abuse and addiction.

Keep them pure as they discover their sexuality and urges.

Call them to receive the treasure of your Kingdom and the gifts of your Spirit.

Show them the true excitement and adventure to live for their Lord.

Make them hungry for your Word and for the thrill of your Gospel.

Enable them to serve you even though they still are young and not experienced.

Help those children and teens who are neglected, abused or hurt in many ways and deliver them from evil adults, even some parents and teachers and youth leaders, who seek to use them and do not care for their well being!

Provide for the children who are sad, in distress, sick, undergoing treatment, are hungry, living on the streets or are prematurely given the responsibility to head a household.

Father, enable your Church to reach the children in our care with the love of the Lord.

Lord, make all Christian parents aware of their God-given responsibilities and bless them with wisdom, godly discipline, patience, love and compassion.

Jesus Christ our Redeemer, deliver our children from the urge to sin and from foolish choices, wash them in your blood of redemption and keep them pure for the day of your return!

Heavenly Father and Eternal God, bless all schools, centres for further education and training, and universities, that they may be energetic centres of upright learning, originality and creativity, and the search for knowledge and wisdom.

And give to those who teach and to those who learn to find you, our Lord and Saviour, to be the only Way, and the source of all truth and abundant life,

through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.