God knows our hearts - "If we had forgotten the name
of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not
God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?"
(Psalm 44:20-21) God, You know my children's hearts. You know
their secrets and the hidden things that I will never know. Father,
guide my children in the secret places of their hearts. Shine
You light in their hearts - and drive away any darkness. Help
my children to live their lives with the knowledge that You know
their hearts.
God purifies our hearts by faith - "God, who know the
heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit
to them, just as he did to us. He made no distinction between
us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith." (Acts
15:8-9) God, I pray that You would help my children to accept
Christ as their Saviour and to grow in You. Please remove anything
that stands in the way of their salvation. And I thank You that
You will accept them by giving them Your Holy Spirit. God, purify
their hearts by faith.
God searches our hearts - "I the Lord search the heart
and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve." (Jeremiah 17:10) God,
search my children's hearts and examine their minds. Lead them
in the way where their conduct will be pleasing to You. Thank
You, God that You will reward my children's deeds of obedience.
And even more, God, thank You that You put it in their hearts
to want to do good.
God tests our hearts - "Remember how the Lord your God
led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble
you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart,
whether or not you would keep his commands." (Deuteronomy
8:2) God, I pray that You would test my children's hearts and
that You would help them to know that You are so interested in
what's in their hearts. I pray that You would give my children
the heart to obey You completely.
God hardens/softens hearts - "Then the Lord said to
Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the
hearts of his officials so that I may perform these miraculous
signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and
grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how
I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I
am the Lord." (Exodus 10:1-2) God, I know that You hardened
Pharaoh's heart so You could reveal Yourself to Your people and
the unbelieving Egyptians. And I know that Your plans for my
children to glorify You are for above anything I can even imagine.
Yet I pray, God, that You will keep my children's hearts soft
toward You. Protect them from hardening their hearts.
God writes His law on our hearts - "'This is the covenant
I will make with the house of Israel after that time,' declares
the Lord, 'I will put my law in their minds and write it on their
hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.'"
(Jeremiah 31:33) God, I pray that You would make my children's
hearts to be tablets that have your Word written on them. Lord,
help them to not only know Your Word, but also to have it inscribed
deeply within them.
God puts His Spirit in our hearts - "Now it is God who
makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set
his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts
as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come." (2 Corinthians
1:21-22) God, thank You that You are not a God who is far off,
but You are up close and personal. I thank You that as my children
believe in the message of Jesus' death and resurrection, You
put Your Spirit in their hearts. I pray for my children that
they will be sensitive to the Spirit's prompting within their
hearts.
God pours out His love in our hearts - "And hope does
not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our
hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." (Romans
5:5) God, I pray that You would fill my children with the hope
that does not disappoint. I pray that You would pour out Your
love into their hearts by Your Holy Spirit.
God gives us hearts to know Him - "I will give them
a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people,
and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all
their heart." (Jeremiah 24:7) God, I pray that You would
give my children hearts to know You. I pray that my children
will be Your people and that You will be their God. I pray that
they will turn to You with all their hearts.
God gives an undivided heart - "I will give them an
undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from
them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. then
they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They
will be my people, and I will be their God." (Ezekiel 11:19-20)
God, I pray that You will give my children undivided hearts and
put a new spirit in them. Remove from them any hardness of heart,
and instead give them soft hearts. Help them to follow your decrees
and be careful to keep your laws. Let them be Your people, and
be their God.
Train a child in the way he should
go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6
Fix these words of mine in your hearts
and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on
your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them
when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you
lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 11:18-19
"God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. Do not be ashamed then of testifying to our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel in the power of God." - 2 Timothy 1:7,8
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