Your legal hands may be tied but your spiritual hands are free!
The following is from notes Pastor Jerry gave us here in Parkland for when we pray for our Kids!
I know it says Kids in the Church but they apply to ALL Kids!
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Assignment!
Praying for the Children of our Church
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: (15) And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
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I. Did you know that God is looking for those who will pray?
1. Eze 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
(This is God doing the seeking!)
II. Did you know that God is always amazed that we won't pray?
1. Isa 59:16 And he saw that [there was] no man, and wondered that [there was] no intercessor:
2. (wondered means = I was amazed! God was amazed! Why won't they pray!?)
III. Did you know that God wants us to pray continually?
1. Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, (7) And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
(We are the Watchmen!)
2. Pray without Ceasing! 1Thessalonians 5:17
IV. DO NOT Assume Any of these Kids are Saved!
1. First of all pray for their Salvation!
2. If you know they are Saved, pray that they stay Saved.
3. If the Holy Spirit tells you they are Prodigals then Pray them back home to Jesus!
V. We are also praying to:
1. Stand in the Gap for them. Eze 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
2. Make up hedges of protection around them. Eze 22:30 & Eze 13:5
3. Put up Shields and Bucklers around them. Psa 91:4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
4. Put up Fortress Walls around them. Psa 18:2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
5. Put up Walls of Fire around them because God Loves Them! Zec 2:5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
6. Put Angels around about them to deliver them from evil. Psa 34:7 The angels of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and deliverers them.
7. Pray God will protect them from Evil. John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
8. Cover them in the Blood of the Lamb. Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Heb 12:24; 1Pe 1:2; Rev 1:5; Rev 7:14
9. Pray to repair the breach in their Walls, to restore their Paths and to rebuild their Foundations. Isa 58:12 And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
10. Pray to Loose the bands of wickedness in their lives. Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
11. Pray to undo the heavy burdens in their lives. Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
12. Pray that they be set free from any oppression. Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
13. Pray to break every yoke of bondage in their lives. Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
14. Bind the principality and powers with chains and fetters. Psa 149:8 To bind their kings (principalities) with chains, and their nobles (powers) with fetters of iron; Psa (9) To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints (us). Praise ye the LORD.
15. Smite the principality and powers with blindness. 2Ki 6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
VI. Remember when Jesus prayed with Passion!
1. Heb 5:6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
