12 Prayers for your child’s bedroom when they are in Spiritual Warfare.

I began praying for my children in the midnight hour since they were just about three and seven years old. Not because I was trying to just do the “Christian Mom” thing with bedtime prayers; Nope… this was not the case.

 

I was on a Mission.

 

I was battling through a war zone. Throughout prayer I would see myself running through what looked like darkness following me with my young children strapped in between my arms frail and lifeless at some points. It was a mission I dreaded some days yet a mission I was proud to be on other days.

 

The grief and pain they were experiencing during the divorce was bringing on confusion and every emotion a child would feel during a divorce. Which also included them experiencing their father living with a pregnant girlfriend immediately.

 

They were in a pain that they had no clue how to identify, let alone handle. This is where the enemy was working most at. I could see them sway back and forth daily of what to believe, who to depend on, how to react when they left to visit a new home.

 

It was heartbreaking as a mom but even more importantly, it was a time to war. Time to war that my children would not allow those feelings become who they are. Confused, doubtful, angry, resentful, and unstable.

 

There were moments I would be in my own prayer closet crying to the Lord of what I was bearing through as a recent single woman and mother but suddenly I would hear His voice to say, “Now get up, go and war for your children!”

 

How can I war for my children when I am in pain?

 

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen

Ephesians 3:14-21

 

What I learned was that is was not me, the hurting wife and mother that was getting up to war, it was the wife and mother that was praying with the holy spirit that was rising up during prayer to go war.

 

When we seek God to answer our prayers to bring the father of our children to salvation, to complete forgiveness in our hearts for pain and trauma, and as we continue to pray for generational curses and repetitiveness to be broken, you will hear the voice of the Lord to lead you of what to do next.

 

My assignment given to me by the Lord as I sought Him with a heart of burden. He handed me the weapon…..authority in prayer.

 

Prayer with a mission. A mission to war and to win the battle after battle.

 

It has now been ten years since that time the Lord was urging me to rise up in the midnight hour to pray over my children but my time at the foot of their bed in the night has not changed.

 

The battles continues, not because I couldn’t win or that I didn’t complete the task correctly but because ……

Our children are growing. Growing comes with many stages, changes, hardships, blissful moments, and life defining moments. This means we need to stay alert in every season of our children’s lives and willing to stand in the gap for them.

 

For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in Light. For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,

Colossians 1:9-13

 

Spiritual warfare is real. The enemy is here to steal, kill, and destroy. To confine our children with fears. Fear that their parents don’t love them enough or fear of the dark. With confusion; confusion of who they are and what they are supposed to be. With depression and anxiety over test grades and being accepted in school. All this and whatever more to take our children’s joy. A child without joy and security is full throttle destruction and that is exactly what the enemy wants.

 

When he tries to sneak into your child’s room to roam with devices against your child, you be there first. Have him catch you praying, warring, and ready to fight!

 

Through the years, here are twelve prayers I have experienced to see that is needed to be prayed for. It is important to pray at the root of situations, not what the situation may look like at the surface.

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12 Prayers for your child’s bedroom while they are in Spiritual Warfare.

Faith:

Pray that your child’s faith will continuously grow. That they fall in love with Jesus Christ and find complete freedom in Him. May they desire to know the Lord with all their hearts, mind, and soul. Pray for their salvation and that they stay strong in it.

 

Their gifts and calling:

This is where you need to get serious. Pray the Lord opens their spiritual eyes and ears. To give them discernment and mentorship to bring their spiritual gifts and calling to the forefront. Their spiritual gift is what needs to go forward to the next generation.

 

School:

Prayer in this area is not just for your child but also for the teachers, the school administrators, and the school board that makes up the decisions for your child’s future learning. Pray for safety of the school grounds and for every person on the school grounds. If homeschooling your child, pray the Lord gives you wisdom of how to counsel, teach, and be an example of great leadership to your child.

 

Relationship with you as their parent:

This prayer is going to be different for each child so it is important you allow the holy spirit to lead you in this area. God knows what you as a parent needs and what your child needs so this prayer through the spirit will be specific and anointed. Also allow this as a time to pray for yourself as their parent. All God to reveal to you where you can gain wisdom and insight of how to gracefully parent.

 

Fear:

Fear comes in many forms. It can be subtle and even deceive your own child that it is them creating the fear, not the enemy after them to fear them from what God has called them to be; which is to be whole and free! Pray the spirit of fear can not and will not reside within your child. That fear is not welcomed in their minds, spirit, relationships, or to keep them away from the Lord.

 

Generational Curses:

Get ready to fight the biggest battle you have ever fought when you pray for generational curses. You are not just fighting something that your child is suddenly going through, you are coming up against something that has probably been lingering from generation to generation many years. You are fighting from the past to prevent it happening to the future. Just imagine how much this angers the enemy during warfare. Stand firm with the word of God and fight!

 

Their vision of Marriage:

Pray that your children see marriage as a union God created for us. That marriage is Christ centered and to be filled with unconditional love, just as Christ loved the church. Pray your sons grows up to love a woman of God and your daughter one day finds a man of God that respects her and adores her.

 

Relationships:

Pray the Lord blesses them with relationships that are godly, in good favor, and that brings joy to them. May they be free from any relationships that will try to tear them down as a person or in their faith. Also be sure to pray that they are a blessing to others just as much as we desire them to have people be a blessing to them.

 

Depression/Anxiety:

Unfortunately depression and anxiety has become an epidemic. Not that I believe this is a trend that people create upon themselves. Absolutely not! I personally know how real these things are and I would never want any my children to endure either of these. The enemy is attacking this generation greatly in this area because it tears down the minds to grasp and hold to truth of who we are and who created us. It leads to confusion, doubt, lack of confidence. Pray depression and anxiety has no opportunity to touch your children or your children’s children.

 

Their vision of adulthood: 

This prayer can include many areas for your child. So once, again allow the spirit to lead you. Take your heart to the Lord of what you hope for your child to become. Pray they rise up with boldness, gain integrity, desire wisdom and understanding. Pray that they chase their dreams and passions but never put that before God. That they are brave and righteous but not in their own sight. May every step they take be led by the Lord.

 

Their pursuit for joy:

Pray their pursuit of joy is not to be a self made joy but may they open their hearts and minds to pursue the only true joy of our lives; Jesus Christ. May they realize that joy comes from peace and the only true peace we have in life is from the Lord. I pray each our children lean on Jesus Christ for their happiness and not on man.

 

Their prayer life:

Pray your children develop a intimate relationship with God. That they desire to come in union with Him daily through prayer. May they seek God for every plan and next step in their lives. May prayer become an important part of their life. Pray that your child desires to learn more about God through the act of fasting and prayer. This is where they will develop their own warrior attitude against the enemy. This is where they will win battles just like you!

In Jesus Name, Amen.

Most important thing to remember when praying for your child(ren) is to first be led by the spirit. The holy spirit is what will give you utterances of what you ought to pray for when you don’t know. The Lord knows greater than us of what our children are bearing through. The words coming off of your lips may surprise you when you are praying through the spirit but through the spirit, it is what is most needed. Do not be ashamed of what you are led to pray for. Be proud that you took a stand to fight for your child and their future, and the future generations!