PARENTING-PRAYER
Common sense
tells us that the highest priority must be given to prayer if we hope to
enhance our children’s spiritual development… Effective intercession for our
children requires that we pray with the mind engaged, in detail, with
appropriate earnestness, and that both parents should often pray for their
children together.
Disciplines of a Godly Family, Crossway
Books, 2004, p. 60.
[The] most
important duty, respecting both the temporal and spiritual good of your
children, is fervent supplication to God for them. Without this all the rest will be
ineffectual. Means are unavailing unless
the Lord blesses them. The Throne of
Grace is to be earnestly implored that your efforts to bring up your children
for God may be crowned with success.
A.W. Pink
A Word to Parents.
What a mercy
was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as
in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
John Flavel
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 43.
Parents, if
you love your children, do all that lies within your power to train them to
have a habit of prayer. Show them how to begin. Tell them what to say.
Encourage them to persevere. Remind them that if they become careless and slack
about it…. Believe me, if you never hear your children
pray yourself, you are much to blame.
J.C. Ryle
The Duties of Parents.