Part 1 of 3: A few things I pray for my children | DISCERMENT

For a long time now I have prayed certain prayers besides salvation for my children, and now I get to add two more children to my prayers. Have you scrolled through my blog and seen pictures of all of my children- both sets of my birthed children and adopted children? All the boys are so handsome, and my one daughter is so pretty! Just in case, here's a picture.

This picture is a couple years old.

They've all grown since then- current ages are 21, 17, 6, and 4.

#1 Spiritual Discernment  But who can discern their own errors? Psalm 19:12a

Let's face it, we're not always smart people, ahem, well at least I know that my children, myself, and even my husband are not.

All humans have an innate sense of right and wrong and good and evil. But, I pray specifically for spiritual discernment. I want for my children to quickly cut through their thoughts about all things:
Is this of God? Is this of the enemy? Believe it or not... the following is a prayer of the Apostle Paul's for the people of Philippi. How neat is that! Even neater, this is a prayer I can stick my children's name into and pray the same prayer! Here's the exact words in Philippians 1:9-10 (NIV)

And this is my prayer:

that your love may abound more and more

in knowledge and depth of insight, so

that you may be able to discern what

 is best and may be pure and blameless

for the day of Christ, filled

with the fruit of righteousness that

comes through Jesus Christ-

to God be the Glory.

HERE IS THE LINK TO PART #3 | REALNESS

http://herdepressionherhome.blogspot.com/2016/06/part-3-of-3-few-things-i-pray-for-my.html

HERE IS THE LINK TO PART #2 | PROTECTION

http://herdepressionherhome.blogspot.com/2016/06/part-2-few-things-i-pray-for-my.html