For generations, moms and dads have prayed faithfully for their kids. And prayer has never been more important than right now!

When you stop to pray for your child, let me offer you a creative idea. Look down the road and into the future, and ask God to prepare your child for what’s ahead. If your son is twelve now, pray for what he’ll become at seventeen. If your daughter is fifteen, pray grace over her life at twenty-one.

Pray that her relationship with mom and dad will stay intact. Then pray that your son’s relationship with God would become real to him, that he would see God as the solution, and not the problem.

There’s no better investment of your time and energy than calling upon God for His blessing.

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