第一天 成为祷告的父母

为自己祷告

主啊，我要完全顺服你。我知道照你心意养育孩子是一件我本能所不及的事，我知道我需要你帮助我。我要与你同工，并亲自蒙受你的恩赐：即智慧、洞察力、启示与引导。我也需要你的力量、忍耐及你丰盛的慈爱涌流贯穿我，教导我如何以你爱的方式去爱人。在我需要医治、拯救、改变、成长、补足之处，我恳求你在我的里面动工。帮助我能公义、正直地活在你面前。将你的法则指教我，使我能顺服你的诫命，行你眼中所喜悦的事情。愿你圣灵的荣美能清楚显明在我里面，使我成为一个敬虔的榜样。赐我必备的技巧知道如何沟通、教导、并抚育孩子，使我能成为合你心意的父母。教导我如何祷告，并真正为这孩子的生命代求。主啊，你在圣经中说："你们祷告，无论求什么，只要信，就必得着。"(太 21:22)我奉耶稣的名祈求你增添我的信心，使我相信你在我心中所放入的一切代祷事项，都与这个孩子有密切的关系。

Lord, I submit myself to you. I realize the parenting a child in the way You would have me to is beyond my human abilities. I know I need You to help me. I want to partner with You and partake of Your gifts of wisdom, discernment, revelation, and guidance. I also need Your strength and patience, along with a generous portion of Your love flowing through me. Teach me how to love the way You love. Where I need to be healed, delivered, changed, matured, or made whole, I invite You to do that in me. Help me to walk in righteousness and integrity before You. Teach me Your ways, enable me to obey Your commandments and do only what is pleasing in Your sight. May the beauty of Your Spirit be so evident in me that I will be godly role model. Give me the communication, teaching, and nurturing skills that I must have. Make me the parent You want me to be and teach me how to pray and truly intercede for the life of this child. Lord, You said in Your Word, "Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive" (Matthew 21:22). In Jesus' name I ask that you will increase my faith to believe for all the things You've put on my heart to pray for concerning this child. 

节选自“如何为你的孩子祷告" 一书第一章