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    31 Days of Prayer for My Child: A Parent's Guide
    31 Days of Prayer for My Child: A Parent's Guide
    31 Days of Prayer for My Child: A Parent's Guide
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    31 Days of Prayer for My Child: A Parent's Guide

    By Susan Alexander Yates and Allison Yates Gaskins

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    Between sibling rivalry, keeping children safe, and teaching their kids about Jesus, sometimes parents just want to scream for help!

    Well, help is here. Authors Susan Alexander Yates and daughter, Allison Yates Gaskins, are mothers themselves and know firsthand the worrisome responsibilities of child-rearing. As parents, they also know the importance of praying for and with their children, whether or not they know how or where to begin. With all this in mind, Yates and Gaskins have creatively written a simple book that guides parents through thirty-one prayers about down-to-earth issues they face with their children. Organized by day or topic, this book makes it easy for parents to tell God how they're feeling and to ask for his guidance in their lives and the lives of their children.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    ISBN9781441244178
    31 Days of Prayer for My Child: A Parent's Guide

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      31 Days of Prayer for My Child - Susan Alexander Yates

      © 2004 by Susan Alexander Yates and Allison Yates Gaskins

      Published by Baker Books

      a division of Baker Publishing Group

      P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

      www.bakerbooks.com

      Ebook edition created 2013

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

      ISBN 978-1-4412-4417-8

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

      Scripture is taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      To our

      Thursday morning girlfriends in McLean, Virginia

      and our

      Wednesday morning girlfriends in Ligonier, Pennsylvania:

      Your friendship and partnership have brought

      immeasurable joy to our journeys.

      Your lives speak Proverbs 25:11 to us.

      Thank you.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      To Callie, Will Jr., Tucker, Sylvia, Tobin, and all who follow in this newest generation—we promise to keep praying! We love you!

      To our husbands, John and Will; thanks for being the number one men in our lives!

      To Vicki Crumpton, many thanks for your partnership and excellent editing. And thanks to all of the team at Baker Books. You all do great work!

      How to Use This Book

      As parents of young children we know we need to pray, but we are often so overwhelmed with our children’s needs (and our own) that we don’t know where or how to begin.

      This book will help you!

      We have structured these prayers in a format that loosely follows David’s prayers in the Psalms. They begin with a statement telling God this is how I’m feeling about my child and where I am in mothering. Then they continue by affirming who we know God to be and by bringing a specific need to God in prayer. You may notice as you read these prayers that the opening paragraph expresses a personal sentiment that you may not always feel. That is okay! Feel free to express your own sentiments to God. As you move into the main body of the prayer you will find that it is designed to help you pray in harmony with various promises that God has given us in Scripture. If the prayer for the day doesn’t seem to fit your situation, you might want to skip to another day using a prayer that expresses your current concern.

      Our goal in this project is not for you to merely repeat formatted prayers but to begin the habit of speaking to God about your specific needs on a daily basis. Intercession (praying for others) is a very personal journey! In addition, you will find that although most of these prayers are for your child, some pertain more directly to you, the mother. We absolutely must pray for ourselves. Even Jesus did!

      There are two simple ways to use this book.

      You can use it as a daily prayer for your child and yourself by matching each prayer to the day’s date (pray Day 1 on the first of the month, etc.). With this method you’ll be able to cultivate the habit of regular daily prayer for your child and in the process experience the joy of a regular time to let God himself encourage you. By praying in this way, you will receive the benefit of exploring issues that might not have occurred to you.

      Second, you’ll note that each prayer has a particular topic, so if you prefer, you can go directly to the topic best expressing your concern and pray that specific prayer. Prayers are listed by topic in the table of contents.

      The inspiration for this book comes from Susan’s book And Then I Had Kids: Encouragement for Mothers of Young Children. That book deals with the challenges we face as we raise our young children. In it you will find practical guidance in handling many of the issues you will be praying about in this book. The intent is for this book of prayers to be a companion to the larger book. Additional help is also available in John and Susan’s book Character Matters! Raising Kids with Values That Last.

      Further information about these two books and other helpful resources can be found in appendix 3.

      In the prayers we have tried to balance using he or she (son or daughter). We felt that using he/she would detract so we have chosen one or the other to use in each prayer. Please adjust the gender to suit your needs.

      After each day’s prayer you will find a series of activities that can personalize and deepen your prayer time. Let the printed prayer be a basis for creating your own prayer for your child and write it out in the space provided. When you use the book next month, you’ll be encouraged to see how God has answered your prayer. List one character trait of God that has been brought to your mind by the prayer or

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