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    The Daniel Prayer for Parents: Praying Favor, Protection, and Blessing Over Your Children
    The Daniel Prayer for Parents: Praying Favor, Protection, and Blessing Over Your Children
    The Daniel Prayer for Parents: Praying Favor, Protection, and Blessing Over Your Children
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    The Daniel Prayer for Parents: Praying Favor, Protection, and Blessing Over Your Children

    By George Sawyer

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    Never has a generation been as assaulted and abused, both inside and out of the womb, as today’s youth. We must recognize and respond to this satanic assault with an even greater intensity and devotion. We must pray for this chosen generation.
    The Daniel Prayer for Parents draws from the biblical account of Daniel and his fellow captives as they not only survived but also thrived in an environment that could not have been more antagonistic. Daniel’s secrets to success will teach parents how to pray for their children as they walk through the challenging developmental years of life. Parents will learn key principles to pray effectively for their children to have:
    • GOOD HEALTH
    • EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
    • A RESOLVE TO SERVE GOD
    • DIVINE FAVOR
    • SUPERNATURAL PROMOTION & INFLUENCE
    Our children and grandchildren were not born to become the latest casualties in Satan’s assault, but rather the newest conquerors!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharisma House
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781629982441
    The Daniel Prayer for Parents: Praying Favor, Protection, and Blessing Over Your Children

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      The Daniel Prayer for Parents - George Sawyer

      Parents.

      INTRODUCTION

      IT WAS THE Sunday before the new school year was to begin. I had no idea that what we would do on this day was so important it would demand that we shift the order of our service and enlist our entire church family in its exercise. On this day we called to the front of our worship center every student from preschool through college—and we prayed.

      For some time we had begun every school year by praying for our students. The prayer time was always very powerful and effective. But on this day something was different. I had recently concluded a message series on the life of Daniel, and what I initially thought to be an interesting collateral blessing of the study would forever transform the way our congregation would pray for our children and students.

      While I was studying Daniel’s incredible life for that sermon series, I sensed God directing me to Daniel chapter 1 as I prayed for my own children and grandchildren. There God revealed to me a very clear, intentional, and anointed prayer to speak over them every day as they were in school. I had begun praying this prayer over my own family, but on this Back to School Sunday, I publicly prayed my Daniel prayer over all these students as our church family joined me in intercession.

      Something shifted spiritually in that moment. What I had been learning about the power of this prayer in my personal devotion was released that day on all of the students. God met us. The students knew it, and so did their families. The confidence and boldness produced by this Holy Spirit-empowered, biblically based prayer was undeniable. Parents and grandparents immediately began to ask me to put the prayer in print so they could pray it daily over their students.

      And so an exciting, sometimes challenging prayer journey began for the Calvary Assembly family. As you read this book, you will not only learn the dynamic principles we gleaned about how to pray for our children and students, you will also read stories of how God has wonderfully responded with unmistakable answers to our prayers for those we love.

      The first day of kindergarten, the first day of middle school, the first day of high school, and even the day your child drives away to enter college—what do you do? How do you let go at each of these milestones? You had better learn how to pray. And not just any kind of prayer. Not prayers in which you’re merely hoping, wishing, or even begging God to do something. You must learn to pray so that your intercession defines your children’s destiny and their generation as a result.

      I hope that as you read this book, you do not think of this prayer as a simple formula to merely recite over your children. I pray you will come to understand and apply the truths contained within it. If you pray these principles in faith, with the understanding that God can and wants to move in your child’s life, trust me, you’ll be amazed at the results.

      Are you ready? Let’s get started.

      PART 1

      LAYING THE FOUNDATION

      Chapter 1

      YOUR PRAYERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE

      In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.

      —DANIEL 1:1, MEV

      TWO WORLDS COLLIDED, and all sense of pre-existing order was undone. To the young people tossed into this chaos, these people and their customs were strange and unfamiliar. There were new faces, new names, new sights and sounds, new pressures and influences. But this culture was not just different; in many ways it stood in stark contrast—even opposition—to everything the young people had been taught in their homes.

      What is happening here? At the beginning of the Book of Daniel, the nation of Israel had been on a long, steady downward march away from their God and His Word. Eventually their rebellion and disregard for God had permeated their government, religion, and society at large, and God could no longer bless or protect them. Eventually they found themselves in captivity, reaping the consequences of what they had long been sowing.

      Once revered, the nation had become easy prey. The armies of Babylon marched onto their fair land and into their seemingly unassailable capital city. They destroyed and burned every symbol of Israel’s security and faith, and looted everything of monetary value. They would even capture some of the leading citizens of Judah and cruelly march their spoils of war all the way back to Babylon in a parade of defeat and disgrace.

      But that was not the end of Babylon’s plans for these captives.

      Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.

      —DANIEL 1:3–4

      The Babylonians wanted to train Israel’s best and brightest to serve their nation, a nation steeped in idolatry and with no understanding of the one true God. The young men they handpicked showed aptitude for every kind of learning; they were intelligent and gifted. And the Babylonians wanted to misdirect their gifts and abilities to put them in service to their own ungodly kingdom. Their plan was to teach them the language, literature, customs, and purposes of Babylon, and have them forget about, or at least disregard, their God.

      But there was no way these young Israelites could reach their full potential if they became disconnected from the One who gave them their gifts and talents in the first place. To live life at its highest level, we must personally know the gracious God who created us. We must realize that our talents and gifts are from God and meant to be used to serve His purposes. So what were these young Hebrews to do?

      It is no accident that the Babylonians targeted the young for their training plan. Satan constantly seeks as his victims the most vulnerable, the young, the least able to defend themselves. And why? He wants to attack and destroy their dreams, hopes, and God-given potential before they have the opportunity to develop.

      Satan is always more afraid of a person’s future than his past! Every generation is born with a death assignment from Satan and a life-more-abundantly assignment from God. This is why we must pray for this rising generation.

      There has always existed a hellish strategy to crush a dream before it develops, to exterminate deliverance as soon as it is birthed from the womb of God’s design. Think with me of Moses. He was born in a crisis, in a pivotal moment in time, as God’s answer to His people’s prayers for deliverance. But if Pharaoh had his way, Moses would never have been born.

      In a plan that could only have been demonically inspired, Pharaoh issued a death decree that all the male babies born to the enslaved Israelites must be executed at birth. Yet with great love and courage, Moses’s parents refused to obey Pharaoh’s decree. We know the rest of the story. Moses left an incredible legacy—and it was all because his parents protected their son and trusted God with his future.

      Fast-forward to two thousand years ago. God came to deliver us from the power of sin. Jesus Christ was born of a virgin in a nondescript stable in Bethlehem. The perfect God allowed His divinity to be clothed with humanity. When this happened, an alarm went off in hell, and Satan once again found a human puppet through which he could attack this young deliverer. Herod, as Pharaoh before him, decreed that the male babies of Israel must be put to death at birth. Why? Satan wanted to exterminate the Deliverer before Jesus could accomplish the purpose for which God put Him on this earth.

      First Moses, then Jesus—and Satan still hasn’t come up with anything new. Today Satan is again trying to eliminate the deliverers God is sending to us in our generation. Again his target is the young. For more than forty years now in America there has been a licensed assault against the most vulnerable of all—babies developing in the womb. It seems in our day that Satan’s fear and intensity have escalated to unprecedented levels even for him. He must be really intimidated by God’s plans for this generation if he cannot even wait until they are born to eliminate them.

      Never has a generation been so assaulted and abused both inside and out of the womb. These are potential leaders, deliverers, and champions. We must recognize and respond to this satanic assault with an even greater intensity and devotion—we must pray for this chosen generation. We are in a battle for the destiny of a generation, and as a consequence, we are in a battle for the future they will define. Our enemy is great, but our God is greater. Our enemy is mighty, but our God is almighty. Our enemy is wily, but our God has all wisdom.

      Our children and grandchildren were not born to become the latest casualties in Satan’s assault on our youth, but rather the newest conquerors. We are supposed to win this spiritual battle, and we will as we understand the overcoming dominion of Spirit-enabled prayer!

      We read in 2 Corinthians 10:3–5, For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

      And Romans 8:31 says, What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? (MEV).

      A few verses later Scripture tells us, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, neither height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. 8:35, 37–39, MEV).

      God is bigger than our obstacle, and through Christ we can triumph over the enemy. Our inheritance as children of God is victory.

      WHAT’S IN A NAME?

      Satan likes to insist that intelligence operates only in the absence of the knowledge of the one true God. How faulty, narrow, and shallow. Today, everywhere we cast our gaze in education and culture, we see intellectual development without an understanding of destiny. As the late pastor Myles Munroe stated, When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.¹

      In his assault on the young Israelites in Babylon, one of Satan’s first targets was their identity. In short order, their names were changed. Instead of names that spoke of their Hebrew heritage and purpose in God, they were given new Babylonian counterfeits. Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah became Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Dan. 1:6–7).

      Why is this so important? Because once

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