Attracting Godly Friends and Role Models

Dear Lord,
I lift up my children and my grand children to You, and ask You would bring godly friends and role models into their lives. Give each of them the wisdom they need to choose friends who are godly and help them to never compromise their walk with You in order to gain acceptance. Give me Holy Spirit inspired discernment in how I guide or influence them in the selection of friends. I pray that You would take anyone who is not a godly influence out of their lives or else transform that person into Your likeness. Lord, I can think of a certain person who I would like out of Shakira's life, or change him Lord. Also their are bad influences in Travis' life as well Lord, please remove those who will bring these children down Lord. Your Word says, "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed." (Proverbs 13:20) Don't let these children or grand children be a companion of fools Lord. Enable them to walk with wise friends and not have to experience the destruction that can happen by walking with foolish people. Deliver them from anyone with an ungodly character so they will not learn that person's ways and set a snare for their own souls.
Whenever their is grief over a lost friendship, comfort them and send new friends with whom they can connect, share and be the people that You created them to be. Take away any loneliness or low self-esteem that would cause them to seek out less that God-glorifying relationships. In Jesus' Holy name I pray that You would teach them the meaning of true friendships. Teach them how to be a good friend and how to make strong, close and lasting relationships. May each of their friendships always glorify You.
I ask this according to Your good and perfect will,
In Jesus' Holy name,
Amen

(Prayer and scripture from "The Power of a Praying Parent"- Stormie Omartian)


"WEAPONS OF WARFARE"

Proverbs 4:14 (Amplified Bible)
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.


1 Corinthians 5:11 (Amplified Bible)
But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.


Proverbs 24:21-22 (Amplified Bible)
21)My son, [reverently] fear the Lord and the king, and do not associate with those who are given to change [of allegiance, and are revolutionary],
22)For their calamity shall rise suddenly, and who knows the punishment and ruin which both [the Lord and the king] will bring upon [the rebellious]?


Proverbs 22:24-25 (Amplified Bible)
24)Make no friendships with a man given to anger, and with a wrathful man do not associate,
25)Lest you learn his ways and get yourself into a snare.


Psalm 1:1 (Amplified Bible)
BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.