Feeling Loved and Accepted

Dear Father,

I pray for Kayla, Travis and Shakira to feel loved and accepted. Penetrate their hearts with Your love right now and help them to fully understand how far reaching and complete it is. Your Word says You loved us so much that You sent Your Son to die for us. (John 3:16) Deliver each of them from any lies of the enemy that may have been planted in their mind to cause them to doubt that. Jesus said, "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in Your love. May they say as David did, "cause me to hear Your loving kindness in the morning, for in You do I trust." (Psalm 143:8) Manifest Your love in my children in a real way today and help them to receive it.
I pray also that You would help me to love these children unconditionally the way that You do, and enable me to show it in a manner they can perceive it. Reveal to me how I can demonstrate and model Your love to them so that it will be clearly understood. I pray that all my family members will love and accept them and may they also find favor with others. With each day that they grow in the confidence of being loved and accepted, release in them the capacity to easily communicate love to others. Enable them to reach out in love in a way that is appropriate. As they come to fully understand the depth of Your love for them and as they receive it into their souls, make them a vessel through which Your love flows to others.
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"

1 John 4:9-11 (The Message)
God Is Love
7-10My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.
11-12My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!


Deuteronomy 7:6
Do this because you are a people set apart as holy to God, your God. God, your God, chose you out of all the people on Earth for himself as a cherished, personal treasure.


1 John 4:16 (Amplified Bible)
And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.


2 Thessalonians 2:13 (Amplified Bible)
But we, brethren beloved by the Lord, ought and are obligated [as those who are in debt] to give thanks always to God for you, because God chose you from the beginning [a]as His firstfruits (first converts) for salvation through the sanctifying work of the [Holy] Spirit and [your] belief in (adherence to, trust in, and reliance on) the Truth.


Ephesians 1:3-6 (Amplified Bible)
3May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm!
4Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.
5For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [[a]because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]--
6[So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favor and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.