Honoring Parents and Resisting Rebellion

Dear Lord,

I pray that You would give my children and grand children a heart that desires to obey You. Put into each one of them a longing to spend time with You, in Your Word and in prayer, listening for Your voice. Shine Your light upon any secret or unseen rebellion that is taking root in their hearts, so it can be identified and destroyed. Lord, I pray that each of them will not give themselves over to pride, selfishness, and rebellion, but that they will be delivered from it. By the authority You have given me in Jesus' name, I "stand against the wiles of the devil" and I resist idolatry, rebellion, stubbornness and disrespect; they will have no part in these children's lives, nor will these children walk a path of destruction and death because of them.
Your Word instructs, " children, obey your parents in all things, for this is pleasing to the Lord". (Colossians 3:20) I pray that You would turn the hearts of these children toward their parents and enable them to honor and obey them so that their lives will be long and good. Turn their hearts toward You so that all they do is pleasing in Your sight. May each of them learn to identify and confront pride and rebellion in themselves and be willing to confess and repent of it. Make each of them so uncomfortable with sin. Help them to know the beauty and simplicity of walking with a sweet and humble spirit in obedience and submission to 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"


Isaiah 1:19-20 (Amplified Bible)
19)If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;
20)But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.


Psalm 107:10-12 (Amplified Bible)
10)Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons,
11)Because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High.
12)Therefore He bowed down their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled and fell down, and there was none to help.


Proverbs 30:17 (Amplified Bible)
17)The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother, the ravens of the valley will pick it out, and the young vultures will devour it.


Proverbs 1:8-9 (Amplified Bible)
8)My son, hear the instruction of your father; reject not nor forsake the teaching of your mother.
9)For they are a [victor's] chaplet (garland) of grace upon your head and chains and pendants [of gold worn by kings] for your neck.


Nehemiah 9:26-27 (Amplified Bible)
26)Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You and cast Your law behind their back and killed Your prophets who accused and warned them to turn to You again; and they committed great and contemptible blasphemies.
27)Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who distressed them. In the time of their suffering when they cried to You, You heard them from heaven, and according to Your abundant mercy You gave them deliverers, who saved them from their enemies.



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