Maintaining Good Family Relationships

Dear Father in Heaven,
I pray for my children and grand children today and their relationship with all family members. Protect and preserve them from any unresolved or permanent breach. Fill each of their hearts with Your love and give them an abundance of compassion and forgiveness that will overflow to each member of the family. Specifically, I pray for a close, happy, loving relationship between each child and their parents and siblings for all the days of their lives. May there always be good communication between them and may unforgiveness have no root in their hearts. Help them to love, value,appreciate, and respect one another so that the God ordained tie between them cannot be broken. I pray according to Your Word, that they "be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another" (Romans 12:10)." Teach each of these children to resolve misunderstandings according to Your Word. Where there is any division Lord, where any relationship is strained or severed I pray that You will drive out the wedge of division and bring healing Lord.You alone know Lord that there has been severe division among my children and my husband, but I also know that You can bring healing to everyone and You can bring them each to true forgiveness so that they can have a close, loving relationship in the future. I pray that there be no strain, breach, misunderstanding, arguing, fighting, or separating of ties. Give them each a heart of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Your Word instructs us to "be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous." (I Peter 3:8) Help each of them to live accordingly, "endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." (Ephesians 4:3) I Jesus' Holy name I pray that You would instill a love and compassion in each of these children for all family members that is strong and unending, like a cord that cannot be broken.

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"

Matthew 5:9 (Amplified Bible)
Blessed (enjoying enviable happiness, spiritually prosperous--with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God!


Psalm 133:1
BEHOLD, HOW good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!


Romans 15:5-6 (Amplified Bible)
5)Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance (steadfastness) and Who supplies encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
6)That together you may [unanimously] with united hearts and one voice, praise and glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).


Romans 12:18 (Amplified Bible)
If possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.


1 Corinthians 1:10 (Amplified Bible)
But I urge and entreat you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in perfect harmony and full agreement in what you say, and that there be no dissensions or factions or divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in your common understanding and in your opinions and judgments.