Staying Attracted to Holiness and Purity

Dear Lord,
I pray that You would fill each of my children and grand children with a love for You that surpasses their love for anything or anyone else. Help them to respect and revere Your laws and understand that they are there for their own benefit. May they clearly see that when Your laws are disobeyed , life does not work. Hide Your Word in each of their hearts so that there is no attraction to sin. I pray they will run from evil, from impurities, from unholy thoughts, words and deeds and that they will be drawn toward whatever is pure and holy. Let Christ be formed in them and cause them to seek the power of Your Holy Spirit to enable them to do what is right.
You have said in Your Word, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." (Matthew 5:8) May a desire for holiness that comes from a pure heart be reflected in all that they do. Let it be manifested in their appearance as well. I pray that the clothes they wear and the way they style their hair and the way they choose to adorn their body and face will reflect a reverence and a desire to glorify You, Lord.
Where they have strayed from the path of holiness, bring them to repentance and work Your cleansing power in their hearts and lives. Give them understanding that to live in purity brings wholeness and blessing, and that the greatest reward for it is seeing 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"

Psalm 24:3-5 (Amplified Bible)
3)Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His Holy Place?
4)He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully.(A)
5)He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.


2 Timothy 2:20-21 (Amplified Bible)
20)But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also [utensils] of wood and earthenware, and some for honorable and noble [use] and some for menial and ignoble [use].
21)So whoever cleanses himself [from what is ignoble and unclean, who separates himself from contact with contaminating and corrupting influences] will [then himself] be a vessel set apart and useful for honorable and noble purposes, consecrated and profitable to the Master, fit and ready for any good work.


John 15:2 (Amplified Bible)
Any branch in Me that does not bear fruit [that stops bearing] He cuts away (trims off, takes away); and He cleanses and repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more and richer and more excellent fruit.


Isaiah 35:8-10 (Amplified Bible)
8)And a highway shall be there, and a way; and it shall be called the Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for the redeemed; the wayfaring men, yes, the simple ones and fools, shall not err in it and lose their way.
9)No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there. But the redeemed shall walk on it.
10)And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


Proverbs 30:12 (Amplified Bible)
There is a class of people who are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their own filth.