Family Prayers

Our pastor ran across this resource a few weeks ago, and now we are going through these prayers twice a week as a church. I haven't read through all of them yet, but the author has just put scriptures together in the form of prayers, changing the pronouns to apply to various family members. You can download his three books for free here.

Here's a sample from this week:

Prayer for a wife...

Thou Great Being who made and rules the world,
Put Your Spirit in my wife with perfect power and bear His
fruits from her life. May she be a loving woman; a joyful, peaceful
woman; a patient, kind, good wife. Make her soul and actions
abound with faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, for against
such things there is no law. By Christ Jesus crucify her flesh with
its passions and desires.
Let her not grow weary in doing good, for in due season she will
reap if she does not give up. And may she never boast except in
the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been
crucified to her, and she to the world (Galatians 5 & 6).


Prayer for a husband...

Great God,

May my husband be a man inclined to pour
himself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire
of the afflicted, so that his light will rise in the darkness and
his gloom be as the noonday. Then guide him continually and
satisfy his desire in scorched places. Make his bones strong,
so that he is like a watered garden, like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.

May he be radiant; his heart thrilled to say, “I will greatly
rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for He has
clothed me with the garments of salvation; He has covered
me with the robe of righteousness.” Make him count the
garments of salvation as sufficient clothing, valued by him as
more precious and worthy of care than the adornments of a
king. May his robes of righteousness be ever prevalent,
outshining worldly dress. Amen (Isaiah 58 & 61).

Prayer for children...

Righteous are You, O LORD, and right are Your rules.
You have appointed Your testimonies in righteousness
and in faithfulness.

Your promise is well tried; may my children love it. Even
when they are small and despised, let them not forget Your
precepts. Your righteousness is righteous forever, and Your
law is true. When trouble and anguish find them out, make
Your commandments their delight. Your testimonies are
righteous forever; give them understanding that they may
live.

With my whole heart I cry for them; answer me, O LORD!
Cause them to keep Your statutes. I call to You; save them,
that they may observe Your testimonies. I rise before dawn
and cry for help; may they hope in Your words. Awaken their
eyes before the watches of the night, that they may meditate
on Your promise. Hear my voice according to Your steadfast
love; O LORD, according to Your justice give them life. When
they draw near who persecute them with evil purpose, who
are far from Your law, assure them that You are near, O
LORD, and all Your commandments are true. Long have I
known from Your testimonies that You have founded them
forever (Psalm 119).