How to Pray for Your Kid

Recently, I went through Dennis and Barbara Rainey's Passport2Purity book with my son. Inside is a list of valuable suggestions on how to pray for your child. This is a list of 26 suggestions of things to petition the Lord for over the life of your child. I'm hoping the Rainey's don't mind if I re-post that list here!

1. Pray that God will protect your preteen's innocence.
2. Pray that God will bring godly friends into your preteen's life.
3. Pray that your preteen won't forget how to laugh.
4. Pray that God will draw your preteen into a relationship with Him or deepen the relationship that's already established.
5. Pray that God will bring other godly adults into your preteen's life
6. Pray that your preteen will be grounded in the spiritual disciplines of Bible study, prayer, and worship.
7. Pray that your preteen will learn to love the unlovely (reach out to other kids)
8. Pray that God will bring about tests of character in your preteen's life to help him learn how to stand strong in his convictions.
9. Pray that your preteen will develop humility.
10. Pray that you will catch your preteen in sin in order to have opportunities to train him.
11. Pray that your preteen will develop a larger peer group of believers that can have its own identity--enjoying music, parties, and memories together.
12. Pray that intellectual understanding of the changes in your preteen's body will give him cause to praise God for His glorious creation.
13. Pray that your preteen will respect and treat the opposite sex in a biblical manner.
14. Pray that your preteen will develop his own convictions about what he watches, listens to, and reads.
15. Pray that your preteen will learn self-control.
16. Pray that if your preteen is lying to you, God will allow you to catch him in that lie. Pray also that God will give him the courage to follow through with restitution and repentance.
17. Pray that your preteen will not give in to the temptation to use drugs or alchol.
18. Pray that your preteen will develop a loving and caring relationship with his siblings.
19. Pray that your preteen will learn how to manage his anger.
20. Pray that your preteen will learn how to control his tongue.
21. Pray that God will protect your preteen's mind from being polluted by pornographic images and ideas.
22. Pray that your preteen will not develop an attachment and preoccupation with material things.
23. Pray that God will keep the communication lines open between you and your preteen during the teenage years.
24. Pray that your preteen will develop biblical convictions.
25. Pray that your preteen will stand strong wen peers pressure him to do something contrary to those convictions.
26. Pray that your preteen will begin to understand God's mission for his life.