Pray For Your Son: 31 Day Challenge—Day Twenty-Six & Twenty-Seven

Day Twenty-Six: That he would love God with his mind

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. –Matthew 22:37

We want our sons to treasure Christ. It is our desire that they love God more than the fleeting pleasures of sin. Yet, how will they treasure Christ if they do not engage him with their minds? We don’t have to be intellectual giants—but we are called to love God with our minds. We live in a culture that devalues serious thinking. Sadly, the church has fostered this attitude since the early 20th century. Let us pray that our sons would see the value of loving God with their minds.

Lord, I thank you for giving us minds with which to worship you. I pray today that you would captivate my son’s mind. Help him to take captive every thought for your glory. Stir up in him a passion to seek after you with all of his mind. Help him not to settle for small thoughts of you.

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Day Twenty-Seven: that Christ would heal his wounds

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3

Those of us that participated in the 31 Day Pray For Your Wife challenge, might remember this prayer. I almost passed this one over, and then realized that this applies to our sons just as much as to our wives. Indeed, Christ is the Great Healer for men and women. He heals up the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. No matter their age our sons likely carry with them wounds; some emotional, some physical, others mental or spiritual. Christ is redeeming this brokenness. Whatever wound your son is carrying, pray today that Jesus would give him healing. No wound is too deep for Christ to fill up with His goodness and mercy.

Father, I am grateful that you heal the brokenhearted and bind up our wounds. Lord, I know that my son has wounds. It pains me to think that some of them are there from my own sin. I also know that praying for his healing might mean that you have to reopen the wounds to give him redemption in these areas. Heal the places in his heart that are broken. Bind up his wounds. Overwhelm him with your grace and mercy. Where there were once ashes replace them with your beauty. Amen.