For Sons
Loving Father,
Thank you for the gift of sons. All children are a blessing from your hand, but sons and daughters are each unique in their own ways. Sons often display a competitive nature and physicality that can be shaped and nurtured positively as they become men. It allows them to fulfill the role you call them to in sacrificially loving and protecting women in general and their future wives more specifically. Sons also demonstrate a curious nature, longing to discover and explore, which you have used to bless mankind throughout the ages.
Of course these qualities, if not lovingly developed by fathers who lead their sons well, can also be contributing factors in future harm and wrongdoing that is carried out. So I pray that you provide sons with strong fathers who are intentional about modeling not only what it looks like to be a man, but especially a Christian man to their sons. Give fathers the realization of how much influence they truly have over their sons, and direct them to use it positively. Where sons lack a father’s presence in the home, surround them with strong men who take them under their wing to influence them in meaningful and helpful ways.
Bless sons also with loving mothers who can demonstrate care and compassion for them, so they display these essential qualities in their lives as well. Let mothers provide a balance of gentleness and humility for their sons to see and to emulate.
Through both parents, ensure that above all else, Christ is central in the home and in life, so that sons may learn to know what unconditional love is, and love Christ and others deeply in return because of it.
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.