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For New Parents

Perfect Father,
The privilege of being a parent is a special blessing. When parenting for the first time, there are many questions and fears that new parents face. Address their fears with the assurance that they aren’t alone in raising their child(ren), and that you are not only the giver of the gift of children, but that you also provide the best guidance and direction in raising little ones. Shape their skills with your Word and empower them to carry out their responsibility with dedication and faithfulness. Through your Spirit, ensure that the Savior is central to their parenting, both for their own needs and the needs of their children.

Be with new fathers, especially those who are overwhelmed and feel at a loss when it comes to figuring out their role. Let them know how important it is for them to support and hold up their wives in this early season of parenting. Help them to take note of the ways they can step up and contribute around the household, so that new moms aren’t burdened by those responsibilities in addition to nurturing and caring for a newborn. Use this time for fathers to reflect on how they will take the lead in overseeing the spiritual care of their family. Raise up spiritually strong and confident fathers who are then equipped to raise spiritually strong sons and daughters. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Fathers to Lead Spiritually

Loving Father,
Equip fathers to be strong spiritual leaders in their homes. While it is one of the greatest responsibilities of Christian fathers, it is also among the most neglected. Many fathers struggle so much with leading themselves spiritually that they are not prepared to lead their families. Others may prioritize their own spiritual health, but lack the ability or confidence to lead anyone else.

Help fathers see how important their role is in shaping the spiritual health of their children. Children whose fathers worship with them are far more likely to continue attending church as adults, so lead dads to embrace the blessing of regular worship together and to take responsibility for leading their family to your house for worship. Make them aware of informal and unplanned opportunities to discuss your Word and their faith. Provide fathers with pastors and strong believing friends who can support them in their leadership. Move wives and children to encourage fathers in this area, and to cause their collective efforts to bear abundant fruit.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Daughters

Loving Father,
Thank you for the gift of daughters. All children are a blessing from your hand, but sons and daughters are each unique in their own ways. Daughters often display natural relational abilities and an empathy for others that you develop into a blessing to serve both families and society in general. They can exhibit both determination and a genuine sweetness in their demeanor that provides unique perspectives and approaches to responsibilities and tasks. 

I pray that you provide daughters with strong fathers who love and protect them, and who welcome their hugs and affection so they know how to express their feelings and emotions appropriately. Lead fathers to raise them to be prudent and careful, and to be able to know how to defend themselves. Use fathers to model what a godly man looks like, so they have high standards and expectations in their relationships. 

Bless daughters with mothers who foster a strong mother/daughter bond, establishing a beautiful relationship that will bring joy to the lives of both. Let mothers show them what godly confidence and drive look like. Use mothers to help their daughters discern healthy avenues along which to direct their determination. Teach them also what a blessing meekness and a submissive spirit can be through mothers who model it.

Through both parents, ensure that above all else, Christ is central in the home and in life, so that daughters 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. 

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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. 

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For Spiritually Strong Fathers

Perfect Father,
Being a father isn’t easy, but it is one of the most influential roles in determining the development of children. Those without a father figure in their lives struggle in predictable ways as they grow into adulthood. Those with a neglectful, abusive, or otherwise bad father in the picture suffer significant damage as well. 

Raise up spiritually strong fathers to take the lead in raising their sons and daughters. Let them be powerful examples of humble faith in action. Let their children see them thrive in their relationship with you, Father. Through faith-filled fathers, show children what it looks like to be a child of God. Lead fathers to model sacrificial care and compassion for their children through how they treat their wives. Help fathers prioritize spending time with their kids. Let them be lovingly firm in their discipline, taking ownership of training their children in what is right and wrong in accordance with your Word. Use them to model repentance for their children, and to show them grace and forgiveness in abundance, as you have to all fathers. 

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Fathers in the Home

Heavenly Father,
We address you as “Father” in the Bible, not only because we are your children by faith, but also because in you we see the perfect model of what fatherhood looks like. Today I pray for your blessing over fathers. Open their eyes to see the magnitude of their role in the raising of children. Because our culture has disparaged and downplayed dads and masculinity in general, it has resulted in too many fathers tip-toeing around their roles. Raise up strong fathers to embrace and lean into their responsibilities, using them to model for their sons and daughters the intangible qualities that are unique to them.

Use fathers to teach children what sacrificial living looks like. Use fathers to demonstrate what devoted commitment to a spouse looks like. Use fathers to provide discipline that is both loving and firm. Use fathers as a picture of strength, security, and safety for children. Use fathers also to model what humble contrition and repentance look like, depicting for their children what treasures your grace and forgiveness truly are. Love fathers deeply, that they may in turn lavish that same love on their family and children.  

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen. 

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For Fathers

Heavenly Father,
Sundays are sacred. On this Father’s Day Sunday, we realize how many of us are doubly-blessed. Not only do we have a perfect Heavenly Father who sustains us and provides for our every need, but we also have the blessing of our earthly fathers to imitate and model His strength and care for us.

For boys and men without such examples of earthly fathers, because they were/are either absent, negligent, or even abusive, we pray that their bond with you as their Heavenly Father may be even more meaningful. In the absence of earthly fathers, surround them with other men to serve as father-figures for them, and use their positive influence to be a blessing.

Forgive all that is sinful and lacking in fathers, and build them up into strong leaders in their marriages and families. When fathers provide structure and discipline as a foundation in raising their children, use that to guide and direct them as they navigate their way through life.

Lead fathers to walk their children to the cross, to live lives of repentance and renewal through the gospel, and to let faith shine brightly for all to see, always seeking to bring glory to you, their Heavenly Father.

In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.