Wed.’s Devo - Prayers For Our Children

Read: Is. 43:14-45:10; Eph. 3:1-21: Ps. 68:1-18; Pr. 24:1-2 I just got home from visiting two of my sons and their families so my heart is heavy for them. As parents we want to see our children prospering in every way and it is easy for me to see all the things I should have done or prepared them for. It is hard not to feel like a failure, so I am so glad for the great promises in today’s reading. In Chapter 43, God says He will make a way when it seems impossible: a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. If you think about that, it is all impossible situations…it is impossible to make a path in the waters of a storm. But, God can do even that. No matter what our storm is, God can make a way out of it. In Chapter 44, God promises to pour out His spirit on our seed and His blessings on our offspring. God is our redeemer that formed us and our children in the womb. He will raise up decayed places like Jerusalem that had become uninhabited. To me, those decayed and uninhabited places are like unfulfilled dreams or plans. God can take the pieces our our failures and build them back into successes. In Chapter 45, God promises to go before us and make crooked places straight and break in pieces the gates of brass. God will make the hard times turn into prosperous times and tear down the things that are keeping us or our kids from encountering HIm. I have to bring out one verse that people have a hard time with and it is 45:7. The King James says that God created peace and evil. God is the creator of all things: good and bad. He created light and darkness, a tree with fruit of knowledge of good and evil. This should comfort us because God controls his creation. Lord may our children and grand children be strengthened with might by Your Spirit in their inner man; that You may dwell in their hearts by faith in their inner man. May they know the love of Christ and be filled with all the fulness of God because you are able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us.