Bible Texts: Jn.17:8-10, Mk.9:29, Lk.18:1, Gal.4:10, Philp.2:13, Jer.29:11, 3Jn.:2, Ps.23:1, 1Thess.5:17, Rom.12:21, Eph.6:4
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you, My little children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you (Gal.4:18-19)
One of the principal responsibilities you and I have towards our wife and children is to intercede for them. This is because prayer is the weapon we have as good and godly shepherds to shield and secure them from the influences of satan, sin and the world (Jn.10:10). This is why today, I want you to carefully read this passage of Scripture and see why you must intercede for your wife and children, as your covenant responsibility.
I pray for them. I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me, for they are mine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them (Jn.17:9-10)
Jesus prayed for his disciples, and they became empowered to continue the kingdom assignment. This was evidenced in Acts of the Apostles.
What are the dimensions of intercession must I commit myself to for my wife and children?
God wants you to lift your wife and children in prayers concerning their spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, career, academic, relationship, health, and financial lives. God wants you to pray for their spiritual life so that they will be filled with the fear and knowledge of the Lord, which will make them love God and do only those things that please Him, whether anyone is watching them or not (Is.11:2). God also wants you to pray for their physical well-being. This covers their health, education, career, business, and all other pursuits. God wants you to pray for the stability of their thoughts, conduct, and emotional well-being, too. God wants you to pray for them so that they can form and maintain healthy, godly, and good relationships, enabling them to live above any form of peer pressure (Rom. 12:2, 1 Cor.15:33).
What do I stand to benefit when I intercede for my wife and children?
The husbandmen that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits (2Tim.2:6)
As the good and godly husbandman, you will always be the ultimate beneficiary of the results of the prayers you pray for your wife and children. Therefore, you must be intentional about praying for them even as you drive or walk to work, as you sit to eat, as you take a walk down the street, or in your quiet time. Your wife and children belong to you. God gave them to you so that through you He can mould them to become all that He plans for them (Gen.12:2, Ps.133:2). And intercession is the platform God has provided to make that happen.
Are you ready to start interceding for your wife and children?
SPIRITUAL EXERCISE
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, anoint me with fresh oil to be an effective intercessor for my wife and children.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, empower me by Your Spirit to function in my office as the good and godly husbandman.
- Father, in the Name of Jesus, answer me when I call on You on behalf of my wife and children.
FAITH CONFESSION
My wife and children are gifts from God and He has empowered me to intercede for them until the fullness of Christ’s nature is formed in them because that is my heritage as the good and godly husbandman in Jesus name. Amen.
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