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Pray for Me
The Prayer Champion's Guide to Essential Prayer for the Next Generation.
156 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 4, 2013
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April 30, 2024
I started re-reading this book when my 2nd child went to college. Although I loved the book last time, by the end of my first round, I felt it was dragging, and the repetitive format started to get to me. This time around, I loved the book until the end, digging out new treasures from the verses along the way, and feeling sorry that I drew to the close. I have even more kids from the younger generation to pray for than before - people in their teens and early twenties - that I have added to the inside cover, and I've also found these verses applicable for praying for others, whatever their age. This time through, I also prayed them for my family elders, government leaders, church leaders, people that I hold near and dear, and myself.
- - - Original review below.
While I was chaperoning a summer church camp for middle school students, I saw this book on display in the back of the leaders' room. Honestly, I don't remember the camp director mentioning it, except perhaps in passing, and the youth pastor I was helping didn't mention it at all. (To be fair to him, he was in transition, getting ready to help start a church plant, and getting ready to leave youth ministry. I could see why he wouldn't feel it was the appropriate timing for him to begin a prayer ministry, adults praying for teens, at his soon-to-be former church.)
But the book caught my attention. With one child heading off to college that fall, I thought I would probably re-read "The Power of a Praying Parent," both to help myself with any worries over the matter, and to genuinely help our college student in the new situation. I decided, instead, to read this book for something fresher (for me, anyway) and new.
There are a couple of chapters on finding teens to pray for. As I don't seem to have any trouble finding teens to pray for - they come to me and surround me - I skimmed over that section.
So, as my oldest headed off to college, I began praying through this book, doing a page or so a night. What I particularly liked about this book is that it's not really a lot of talk from the author. It's more a one-per-page listing of Bible verses and passages to pray over our kids. I loved that! And while some of them were more obvious, various prayers in the Bible, others of them were passages I had not thought of praying before.
I loved the first passage that the book lists, and the associated prayer was basically that these kids would recognize and see these things:
"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand are power and might, and in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank You, our God, and praise Your glorious name."
- 1 Chronicles 29:11-13
I loved that verse because it took my anxiety about the situation at hand and turned it to praise. I have found these verses in this book not only appropriate to pray over the teens around me, but also to pray for myself, my husband, and our friends.
I loved this book so much that I got copies of it for the moms' prayer group at my younger teens' school, an already-existing ministry, and I have never gotten them books before.
There are verses to pray for favor, wisdom, love, faith, purity, speech, and conduct. I find that to be a somewhat arbitrary listing of categories to pray over. I'm sure there are endless more to pray, but this is a good start.
Beautiful.
- - - Original review below.
While I was chaperoning a summer church camp for middle school students, I saw this book on display in the back of the leaders' room. Honestly, I don't remember the camp director mentioning it, except perhaps in passing, and the youth pastor I was helping didn't mention it at all. (To be fair to him, he was in transition, getting ready to help start a church plant, and getting ready to leave youth ministry. I could see why he wouldn't feel it was the appropriate timing for him to begin a prayer ministry, adults praying for teens, at his soon-to-be former church.)
But the book caught my attention. With one child heading off to college that fall, I thought I would probably re-read "The Power of a Praying Parent," both to help myself with any worries over the matter, and to genuinely help our college student in the new situation. I decided, instead, to read this book for something fresher (for me, anyway) and new.
There are a couple of chapters on finding teens to pray for. As I don't seem to have any trouble finding teens to pray for - they come to me and surround me - I skimmed over that section.
So, as my oldest headed off to college, I began praying through this book, doing a page or so a night. What I particularly liked about this book is that it's not really a lot of talk from the author. It's more a one-per-page listing of Bible verses and passages to pray over our kids. I loved that! And while some of them were more obvious, various prayers in the Bible, others of them were passages I had not thought of praying before.
I loved the first passage that the book lists, and the associated prayer was basically that these kids would recognize and see these things:
"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is Yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and You are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all. In Your hand are power and might, and in Your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank You, our God, and praise Your glorious name."
- 1 Chronicles 29:11-13
I loved that verse because it took my anxiety about the situation at hand and turned it to praise. I have found these verses in this book not only appropriate to pray over the teens around me, but also to pray for myself, my husband, and our friends.
I loved this book so much that I got copies of it for the moms' prayer group at my younger teens' school, an already-existing ministry, and I have never gotten them books before.
There are verses to pray for favor, wisdom, love, faith, purity, speech, and conduct. I find that to be a somewhat arbitrary listing of categories to pray over. I'm sure there are endless more to pray, but this is a good start.
Beautiful.
April 9, 2024
The daily reflections and prayers are short but meaningful. The book is a great tool to be used as a launching point for intergenerational ministry. We are using this book as a tool to connect our older church members with our teenagers.
March 29, 2020
A great book to help you pray for students (or children or grandchildren). Highly recommend. There is also a version for children.
December 6, 2019
I love the concept behind this book, it's purpose. I also enjoyed the scriptures shared each day. At times, it did come across as repetitive.
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