June.27.02: Light For The Day - "Bless Through Generations"

-- Psalms 103:17 (NIV)
"But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is
with those who fear him,
and His righteousness with their children's children.
18 with those who keep His covenant and remember
to obey His precepts."

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Father, in this uncertain world filled with danger and turmoil.
I ask You to protect my family.

Will I live to see my children grown?
Will I live to see my grandchildren? My great-grandchildren?
I can only trust and make each day count for something.

Forgive us for providing such a world as this with all its problems.
Yet I praise You for the many good things that are available to my children.

Lord, please bless my family for generations to come.
May the Christian teachings we instill be passed from one generation to the next.
Grant each dear one wisdom and strength.

Can it be that my simple prayers for them will be generated by Your power, the same power released when Your Son died on the cross and rose again?

Will these prayers be made ageless? I take comfort that when I am gone, my prayers will continue into eternity with You. Lord Jesus, interceding on behalf of each one.

Just as You prayed for me in the garden of Gethsemane (Jn 17:9-11), I am assured that You accept my prayers for these, my children, my children's children, and on through the generations.
I have no fear for their future, because I place them in Your loving care.

Thanks You for Your peace.

-- Unknown

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-- Proverbs 14:26 (NIV)
"He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress,
and for his children it will be a refuge."

-- Proverbs 22:6 (NIV)
"Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it."

-- John 17:9-11 (NIV)
"9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world,
but for those You have given Me, for they are Yours.
10 All I have is Yours, and all you have is Mine.
And glory has come to Me through them.
11 I will remain in the world no longer,
but they are still in the world, and I am coming to You.
Holy Father, protect them by the power of Your name -
the name You gave me -
so that they may be One as We are One."