Father God,
Thank you so much that we’re having a boy! I was so surprised Thursday and I thank you for even that gift of getting the exciting news.
We still are dependant on you to keep Owen alive and grow him and develop him into a healthy baby. Please continue to protect him and knit him together in his mother’s womb as you did Jeremiah and every other human in history.
Jen and I thank you that you know the plans you have for Owen in your kingdom. We thank you for whatever they will be. More than anything we pray that he would put his faith in Jesus when he grows up.
We pray that he will be a manly man, a Godly man, and an honorable man, the way you’ve created men to be in this world. We pray that he would have a soft and loving heart. We pray that he would stand up and fight for the truth and for you and for righteous things. We pray that he would be a hard worker who is diligent and has integrity. We pray that he would honor women and love one woman for his whole life – if indeed you call him to marry. We pray that he would take risks with his life for you and your glory but we also pray that you would protect him. We pray that he would reach thousands of lost souls for the gospel and that he would do great things in your kingdom. We pray that he would be an effective leader in your church in some way.
God, we pray that you would put a fire in his heart to see your glory spread throughout the earth. We pray that that fire would be unquenchable and never-ending. We pray that he would have an extraordinary drive to work for the advancement of your kingdom and an extraordinary love for the lost.
Father, we also pray for ourselves. Please give us the grace and the wisdom to be Godly parents – to show Owen your love but also your holiness, your grace but also your wrath, your forgiveness but also your discipline. Help us to show him how Jesus reconciles this two-sided nature of yours at the cross and offers salvation and freedom to all who would put their faith in Him.
Along with that, God, help us to love him abundantly but help us not to love him more than you, and help us not to love him so much that we keep him for ourselves instead of letting him go at the proper time to live and love and risk for your glory and your kingdom.
If you are a parent or a parent-to-be we pray the same things for your children.
“How great is the love that the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” – 1 John 3:1
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