PRAYER NOTES – PARENTS

Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you. (Deut 5:16)

• Give thanks for our Heavenly Father and his great love and care for us. Praise him for his guidance, discipline and acceptance of us through Jesus.
• Give thanks for our parents, and especially for mums as we celebrate Mothers Day, and pray for God’s blessing on them in their current stage of life. Ask for the Lord’s provision and strength to meet present challenges. 
• Pray and give thanks for our Mother’s Day service and for Mainly Music’s Mother’s Day High Tea. May the Holy Spirit continue to move powerfully to open parent’s hearts to the gospel of grace.
• Pray for parents at The Grove, for the wisdom they need to lead their children. Ask that they would also lead by example in life and faith. Ask the Lord to refresh and encourage busy parents of young children juggling so many responsibilities. 
• Pray that children would honour their parents and submit to their leadership.
• Ask Jesus to bring back those children who have got lost in the world, and for a day of celebration for parents when they return to Christ.
• Pray for those caring for ageing parents, for wisdom and love to treat them with grace and dignity. Remember also those who have lost a parent in recent years.
• Pray for reconcilation between children and parents where there is unforgiveness and broken relationships. Pray for protection and freedom for children and spouses where there is domestic violence. 
• Pray for parents, grandparents and carer’s who are nurturing children struggling with physical, emotional or relational difficulties. Ask for the guidance they need to help them, but also for breakthrough and freedom for the children.
• Pray for the raising up of spiritual parents who would invest hope and life in young people at The Grove.
• Pray for parents and families in India, and remember the many millions who live in slums. Pray for an outpouring of generosity to meet physical needs, and that the gospel would bring hope and light in the darkness.