Hey everyone, thanks for joining us for the Your Daily Prayer Podcast.

We hope these few moments of prayer and reflection are encouraging to you as you go about your day.

To get all of our episodes straight to your phone during the week,

just subscribe to this

podcast on iTunes or wherever you listen to your podcast. To find more prayers,

devotional content, and blog post we would love for you to join us at I Believe.com.

A prayer for God's protection over our children.

Written by John North.

Read by Alyssa Forsberg.

Start children off on the way they should go,

and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Proverbs 22-6.

God has taken a life that he loves, that he wants nurtured to love him and serve him,

and entrusted it into your care. No greater privilege could he give you.

As you watch your children grow, whether you are their natural spiritual parent, you realize that their whole lives are being

shaped by their experiences in their early years. As you train your children to love God above

all else and to share Christ with others and to see every situation as a

ministry opportunity, you are shooting them like arrows into the future.

Long after your own influence in this world has faded, your children and their children after them

will be serving God and building his kingdom in the lives and hearts of those around them.

The time you spend giving your kids a godly heritage will bear far greater

fruit in the long run than time spent in your own ministry to others. If you are a

...