For Americans to respect and honor their parents, No. 2

*** That Americans would respect and honor their parents.

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Please pray with me:

Father in heaven:
How excellent is Your Name over all the earth! You are gracious and loving towards Your children. Your love is perfect and nurtures us to live lives of peace and spiritual prosperity. Your love is always in our best interest. You are the perfect loving Father. Thank You for Your example and for Your Word. You show us and Your Word guides us so we can remain in the order that You designed.

You have commanded us to respect and honor our parents that social order may be maintained and that we may prosper. Thank You. Sometimes Your Word seems confining. Where You bring freedom, we tend to see restraints. Forgive us.

May children treasure their grandparents as they see the honor and respect of their parents towards them. May adults treat their elderly parents with great love, honor, respect and tenderness. Hold them strong here—especially when disease causes relationships to be challenging.

Father, please establish relationships between husbands and wives that honor You and want to honor You. Bind them by Your Holy Spirit, so that they unite before Your throne of grace on behalf of their marriage and their children. In turn, may they be protected from the influences that war against us.

Please protect husbands that they resist the temptation to provoke their wives or children to anger and frustration. Secure their minds and hearts that any temptation is cast out. Grant them patience, long-suffering and understanding. Give them respectful, helpful and loving responses to direct their children in the way in which they should live.

Father, You are the Author of marriage. May it be sacred in our nation again. Cause married couples to demonstrate over and over again to those around them—the benefits of the social order that You established. May the "researchers" continually find and report that marriage, as You define it, establishes a successful society. Father, cause the marriages that honor You to be Your messengers to those who doubt.

You have commanded husbands to love their wives and to honor them. You have commanded wives to respect and honor their husbands. You have established roles so that families can flourish and thrive. May the obedience of married couples be so powerful, that children gravitate to this model and it becomes locked into their hopes for and the very reality of their future.

May the obedience of parents to Your Word inspire children to be obedient to their parents. May the respect that parents demonstrate in the home —towards You, be embraced by their children so that the respect for their parents is a natural and embraced way of living.

May the successful relationships between parents and their children become personal habits that are unquestioned.

Help us, that we may stand strong and that we may be found faithful in the day of His coming.

In Jesus’ Name.

Please also consider this prayer: For Americans to respect and honor their parents, No. 1.
http://ernestprays.blogspot.com/2016/09/for-americans-to-respect-and-honor.html"

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