{"id":37029,"date":"2021-08-01T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=37029"},"modified":"2021-08-01T01:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:07:32","slug":"a-parents-prayer-for-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=37029","title":{"rendered":"A Parent\u2019s Prayer for Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of times now I&#8217;ve mentioned Kathleen Nielson\u2019s new set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/collections\/current-specials\/products\/prayers-of-a-parent-set-4-volumes?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">prayer books<\/a> for parents. Through four short volumes she provides prayers for parents of young children, of teens, of young adults, and of adult children. I&#8217;ve already shared \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/quotes\/a-parents-prayer-for-an-unbelieving-child\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Parent\u2019s Prayer for an Unbelieving Child<\/a>\u201d and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/quotes\/a-prayer-for-a-wanderer\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Prayer for a Wanderer<\/a>&#8221; from the books about parenting young adults and adult children, and this time thought I&#8217;d share \u201cA Prayer for Obedience\u201d from the book about parenting young children. I think parents will find it a blessing as they consider how to pray for their little ones.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for open ears<br \/> in my beloved sinful child\u2014<br \/> and, from my mouth, words wise and clear.<\/p>\n<p>I pray, Lord, for your Spirit\u2019s work<br \/> to soften her heart at the point of choice\u2014 and, for my part, a godly life that lights the way.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for her repentance when she fails,<br \/> a soul wide open to forgiveness\u2014<br \/> and, from my heart, like yours, a ready store.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for discipline to grow within her,<br \/> habits of heeding your Word\u2019s call\u2014<br \/> and, as I guide, unfailing gentleness and strength from you.<\/p>\n<p>I pray for her to seek the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of times now I\u2019ve mentioned Kathleen Nielson\u2019s new set of prayer books for parents. Through four short volumes she provides prayers for parents of young children, of teens, of young adults, and of adult children. I\u2019ve already shared \u201cA Parent\u2019s Prayer for an Unbelieving Child\u201d and \u201cA Prayer for a Wanderer\u201d from the books about parenting young adults and adult children, and this time thought I\u2019d share \u201cA Prayer for Obedience\u201d from the book about parenting young children. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":37032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-37029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-quotes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/matthew-henry-kX9lb7LUDWc-unsplash-1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37034,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37029\/revisions\/37034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}