Warrior Prayers...Day Seven

Prayers for Day Seven…

Purity is old-fashioned. 

Thank the Lord for the old-fashioned virtue of purity.  Purity of heart, purity of mind, sexual purity.  That’s what I desire for all of my children.  That’s what I desire for the future spouses of my children.  That’s what I desire for me. 

I assure you, if you don’t talk about purity with your precious children, they will not remain pure.  The world will bombard them with sexual imagery and lies.  You speaking truth to them in this area is their only hope.    God has entrusted your sons to you and it is your job to take every opportunity to remind them that they are the temple of God and that God tells them “keep yourself pure” (1 Timothy 5:22)

I encourage you to read two books:  Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot and Lady in Waiting by Jackie Kendall & Debby Jones.  I read both of these books when I was in college and wished I had read them in high school.  The timeless truths located in the pages of these books will help us as we parent our children through the years of their lives when there hormones are out of control and they are being bombarded with all sorts of sexual imagery from every direction. 

“Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body…You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18, 20

Commit to praying the following prayers for your sons or grandsons today.

Purity

May __________have love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith (1 Timothy 1:5).

May __________hope in God and thus purify himself (1 John 3:3).

May __________have religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unstained from the world (James 1:27).

May __________think on whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, may he think about these things (Philippians 4:8).

May __________be like the pure in heart, for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8).

May there be no violence in __________'s hands, and his prayer be pure (Job 16:17).

May __________be pure, because even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright (Proverbs 20:11).

May __________'s love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that he may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ (Philippians 1:9-10).

How can__________ keep his way pure? By guarding it according to God’s Word (Psalm 119:9).

May__________ be blameless and innocent, a child of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation (Philippians 2:15).