Warrior Prayers...Day Five

Prayers for Day Five…

I might have to stop on this day and pray it over and over for my oldest son.  Those of you who have lived through puberty with your sons understand what I am talking about…because 13 year old boy equals foolish. 

Foolish behavior is annoying.  To God, foolishness is much more. Jesus listed foolishness among the 13 things that corrupt or defile a person in Mark 7:21-23: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes: obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart.   [Don’t you just love that description?!!?!]   There is the source of your pollution." (The Message) 

We are not raising fools.  We are raising warriors.  Battles have never been won by the class clown, the joker, the man who scoffs at knowledge & authority.  Battles are won by men who love righteousness, cherish wisdom and submit to authority.  Our sons are on the front lines.  Let’s pray for them to lay down foolishness and take up the full armor of God.

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

Avoiding Foolishness

May __________ avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless (Titus 3:9).

May __________ have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; for they breed quarrels (2 Timothy 2:23).

May __________ not participate in filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving (Ephesians 5:4).

May __________ hear these words of Yours, act on them, and avoid being like a foolish man who built his house on the sand (Matthew 7:26).

May __________ be more like a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knows how to take advice (Ecclesiastes 4:13).

May __________ not be foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures (Titus 3:3).

May __________ leave the presence of a fool, for there he will not meet words of knowledge (Proverbs 14:7).

May __________ not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is (Ephesians 5:17).

May our sons be like a poor person who walks in his integrity rather than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool (Proverbs 19:1).

May __________ have a wise man’s heart inclining him to the right, and not a fool’s heart inclining to the left (Ecclesiastes 10:2).