Praying With and for Our Children

When teaching kids to pray, Nancy Guthrie admits that thank you’s dominate, and requests follow. Her desire is to see children grounded in the Scriptures and practicing real prayer. This requires that children understand who God is, which will help them move into prayers of confession–an aspect often missing in most family prayer times. Kids follow what we do more than what we say. If we want our kids to have an intimate relationship with God, we need to model that. Guthrie recalls a season in her parenting when she realized she was worrying a lot more than praying. She realized her desires needed to be shaped by the Word of God, and by using the Scriptures, parents pray for even deeper things.