In August over 2,000 men prayed for their wives. We saw the Lord do (and continue to do) many things in our lives. It is not only our wives that we are called to pray for. Men and women alike are called to pray for their sons. Therefore, on October 1st we will be launching the Pray For Your Son: 31 Day Challenge.
Just as with the P4W challenge this will help our prayers to have a FACE:
- Focus—I need to know what specifically to pray for my son or I’ll just keep praying the same things over and over again.
- Accountability—I need a group of people to keep me accountable and remind me daily to passionately pray for my son.
- Challenge—I need to be challenged to go deeper in the way that I pray for my son. A community of others praying will help shape my prayers.
- Encouragement—Sometimes we pray for things and God’s answer is slower than we like. We need encouragement to keep praying.
If you also need these things and want to pray for your son, here are steps to join.
First, join the Pray For Your Son: 31 Day Challenge Facebook group. It is a closed group so you’ll have to ask for an invite. If you have any problems email me ( mike [at] fbjasper [dot] org )
Secondly, get the word out. Retweet this post. Invite friends. Like it on Facebook. Do whatever you can to involve more and more men AND women. (Yes, ladies, one of the reasons I wanted to do this was to involve many of our female readers).
Lastly, volunteer. I will not be writing all of these prayers. That is were you come in. If you want to help write a few prayers for your son, then sign up.
How Will it Work?
Every day I will post a particular focus for our prayers along with a sample prayer. You can comment with your own prayers, etc. Also you will be challenged to “like” that status if you prayed for your son that day, as a means of accountability. My hope is that we create a little community where we can pray for our sons, share our concerns, pray for one another as parents, etc.
I also would love to share testimonies of what the Lord does through our prayers for our sons.
Don’t worry if your son is 5 months old or 65 years old. He still needs prayer. (Also, don’t worry—we’ll be doing a pray for your daughter challenge in the coming months as well).
Will you join us?
Again, I answer as I did about praying for my wife. I pray for my son everyday, in the morning during my private devotion time, again at breakfast in my thanks for the meal, the same for lunch, and dinner or supper, and then in the evening devotion time with my wife. My prayer also includes our daughter-in-law and grand daughter, daughter, grandson, great grandson and special requests for sick or troubled individuals. I also remember the members of many churches and many ministers during my private devotion, mentioning their names, and, if known, the difficulties that the might be experiencing. That anyone would not remember family members on a daily basis is beyond me. While I do not always get to have private devotion time, like this morning, when our son took me to see my heart doctor (a good report, I add here). My greatest concern, often expressed not only in private devotion but also at meal times is for a Third Great Awakening. Lately, I have specified 6 cities and one small village, namely, New York, D.C., Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and Nimmons, Arkansas (village where I attended church as a child and which has no church now), and their surrounding areas, and this in this month and October and November to such an extent that even the mass media cannot overlook it, that is, a movement of the Spirit of God in those places for the glory of Christ and the salvation of souls. I have also added a prayer for the conversion of a whole nation in one 24 hr. period of night and day, namely, Saudi Arabia, since it is financing the building of so many mosques in America. However, for that I have not put any time period to it. For the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Third Great Awakening which reaches the whole earth and every soul upon it, beginning, hopefully, in this generation and continuing for a 1000 generations and reaching a million billion planets in the next 20,000 to 900,000 years, God willing. All to fulfill the prophecies which I plead as promises, namely, the stone that becomes a great mountain and fills the whole earth, the flooding of the earth with His knowledge and glory as the waters that cover the sea, that the promise of all the families being blessed in the seed of Abraham might be fulfilled, along with the Nations remembering and turning unto the Lord, the model prayer of God’s kingdom coming and His will being done on earth under these circumstances as it is being done in Heaven.