Prayer to become a praying parent

Dear Lord,

I submit myself to You. I desire to do Your will for my life. Thank You for giving me this burden to be a prayer warrior. I realize parenting a child in the way You would have me to is beyond my human abilities. I need Your help. I want to partner with You and partake of Your gifts of wisdom, discernment, revelation, and guidance. I also need Your strength and patience, along with a generous portion of Your love flowing through me. Teach me how to love the way You love. I do not want to provoke my children to wrath (Ephesians 6:4) but desire to bring them up in the training and admonition of You. Proverbs 20:7 says the righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him. Lord, I know I can only be righteous through You. Where I need to be healed, delivered, changed, matured, or made whole, I invite You to do that in me. Help me to walk in righteousness and integrity before You. Teach me Your ways, enable me to obey Your commandments and do only what is pleasing in Your sight. May the beauty of Your Spirit be so evident in me that I will be a godly role model. Give me the communication, teaching, and nurturing skills that I must have. Make me the parent You want me to be and teach me how to pray and truly intercede for the lives of [name child(ren)]. Lord, You said in Your Word, "Whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." (Matthew 21:22). In Jesus' name I ask that You will increase my faith to believe for all the things You've put on my heart to pray for concerning [name child(ren)]. Amen.

(Adapted from The Power of a Praying Parent by Stormie Omartian)

Prayer to submit our parenting inadequacies to God

Lord,

You know our inadequacies. You know our weaknesses, not only in parenting, but in every area of our lives. We are doing the best we can and we know it is not good enough. As You broke the fishes and the loaves, now take our meager efforts and use them to bless our family. Make up for the things we do wrong. Satisfy the needs that we have not satisfied. Wrap Your great arms around our children, and draw them close to You. And be there when they stand at the great crossroads between right and wrong. We humbly submit to You our children and ourselves and the job we are dong as parents.

In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

(From Dr. Jame Dobson (book TBA as soon as I figure it out))