New Life Ranch is about more than just a great experience for your child, it’s also an opportunity for God to work in his or her heart in life-changing ways. While you may not physically be here with your child, you can stay close by spiritually supporting him or her through prayer. To help you with this, we’re including a series of parents’ prayers on our blog this summer. A new prayer will be posted every Monday and each one will tie into this summer’s “change agent” theme. You’ll be able to access the other prayers in the series so we invite you to keep coming back. We want the work God begins in your child’s heart to continue long after he or she returns home. Thanks for joining us in asking God to make your child a “change agent” for His Kingdom this summer and for a lifetime.

I praise You because You made me in an amazing and wonderful way.

What You have done is wonderful. I know this very well.

Psalm 139:14 ICB

Lord,

The world tries to tell us who we are and how we should look.

And yet we know our true identity can only come from You.

I pray as my child is growing and changing

he would keep Your perspective on who he truly is.

May he not be influenced by messages that

seek to tear him down or tell him to be someone else.

Instead, may he live in the truth and have confidence

that comes from knowing he is Yours.

This summer as he experiences new things

I pray You will build him up from the inside.

Give him eyes that see the gifts You’ve placed within him.

Give him ears that can receive encouragement from others.

Give him a heart that is strong, courageous, and bold.

I pray for protection from peer pressure

and ask instead for You to use my child

to be a light to those around him.

Thank You for making my child in an amazing

and wonderful way that becomes

even more obvious with each year that goes by.

Amen.

To read the other Parents’ Prayers  click here.

Holley Gerth is an award-winning writer and Editorial Director for DaySpring with over ten years of experience in the publishing industry. She’s the author of over 2,000 cards, as well as several devotionals, articles, journals, and children’s books. She just published her first devotional book, Rain on Me: Devotions of Hope and Encouragement for Difficult Times. Holley is receiving a masters degree in counseling, and she’s passionate about bringing hope to the hearts of women. You’re invited to visit her online at Heart to Heart with Holley.