3 Prayers for Prodigals & Off-Track Kids

PrayerChristian LifeCalling
Written By Germaine Copeland

Someone Needing Salvation

My Prayer

Before you pray, take a minute to pinpoint the scriptures used in this prayer. It will bolster your faith to pray! Then insert the name of the person you’re praying for in the blanks, and take your prayer to the throne room.

Father, I come before You to stand in the gap and pray for _______ who is lost and without You. I pray in agreement with Jesus who is able to save to the uttermost those who come to You through Him because He always lives to make intercession for them.

_______ mind is blinded by the god of this world, the devil. So I take a stand against these unseen spirits who have held this person in darkness and bondage and break the devil’s power to blind his/ her mind in Jesus’ name. I pray _______ is delivered from the power of darkness and comes to the kingdom of the Son of Your love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. May Your brilliant light shine out of darkness and cascade into them that they might see the knowledge of grace and truth.

When the Light shines out of darkness, _______ will hear the Good News of the gospel. He/she will call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. He/she will receive Jesus and come out of the snare of the devil who has held them captive.

Thank You, Father, for sending laborers across _______ path with the truth. He/she shall open his/her eyes and turn from darkness to light— from the power of Satan to Jesus. In Jesus’ name, amen.

God’s Word Speaking to Me

Hebrews 7:25 NKJV - 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 TPT - 1 Corinthians 10:3-5 NLT - Romans 15:21 AMPC - Matthew 9:38 - 2 Timothy 2:26 AMPC - Colossians 1:13 NKJV - 2 Peter 3:8-10 TPT - Ephesians 1:17-19 AMPC - Romans 10:9-10 - Isaiah 54:13 - Psalm 2:8

Action

A Declaration of Faith! I’ll start, and you finish!

Through the eye of faith, I see _______ born again and walking with Jesus all the days of his or her life. And…

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My Praise Report

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My Child’s Destiny

Children are a gift from the Lord…. (Psalm 127:3 TLB).

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it (Proverbs 22:6 NIV).

God’s Word Speaking to Me

Psalm 127:3 - Isaiah 54:13 - Luke 2:52 - Psalm 119:99 - Romans 12:2 - Isaiah 55:11 - Proverbs 3:4 - Proverbs 22:6 - Ephesians 6:1-4 - Colossians 3:20 - Deuteronomy 6:7 - Ephesians 4:27 - Romans 12:11 VOICE - Psalm 37:3 TPT - Ephesians 2:10 TPT - Matthew 18:18 - 2 Corinthians 2:11 - John 14:13 - 2 Timothy 2:26 - Psalm 91:1,11 - John 14:26 - Deuteronomy 28:8,13 - Romans 12:1-2 - 3 John 2

Reflection

Deuteronomy 6:7-9

Take a look at Deuteronomy 6 in the three Bible versions below. These verses tell you how to build God’s Word in your children so it will lead them to their destinies.

“Write these commandments that I’ve given you today on your hearts. Get them inside of you and then get them inside your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning to when you fall into bed at night. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder; inscribe them on the doorposts of your homes and on your city gates” (MSG).

“You must teach them to your children and talk about them when you are at home or out for a walk; at bedtime and the first thing in the morning” (TLB).

“Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you’re sitting together in your home and when you’re walking together down the road. Make them the last thing you talk about before you go to bed and the first thing you talk about the next morning” (VOICE).

My Prayer

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My Praise Report

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My Teen on Track

He [God] will return parents’ hearts to their children and children’s hearts to their parents…. (Malachi 4:6).

Voice Intelligent children listen to their parents; foolish children do their own thing (Proverbs 13:1 MSG).

…Don’t squander your precious life (Proverbs 8:32 MSG).

God’s Word Speaking to Me

Proverbs 8:6-7 - 1 Peter 5:7 - Proverbs 8:32 MSG – Proverbs 22:6 MSG - Psalm 37:4 - Isaiah 1:19 - John 14:6 - Isaiah 54:13 - Ephesians 6:1-3 - 2 Corinthians 5:18-19 - 1 John 1:9 - Colossians 3:21 TLB, MSG - Proverbs 15:31 TLB, GW - Isaiah 61:1 - John 16:13 - Jeremiah 1:12 - Proverbs 13:1 TLB - Ephesians 4:31-32 - Malachi 4:6 - Psalm 37:23 - 2 Corinthians 4:4 - Ephesians 1:16-21 AMPC - Ephesians 2:10 AMPC - Psalm 37: 5 Voice - Romans 12:1-2 - Philippians 1:9-19 AMPC - Ephesians 3:14-21 AMPC

My Prayer

I’ll start, and you finish!

Dear Father, I affirm Your Word over _______. I commit my son/daughter to You and delight myself in You. Thank You for delivering him/her out of rebellion and into your perfect will for his/her life.

_______ steps are ordered, and he/she will walk in your perfect will—the steps you’ve arranged for him/her to live the good life.

The first commandment with a promise is to the child who obeys his/her parents in the Lord. You said that all will be well with him/her, and he/she will live long on the earth. I affirm this promise on behalf of my child, asking You to give _______ an obedient spirit that he/she may honor, esteem, and value us as parents. He/she will not squander precious life! Father, forgive me for mistakes made out of my own unresolved hurts or selfishness, which may have caused hurt. I release the anointing that is upon Jesus to bind up and heal our broken hearts (mine and my son/daughter’s). Give us the ability to understand and forgive one another, as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven us. Thank You for the Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth.

Father, I also pray…

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My Praise Report

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Germaine Copeland

Germaine Griffin Copeland, founder and president of Word Ministries, Inc., is the author of the Prayers That Avail Much family of books. Her writings provide scriptural prayer instruction to help you pray more effectively for those things that concern you and your family and for other prayer assignments. Her teachings on prayer, the personal growth on the intercessor, emotional healing and related subjects have brought understanding, hope, healing, and liberty to the discouraged and emotionally wounded. She is a woman of prayer and praise whose highest form of worship is the study of God's Word. Her greatest desire is to know God. Germaine is the daughter of the late Reverend A.H. "Buck" and Donnis Brock Griffin. She and her husband, Everette, have four children, and their prayer assignments increase as grandchildren and great-grandchildren are born. Germaine and Everette reside in Greensboro, Georgia.

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