Heavenly Father,
I come to You today with a grateful heart to give You thanks for the gift of mothers. I thank You for the love and sacrifice that they pour out daily, for the guidance and wisdom they provide, and for the strength and support they offer.
I ask that You bless my mother, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I pray for Your healing hand to touch any area of her life that is in need. Give her Your peace and joy in the midst of any trials she may be facing.
I ask that You give her wisdom as she raises and guides her children, and that You would be her rock and her refuge. I pray for Your protection over her and for Your provision for all her needs.
I also ask that You help me to honor and respect my mother, as commanded in Your Word. Help me to be grateful for her and to show her love in word and deed.
I pray all this in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Suggested Bible Readings
Proverbs 31:28-29 ESV
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
“Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.”
Isaiah 49:15 ESV
“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
Psalm 113:9 ESV
He gives the barren woman a home,
making her the joyous mother of children.
Praise the Lord!
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
for they are a graceful garland for your head
and pendants for your neck.
Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Proverbs 23:25 ESV
Let your father and mother be glad;
let her who bore you rejoice.
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