Heavenly Father,
We come before You today to lift up our families to You. We ask that You bless each member of our family, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Protect them from harm and give them Your peace. Give us the strength and wisdom to fulfill our roles as parents, children, and siblings, as You have called us to be.
Help us to love one another as You have loved us, and to forgive as You have forgiven us. We pray for unity and harmony within our families, and for the bonds of love to be strengthened. We trust in Your plan for our families and ask that You guide us in the way You want us to go.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Suggested Bible Readings
Exodus 20:12 ESV
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Mark 10:6-9 ESV
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
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.”