Declaring God’s Word over your Children

Declaring God’s Word over Your Children

When you are declaring God’s word over your children the warrior angels are on notice and the demons will run in fear. Your power and authority you have over your children is not something you want to take lightly. It’s an amazing honor that God entrusted YOU with.

There is a reason God blessed us with the children we have. It is to raise them in the knowledge and love of our Father and to protect them. Not only physically but also spiritually.

After I came back to the Lord and started going to church my eyes were open to the power of God’s word and how important it was for me to Declare God’s word over my children. Before I met my husband I was a single mom and I had the awesome opportunity to take my children to school every morning, so during the car ride, they always heard me declaring God’s word over them.

I bet if you asked them to this day what I spoke over them they could probably repeat most of it from memory. 🙂

I was just feeling led to share this with you all because I know sometimes it can be hard figuring out what to pray over our children.

This prayer or declaration if you will, is just the beginning of course. Our children are all so different and need us to pray specific prayers for the battles they are facing.

Our prayers for them cannot be this cookie cutter thing and sometimes it takes some real digging into the scriptures to find the word of God that needs to be declared over them.

The following prayer/declaration is just something I either heard or read along the way, but it stuck with me and is very powerful when spoken with faith.

I’ve highlighted the Declaration/Prayer in bold but have given the scripture reference along the way.

You are the Head and not the Tail
You are above only and not beneath
(Deuteronomy 28:13 – The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.)

You are blessed going in and blessed coming out (Deuteronomy 28:6 – “You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.)
You are empowered to prosper 

I place on you the mind of Christ and you have the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 2:16 – “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” & James 1:5 – “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”)

I plead the blood of Jesus over you from the top of your head to the soles of your feet.
I thank you, Father God for giving your angels charge over them that they would bear them up in their arms lest they dash their feet against a stone. (Psalm 91:11-12 – “For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.”)

I place on you all armor of God
The helmet of Salvation to guard their thoughts
The breastplate of righteousness
I gird up their loins with the belt of truth and shod their feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
In one hand I place the sword of the spirit which is quicker and sharper than any two-edged sword that it would cut to the dividing asunder of spirit and soul
and on the other hand I place the shield of faith to quench every fiery dart the enemy would send their way. (Ephesians 6:13-17 – “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”)

You have been bought with the highest price and that is the blood of Jesus.(I Corinthians 6:20 – “For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which is God’s.”)
You are sealed unto the day of redemption and no plague or calamity shall come near your dwelling.(Psalm 91:10 – “no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.”)

In Jesus name ~ Amen!

Then, of course, I would tell them to have a wonderful day, that I loved them so very much and would see them later. 🙂

Oh, how I miss those days! They are gone way too fast and we never get them back. Throughout the years God has been ever so faithful to my prayers and though two of my children have strayed from the faith, God is faithful and just and is always looking over his word to perform it.

I continue to Declare God’s word over my children, it’s just now in this season of their lives I pray different prayers for each of their situations. 🙂

Below are some of the books I personally used to learn how to pray and declare God’s word not only over my children but also my husband, my friends, my family and even myself.

What books or resources have you used that have been a blessing to you and have helped you to pray God’s word over your children? Is there something you declare over your children every day? Maybe a prayer you pray for them in the morning or night.

Share it with me in the comments below, you never know who it might help.

Be Blessed,
Audrey

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