{"id":89043,"date":"2025-07-15T19:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/club31women.com\/?p=89043"},"modified":"2025-07-15T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T02:59:43","slug":"a-peek-at-my-own-personal-prayers-for-my-marriage-and-for-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/club31women.com\/a-peek-at-my-own-personal-prayers-for-my-marriage-and-for-our-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peek at My Own Personal Prayers for My Marriage and for Our Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Create a personal prayer plan to overcome overwhelm, pray with purpose, and cover your family with focused prayers each day of the week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed when you try to pray? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are so many needs in our own families as well as with our friends, our country, our world. It\u2019s hard to know how to begin. It\u2019s easy to feel like a failure before we even begin to pray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several years ago, I realized that I needed a plan that would enable me to be more organized in my prayer life. My husband John had always had a prayer notebook with different prayers for each day. He suggested I might try something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bought a very simple small notebook and some sticky dividers to enable me to create a section for each day of the week. I choose a theme for each day for our immediate family, creating a prayer around this theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondays<\/em> I pray about our relationships with the Lord, inserting names into the Lord\u2019s prayer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesdays<\/em> I pray for our marriages, Wednesdays<\/em> for close accountable Christian friendships, Thursdays<\/em>, for boldness in proclaiming the gospel, Fridays<\/em> for each of our families to be given a passion for the poor, lonely and hurting and a means in which to care for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each year we ask our five children and their mates to send us very specific prayer requests for each of them and their children for the coming year. We want to know what\u2019s on their hearts for their kids in order to pray more specifically for them. Each family is assigned a day on which I can focus on that family. I glue these notes from the parents into my prayer journal. My notebook has additional pages where I list the names of friends, our church staff, extended family, our country, special needs. I\u2019m always adding things to my notes and checking things off. Spreading this out over a week enables me to be more focused and less overwhelmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I want to share with my Tuesday <\/em>prayers for our marriages. (We have 5 married children and then John and me, so I am praying this for the 12 of us)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Father,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have called all 12 of us into marriage. It was your creation that <\/em>you <\/em><\/strong>might be glorified Lord. Please protect and deepen our unions. Give to each of us:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n