Praying Circles around Your Children by Mark Batterson

Author:Mark Batterson [Batterson, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-310-32051-7
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Prayer Posters

A few years ago, our friends Dennis and Donna, who pastor a neighboring church on Capitol Hill, told us about something God had impressed on them to do for their children. They identified words that were descriptive and prescriptive of their kids, had these words framed, and hung them on the walls in their rooms. They often wondered whether those words meant anything, but their oldest daughter, who is grown-up and no longer in their home, recently told them that some nights, when she hadn’t been able to fall asleep, she would look at those words on the wall and they would speak to her. Those framed words started to frame her. She started to see herself in the light of her God-ordained identity and destiny.

Lora and I loved the idea so much that we adapted it for Summer. Prior to Summer’s thirteenth birthday, Lora recruited two of Summer’s aunts to help her come up with a list of prophetic words to speak into Summer’s life. Each of them took three words and discussed them over a special birthday dinner. Then we had a graphic designer turn those nine words into a poster. Each word is rendered in a different font, and these different fonts represent nine different dimensions of her identity, her destiny. These nine words are nine prayers that we’ll pray for Summer for the rest of her life. It’s a prayer list with a creative twist. Sometimes I’ll go into Summer’s room and use the poster as my prayer list. I also have a picture of it on my phone.

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