A Prayer for Moms (WJM)

Lord, we pray for Your encouragement of mothers.

This role You have given them, first to physically bear the children,

And then to nurture and care for and raise their children

is so demanding, yet so important. 

We pray that you shower the gifts of Your Spirit on mothers

That You enable them to be kind and gentle with their children

When they have been frustrated and pushed to their limit

That You equip them to be patient and long-suffering with immature behaviors

Even when those behaviors last for years and come from large bodies.

We pray You grant mothers an extra measure of self-control when they need it the most.

And to cover it all, Lord, we pray that You enable mothers and grandmothers to love their children in a special way that only they can, and in circumstances when their children are not acting loveable, and that you recharge their capacity for love hour after hour for the days, months, years and indeed lifetimes that their mothering will go on.

And we pray that through it all, mothers will remain faithful to rely on You and trust in You that You will make their ‘mothering” paths straight and that You will be the Father guiding and leading their children, just as You are the Father guiding and leading them. 

We pray these things in Jesus name, Amen.

Bill Monnette

Mothers' Day Prayer of Thanksgiving (DD)

Father,

Thank you that you give us exceeding great and precious promises.  For a promise is a chance to trust in you while we wait to surely obtain something of great value….   Our first parents believed the demonic message that you were selfish and withheld your blessings.   The first born of the human race believed demonic message of envy: that his he was robbed because someone else was blessed.  And rather than obtaining what they sought, they and all their posterity became laden with the twin fruits of demonic pride: fear and envy.  And ever since we have both faithfully clung to this fruit and been sorely oppressed by their resulting hopelessness and despair. 

But thank you that you saved us in Christ, who delivers us from these scourges.  Thank you for the promise in the verse, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.”  Thank you further, that you give us the same task our first parents failed at:  The need to trust and wait on you, to be faithful while we wait on your promises and blessings.

Mothers' Day Prayer of Thanksgiving 2017 (JP)

Our Heavenly Father, Creator of all that is, the Holy One who declares the end from the beginning, You are the God of order and not disorder.  And so we thank you for establishing motherhood and for creating women to perfectly fill the role of Mothers.

You have endowed them to be nurturers, patient, compassionate, filled with unquestioned love, willing to give their life in an instant for the life of their child, able to do multiple things with children under foot or on a hip.  Things that would cause most of us men to be pulling our hair out.

I thank you for mothers that surrender their own hopes and dreams for the good of their children.