Last Updated on January 25, 2025
As moms, we’re given an incredible job by God to nurture, guide, and love on our children. One of the most powerful ways we can do this? By supporting our kids through prayer—lifting them up before the Lord and asking Him to protect, strengthen, and guide them in every season of their lives!
In this post, we’ve compiled a whole new collection of short but meaningful prayers, each paired with a Bible verse to encourage your heart and lift your children in prayer. These prayers are simple enough to say throughout the day but powerful enough to impact your child’s spiritual journey. Whether you’re praying for their character, their future, or their protection, let these prayers serve as a reminder of God’s love and faithfulness over their lives.
You can find Part 1 of our Mom Prayers series right here: 46 Short, Powerful Mom Prayers to Pray Over Your Kids
A Prayer for Confidence
Father, I pray my child’s hope is found in you.
“ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Romans 15:13
A Prayer for Gifts and Talents
Father God, I pray my children will grow in the gifting You have given them. Make their callings clear.
“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.” – 1 Corinthians 12:4-6
Prayer about God’s love
Father, I pray my child knows that God’s love never gives up.
“ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.” – 1 Corinthians 13:8-12
Sharing the love of God
God, I praise you and thank you for your never ending love. Show me one thing I can do, say or share today that communicates Your love to my child.
“We love because he first loved us.” – 1 John 4:19
A prayer to live like Jesus
God, help me love life, guard my tongue, seek peace and pursue Your blessed assurance.
““Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.” – 1 Peter 3:10-11
A short prayer for anxiety
Father, thank you for your care of me and my family. Relieve me of any anxiety.
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” – 1 Peter 5:7
Prayer for your child’s character
God, may my child be an encourager.
“Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:11
A Prayer for Salvation
Father, when my child is in great need, please save them.
“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” – Zephaniah 3:17
A Prayer for Endurance
Father, help us to steward all the things you have given us, working hard with excellence.
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Ephesians 2:10
A Prayer for Purpose
Lord, help my children to know what you have uniquely equipped each one of them to do for Your Kingdom.
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” – Ephesians 2:10
A Prayer for Protection
Lord, save my child. Hear my child’s prayer.
“Lord, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you. May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.” – Psalm 88:1-2
