Prayers for a Teenager Who Is Under Pressure
Lord, forgive me when I place my identity and my child’s identity in her GPA and grades instead of in who you have made her to be in Christ.
Lord, forgive me when I place my identity and my child’s identity in her GPA and grades instead of in who you have made her to be in Christ.
God our Father and Christ our Brother, help us to live as the family you have created us to be for one another.
Lord, I’ve caught my child in their sin. Help me to restore my teen in a spirit of gentleness. Protect me Father, lest I too be tempted.
God Our Refuge, help him to remember and be keenly aware that he is never truly alone. You, our heavenly Father, see him when no one else does.
We can remind our struggling teens that we have a Savior in Jesus Christ who knew quite well how it felt to be friendless.
Jesus Christ took on the anger of the entire world for our sakes, so that we might know anger and yet not be controlled by its self-destructive power.
Root my child to what’s true of them according to Christ; not their peers, not their achievements, not their failings, and not their successes.
Jesus came to redeem and restore all broken relationships—including the ones we and our loved ones have with harmful substances.
I can do little to rescue him, but I can bring him before you, trusting that you are intimately acquainted with his tears and tossings.