If my child were on trial for a crime, and the punishment was the death penalty, and I were allowed into the courtroom to intercede on their behalf…I would become a student of the law. I would have urgency and boldness. I would stand before that judge with a stack of papers declaring – “In this year, on this day, at this time, in this case, THIS was the law established! DO IT FOR MY CHILD!!”

How much more so when it’s ALL my children to face judgment, and the penalty on the table is not just the death of their physical lives, but death of their eternal souls; and I have the power to intercede on their behalf.

The courtroom is the throne of God.
The Judge is the Lord.
The law is Scripture.

God is a covenant-keeping, faithful God; and in Scripture I see Him repeatedly revealing His heart to display His glory in our offspring and our descendants after us for the sake of His Holy Name.

He seeks godly offspring and wants to bless the fruit of our womb. He doesn’t want us to vainly bear children for calamity. He’s not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

His covenant, blessing, and peace is for us and for our descendants after us.

He says “You and your children,” “I will save your children,” “all your children shall be taught by the Lord,” and “the promise is to you and to your children.”

He reveals His heart when He tells the Israelites He will establish His covenant between Himself and them, and their descendants after them, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to them and their descendants after them.

He says He will pour His Spirit on their descendants and His blessing on their offspring, causing them to spring up like willows by the watercourses.

He wants to make an everlasting covenant of peace. Where He establishes and multiplies, setting His sanctuary in our midst forevermore. Where He is our God and we are His people. Where He doesn’t turn away from doing good for us. Where He puts His fear in our hearts so that we don’t depart from Him.

Part of His everlasting covenant is for the descendants and offspring to be known as the prosperity whom the Lord has blessed, descendants of the blessed of the Lord and their offspring with them. It’s all for the glory and power of His name.

Just like with Noah, He wants to move us to godly fear to build an ark for the saving of our household.

Just like with the Israelites, He wants there to be “a lamb for a household” – one sacrifice sufficient to make the angel of death pass over our homes. The Lord grants mercy to the household, where the whole household can fear God and be saved.

What God does for us is not just for our good, but also for the good of our children after us. He can circumcise not just our hearts, but also the hearts of our descendants to love Him so that we may live.

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, to such who keep His covenant and those who remember His commandments and do them.

As we pray for the salvation of our children, we can pray with boldness. And by boldness I don’t mean an emotion conjured up in an effort to convince God. It’s more about the changing of ourselves – that we can be so convinced through Scripture of God’s will that we can stand assuredly in His presence knowing we are asking for something that delights Him.

Galatians 4:19 references a parent-like heart who is again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in them. I know the work and pain of childbirth. Am I putting that same effort in to see Christ formed in my children? What would this look like?

Are we fighting with all of our power?

And then are we praying for more urgency to fight harder?

How do our homes look any different than the world?

How is our time spent?

What time do we devote to prayer and Scripture?

What time do we as mothers rise in the morning?

How are we purging ourselves from all that would hinder our prayers?

Can we safely say to our children as Paul, “Imitate me as I imitate Christ”?

Are we praying as Jesus did in John 17, “Sanctify me for their sakes”?

What if the Spirit that is upon you were transferred to your children?

As with Esther, perhaps we have come to this position as parent for such a task as this.

Like Moses, have we been given the right to stand in the breach for the sakes of our children?

I know if my children seek the Lord it will be by the grace of God and not by my hands. BUT I also know God has placed certain spiritual laws into effect and when I pray I can stand on His truth, His character, and His revealed will, all for the sake of His Holy Name.

I don’t know the intricacies between each person choosing their own faith vs. the Lord turning their hearts towards Him, but it’s in Scripture so I pray it.

Nations know He is the Lord when He is hallowed in us. Therefore He sprinkles clean water on us so that we are cleansed from our filthiness. He gives us a new heart and puts a new spirit within us, taking out our heart of stone and giving us a heart of flesh. He can put His Spirit within us and cause us to walk in His statues and to keep His judgments. Making us His people as He is our God, delivering us from all uncleanness.

I pray that God would stir the hearts of our children. I pray He would give them eyes to see, ears to hear, and minds to understand. I pray He would make them holy, cause them to delight in His ways, and walk according to His commandments with upright hearts.  I pray He would hold them in His grasp and would shorten the arm of the enemy so that it couldn’t reach them. I pray He would lead them and be their rearguard.

And I pray that He would do such a work in my children that great glory is brought to His Name, from this time forth and forevermore!

“As for Me,” says the LORD, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the LORD, “from this time and forevermore.” (Isaiah 59:21)

“For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the LORD, “So shall your descendants and your name remain.” (Isaiah 66:22)