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Spirit to help your child make right choices, choices for life, every day.
    10. Pray out loud the prayer on pages 160–161 in T HE P OWER OF A P RAYING P ARENT . Include specifics about your child’s ability to resist temptation of any kind.

 

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Read Chapter 24: “Rejecting Sexual Immorality” from T HE P OWER OF A P RAYING P ARENT
    1. Read 1 Peter 2:11 and underline it in your Bible. Are the consequences of sexual sin manifested only in the body? _____________. Where else in your child will there be damage from sexual sin? ______________. From your own experience or the experience of others you know, can you think of an example where wholeness of the soul was sacrificed because of giving place to the lust of the flesh? _______________________. Explain.
    2. When we or our children have sexual sin in our lives, the fullness of ____________________, _____________________, ____________________, and ____________________________ is sacrificed. (See page 164 of T HE P OWER OF A P RAYING P ARENT .)
    3. Read Proverbs 28:26 and underline it in your Bible. In light of this scripture, how should we pray for our children?
    4. Read James 1:12 and underline it in your Bible. Write this as a prayer over your child’s life. Remember that even if your child has already stumbled into sexual immorality, you can pray for him (her) to live in sexual purity from now on.
    5. Are you convinced of the need for sexual purity in your life and the lives of your children? __________. Explain why or why not.
    6. Write out a prayer for yourself that you will never succumb to a trap of the enemy and fall into sexual immorality, including your thought life. (If there is any sexual immorality you have committed, speak a confession of it to the Lord so that the enemy has no grounds to have a place in your life.)
    7. Read James 1:14-15 and underline it in your Bible. According to this scripture, how could your child be tempted? _________________________. What can happen if he (she) is?
    8. Read Galatians 5:16-21 and underline it in your Bible. How are we to walk? ___________________. How are we not to walk? _____________________. List the works of the flesh and pray that your child avoid each one. Even a small child can manifest a seed that could grow into any one of these if it is not stamped out in prayer.
    9. Read Galatians 5:22-23 and underline it in your Bible. Write out a prayer asking God to help your child exhibit all of these fruits of the Spirit. Mention each one specifically.
    10. Pray out loud the prayer on pages 165–166 in T HE P OWER OF A P RAYING P ARENT . Include specifics about your child.

 

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Read Chapter 25: “Finding the Perfect Mate” from T HE P OWER OF A P RAYING P ARENT
    1. Read Psalm 127:1 and underline it in your Bible. According to this scripture, why is it important that your child hear from God about who he (she) is to marry?
    2. Read Malachi 2:13-16 and underline verse 16 in your Bible. Why were the people crying at the altar of the Lord? ___________________. Why did God no longer accept their offering? ___________________.Why does He make a husband and wife to be one? ___________________. How does God feel about divorce and why?
    3. Read Proverbs 12:26 and underline it in your Bible. In light of this scripture, how should you pray for your child’s relationships? Remember, marriages begin as simple relationships.
    4. Read 2 Corinthians 6:14 and underline it in your Bible. What kind of mate do you need to pray for your child to marry? _________________________. Write out a prayer for your child to that effect.
    5. Read 1 John 1:7 and underline it in your Bible. In order for your child to have the kind of close relationship needed to make a marriage work, what does he (she) need to have in common with his (her) mate? _________________. Write out a prayer to that effect.
    6. Has there been divorce anywhere in your family? If so, write out a prayer asking God to break that spirit