To cultivate a more prayerfully minded life by using a daily prayer guide, reading a daily prayer blog and reading a prayer article once a week.
Well along those lines my wife and I have covenanted together to read one chapter of Proverbs a day and pray for wisdom for our children (two teenage boys). So today I read Proverbs 4 here is part of what I read.
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight. Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown." Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
(Pro 4:1-13)
These verses clearly extol the value of wisdom in the life of the young (and old for that matter). Wisdom is a protector, a clear path, a lover, a prize, a key to long and fruitful life. I certainly want these things for my sons and it was easy to pray that they would get, guard, and love wisdom. The real convicting part of those verses for me in my own life is the entire tone of the passage of a father constantly teaching and imparting wisdom to his sons. I also prayed that God would make me the kind of father who intentionally teaches and imparts godly wisdom to his children.
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