How to Pray for Your Children by Erwin E. Prange

Submitted by Judy Schmelzle

I get many donations to the home school library each year. Most donations I placed on the shelves but occasionally I decide that a particular book might be best on the give away shelf or maybe even the trash can. However, I decided to read this book before making the final decision.

This book, How to Pray for Your Children,  gives the why and how of interceding for your children. Lam. 2: 19 states Arise, cry out in the night  pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to Him for the lives of your children.

This book is about family covenant prayer based on Acts 16: 31, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved and your household.  On page 62 it talks about the wholeness of salvation and exactly what the word soteria, the Greek word for salvation, means.

Chapter 6 talks about World War II. The author had served in the military during the war. He had wondered for years about the many miracles of that war: the Dunkirk Evacuation,  why Germany turned away from totally destroying Britian, the Normandy invasion, the defeat of the Afrika Korps at the gates of Cairo, and  Germanys mistakes in Russia. The author found out the answers to his questions when he was given a book entitled, Rees Howells Intercessor by Norman Grubb. This man Rees Howells and his school of intercessors prayed every night for five years about the war and God did intervene in the affairs of mankind during World War II.

So if God can change the outcome of history through intercessory prayer, He can change the outcome of your childrens lives. God can turn the outcome of your homeschooling and parenting attempts into good. You only have to pray!