Bethany House Partner Review: Bible Promises and Prayers for Children

 This book is a cute little hardback book on praying for and with your children. There are 31 days to pray through. Each day begins with a thought for the parents to read, followed by scripture verses, then a sample prayer to insert your child's name into, and then a page to share with your child that contains: ask, pray, declare, do. This aspect connects to what the parents have read.

Some observations:

1) I must admit that I didn't realize this was a 'chosen' book from Baker publishing, meaning it is their charismatic division. And I suspect because of this theological foundation, I may be missing some of the implied concepts- especially around some of their buzzwords like a declaration.

2) the book to be used with your children seems to only be applicable to children who are already believers and walking with the Lord, the premise behind the shared page, thoughts, and prayers seem to be for those who are walking in faith, which may not be the experience of all the readers who use this tool.

3) I like that each day has scripture verses to connect to the concept discussed, but I am not sure that all of the verses are accurate to the concepts when taken in the context of the passages.

4) The child's page has a declare statement- and while this is something I have taught and has been a central doctrine in my faith, as it seems to be in the author's lives, I like it. I find it very valuable for children, especially those from a hard place/trauma, when we had a child like this in our family for five years, I really developed this type of statement for him to change the lies in his head to truth statements, and it was key for him to repeat, recite, repeat them to help him change his mindset and behavior. I think that whether your faith is charismatic or not, this perspective is valuable in the world and culture we live in, that tries to subtly spread lies and twist our thinking toward sin instead of God's truth.

Thankful to partner with Bethany House Publishers- a division of Baker books and review a copy of this book. I haven't finished it all but wanted to start to share my thoughts as I continue to read through the 31 days.