Don’t you see that children are God’s best gift?
the fruit of the womb his generous legacy?
Like a warrior’s fistful of arrows
are the children of a vigorous youth.
Oh, how blessed are you parents,
with your quivers full of children!
Your enemies don’t stand a chance against you;
you’ll sweep them right off your doorstep. (Psalm 127:3-5 MSG)
God,
Today is Mother’s Day—a time when we honor and celebrate the powerful influence of mothers in their children’s lives. For many, it is a day of deep joy and gratitude. For others, it brings pain, loss, or longing. Thank you that whether we celebrate with praise or carry sorrow, you are with us.
Today, we lift up all mothers to you:
- We thank you for mothers who have intentionally sought your wisdom, walking in your ways so they can lead their children to know you.
- We thank you for mothers who have persevered through difficult seasons, continuing to be a living example of your love and faithfulness.
- We pray for your comfort, wisdom, and discernment for mothers whose children are not walking in the Way, the Truth, and the Life—Jesus Christ.
- We ask for your provision for mothers in need of work, housing, transportation, or other resources.
- We pray for rest and deep shalom for exhausted and overwhelmed mothers.
- We ask for your grace, strength, and protection over mothers who are single parenting due to death, divorce, or abandonment.
- We lift up mothers caring for children with special needs, or aging parents, and ask for your strength, wisdom, and sustaining grace.
- We pray for the health, safety, and peace of mothers who are currently expecting a child.
- We ask for your comfort and power for mothers whose children are missing, caught in addiction, trafficked, or have severed ties with their families.
- We pray for your peace and fulfillment for women who long to be mothers but, for various reasons, are not.
- And finally, we ask for a special outpouring of grace on mothers and grandmothers—that they may raise their children in your truth, and that those children would not depart from your way.
We pray, Lord, that you would help our society see children not as a burden, but as a blessing. May every parent have access to the wisdom, support, encouragement, resources, health, and time they need to be faithful in raising children of character and compassion.
We ask that you help both women and men recognize motherhood as a high calling, worthy of deep honor and respect.
Cover mothers and grandmothers with the protection of your Spirit. May they find refuge in your loving heart. Let your truth be their shield and armor.
Above all, may your love, power, and presence sustain every mother—today and always.
We ask this in Jesus’s name.
Amen.
Tell older women to live their lives in a way that shows they are dedicated to God. Tell them not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of virtue. In this way they will teach young women to show love to their husbands and children, to use good judgment, and to be morally pure. (Titus 2:3–5 GW)
As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you. (Isaiah 66:13 GW)
Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], Even when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs 22:6 AMP)
He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge. His truth is your shield and armor. (Psalm 91:4 GW)
“Listen to Me,” says the Lord, “O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been carried by Me from your birth
And have been carried in My arms from the womb,
Even to your old age I am He,
And even to your advanced old age I will carry you!
I have made you, and I will carry you;
Be assured I will carry you and I will save you.” – God (Isaiah 46:3-4 AMP)