The Prayer of Destiny
 How do we prepare our children to live out GOD’S destiny for them?  The first step is prayer.  Parenting is difficult enough without considering the issue of GOD’S purpose for our children.  When we add “destiny” into the mix, it takes parenting to another level because you are talking about impacting the lives of many others and changing the world.  What an incredible opportunity and responsibility!  From the depths of our heart, we recognize our inabilities to prepare our children to follow GOD into the future.  And out of those depths we cry out to GOD.   
 Prayer is our invitation to GOD into our parenting experience.  However we often miss something:   Once we invite GOD to that situation, then we need to remember that He is in it completely.  GOD never just walks in & just changes a few things & then leaves.  Oh no, no.  GOD is not a servant who does what we ask.  He is GOD & in that moment when we invite Him in to the parenting relationships, we need to understand that He will come fully into that moment.  He will be all over it and He will be all in it.  GOD is not One to sit on the sidelines and give advice.  Remember that prayer is more than just asking for help.  Prayer is calling on the GOD of creation to take charge of the things we cannot handle, including parenting.  GOD is not here to assist us as parents.  Instead He responds to our prayers by calling our children to follow Him.  
 Remember the prayer of Hannah from 1 Samuel 1 - 
“O Lord Almighty, if You will only look upon Your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget Your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life.”
It was a prayer of surrender.  The prayer of destiny is the prayer that is willing for the purposes of GOD to be accomplished regardless of the cost.  Therefore if you see destiny in your children, then here is the question to ask:  Are you willing to pray the prayer of destiny?  Are you willing to let them go into the unknown future to be GOD’S person wherever that calling may take him/her? 
 Once we are willing for GOD to accomplish His plans for their lives, then His calling will invite them to a life beyond imagination.  And it is not a prayer we just pray once.  It is a prayer we pray regularly, often daily or even hourly. 

It is the Prayer of Destiny.