Praying for Your Family - 11. Dishes

The next week will hinge on our prayers being directed by a variety of common household chores.  Every home has certain things that require being done on a regular basis, so why not let those things motivate and remind us to pray?  This week the prayers will be focused on when you are doing or just recognizing the need for doing household chores (you know the "I really should ____, but I just don't feel like it" moments can be used to remind you to pray as well!).

Dishes are a pretty regular, mundane chore, that I honestly despise.  I mean, I will be training my kids to do this and passing it on ASAP! If you like doing the dishes, please come do ours anytime! I often feel discouraged when washing dishes, so that is the topic of prayer for this particular chore - praying that our family would not be easily discouraged.  I like how in these three different verses, the Lord puts fear and discouragement together - because when we are afraid it is all the more easy to give up and also be discouraged. 

Doing Dishes - Discouraged

Big Daddy God,

Please help my kids and my husband to not be easily discouraged. Remind them to look to you for strength and hope, even when life and people bring bitter disappointments.  Help them to trust you and remember the hope that we all have through your promises.  Please remind me to always be an encourager in my home, to never be the voice of discouragement to my family.   Help me to have a song ready before a complaint.  I battle discouragement, too, so please be with me and remind me to look always at you and all the deep ways you love and bless us, instead of focusing on myself or circumstances and ways my flighty flesh is so easily disappointed and discouraged.  Remind us of your presence - that you are with us and for us, and we need not be discouraged, because there is hope ahead.  In Jesus Name,

Amen.

This is the eleventh post in a series on Praying for Your Family: a 31 Day Challenge.  You can go to the main 'landing page' for a list of all the days by clicking here:

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