The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids Quotes

“Many people think a Christian is someone who believes in God and tries to be good, or someone who lives by the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount (as if anyone could!). But what we and our children must understand is that a Christian is a person who recognizes that he or she is a sinner deserving nothing less than the terrifying judgment of God and who takes refuge only in the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“To be truly blessed by God is not to emerge from the struggles of life unscathed”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“But the truth is that children breathe in the spiritual air their parents have breathed in and out—the sense of who God is as Father”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“For such an important task, we need to have our thoughts and attitudes and our dreams and desires shaped by Scripture.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“Our children are naturally self-sovereigns until the day they come under the rule of Jesus. We are all in need of grace to put an end to our dangerous hope for autonomy.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“Sometimes we give our children the idea that the Christian life is all about what they must do for God. But at the heart of what it means to be a Christian is the willingness to accept the cleansing touch of Jesus so he can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“Lord, give ________ the ability to recognize you. Don’t let ________ reject you. Give ________ the faith to believe, the will to accept, and the right to become a child of God. We long for so much more for ________ than going through this life physically alive but spiritually dead. Call ________ to life so that ________ will never die.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“God wants us to walk humbly with him. To live in this way is to have the praise of God on our lips and a settled determination to be obedient to God in our hearts.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“Lord, sometimes the possibility of coming catastrophe can make our family terribly afraid. We’re tempted to ask you only to protect us from difficulty, but what we really want is to be a family who lives by faith in the midst of the worst of circumstances”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“THE LORD REVEALED to the prophet Habakkuk that he was about to do a purifying work among his people by raising up the Babylonians to take them into captivity.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“He chose to live by faith—not the kind of faith that believed God would miraculously show up and shield them from harm, but faith that God would preserve them through harm. Habakkuk shows us that living by faith means banking our hope on God no matter what happens in this life.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“Lord, how I wish I could do something tangible and physical to ensure the safety of my children from judgment. Instead I must trust you and thank you for providing the Lamb of God who takes away sin. I ask you to give ________ a deep sense of need for her life to be marked by his blood.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids

“Give me the grace to lead the way in having an ambition to serve others out of love for you.”
― Nancy Guthrie, The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids