What do I have to do with the rising generation?  How can I influence the lives of my children as a parent or teacher?  How can I be actively involved in shaping their lives in such a perverse and dark world? How can I help meet the challenge before us and help guard the rising generation against the temptation to find security in the things of this world?

As we contemplate our role in reaching the next generation we need to remember the most important responsibility we have as parents, teachers, and grandparents: the responsibility to exercise ourselves in prayer for those God has put in our care.  If you have children or grandchildren, or enjoy the wonderful privilege and responsibility of teaching, then Prayer For My Child will guide you as you meet with God on behalf of these children.  If you are a Sunday school teacher it is not only your task to train the minds of children but to intercede for them that they may come to faith in Christ.

Prayer For My Child is written from real-life experiences of Tim and Stephanie Spilman with their four children.  It is a practical and useful resource for all who desire to enter into covenant with God to pray earnestly and daily for their children. Through the format of biblically based lessons, Spilman presents material that directs the reader’s prayer and serves as a beacon to help keep a sharp focus on God as our Father and Giver of precious gifts—primarily our children. He includes personal testimonies in the form of letters which encourage readers by showing the Spilmans in the everyday struggles and crisis and the way they put their lives on the line for God to show His best for them and their children.  Prayer For My Child is “a systematic approach to this spiritual duty.”  The basic need for this type of book is conveyed by the author when he says, “…we are by nature so inconsistent and erratic in spiritual duties, and so prone to be ruled by what we are thinking or feeling at the moment rather than by spiritual priorities.”  What do I have to do with the rising generation?  Pray for them!

- Allan McLean, CEP Staff