Today, Wednesday, 15th of January 2025, is the 8th day of our 2025 Twelve Days Annual Covenant Fasting & Prayers (A Day for a Month) with the General Theme:

Breaking Forth to All Good Things
Genesis 28:28-29 & Isaiah 58:8-9

Silent destinies and situations must speak forth this year in Jesus’ name.

Today’s Topic:
Marriage, Family, Children, and the World at Large

Scripture Reference:
Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Message:

There will not be much successful breaking forth if families are not well anchored in prayers.

Marriage, family, and children’s matters must be taken seriously in prayers if we desire a better world.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
– Proverbs 22:6

When discussing marriages and families, we are addressing the foundation of the world: continents, countries, states, local governments, towns, villages, and communities.

When there is no peace in marriages and families, the world becomes chaotic. Hooliganism, terrorism, unrest, and other evils we see today are the products of bad and unsettled marriages and families.

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”
– Galatians 6:7

No sensible or reasonable parent will instruct their children to carry guns, harm others, or kill people. These behaviors arise in ungodly homes. This is why we must take these matters to God in prayer.

The devil’s primary target is the home. He often starts with a wrong marriage, which may lead to separation and eventually to divorce. Such situations negatively affect children, as there is often no cooperation between the parents to train them.
“One shall chase a thousand, and two ten thousand.”
– Deuteronomy 32:30

Husbands and wives must speak with one voice when addressing issues with their children. Divided instructions cannot raise godly children.
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”
– Matthew 12:25

Violence, aggression, and inconsistency in families send the wrong signals to children. Imagine a situation where parents exchange insults in front of their children, or where responsibilities are carelessly shared. This creates a negative environment that hinders proper upbringing.

Parents should model godliness. A boy once said he put God first because he saw his father doing the same.

If we have better marriages and families, we will have better children, and ultimately, a better world.

Prayer Points:

1. Thank God for your home and the world. Pray for His guidance and intervention in families.
2. Say: Father, if there is any fault in my marriage, repair it today in Jesus’ name.
3. Pray for those yet to marry, that God will guide them to make the right choices in Jesus’ name.
4. Declare: My children shall be useful, obedient, and God-fearing. I shall not contribute bad products to the world in Jesus’ name.
5. Pray: Father, help me to avoid making any decision that may negatively affect my family in Jesus’ name.
6. Say: Lord, help my husband to love me with all his heart, and help my wife to love me with all her heart, so we can raise a loving family in Jesus’ name.
7. Pray for healing in marriages and homes experiencing challenges in Jesus’ name.
8. Pray for all unstable and faulty husbands and wives to be transformed by God’s power in Jesus’ name.
9. Declare: Father, let the impact of my children be felt all over the world for good in Jesus’ name.
10. Pray: Lord, calm the storms raging over marriages and families in the world, especially in churches, in Jesus’ name.
11. Say: Oh God of the universe, let my marriage and family be untouchable by the devil in Jesus’ name.
12. Declare: Lord, seal the peace of my family with the blood of Jesus, in Jesus’ name.
13. For those yet to marry: Lord, as you chose a wife for Isaac in Genesis 24, let me locate my God-ordained partner in Jesus’ name.
14. Pray for children who have gone astray: Lord, bring them back home by your mercy, like the prodigal son, in Jesus’ name.
15. Pray against demonic influences turning youth away from marriage in Jesus’ name.
16. Pray against demonic forces disrupting God’s plans for marriages globally, in Jesus’ name.
17. Declare that pending and hanging marriages will be celebrated soon, in Jesus’ name.
18. Pray: Lord, remove every spiritual embargo on marriages and families, in Jesus’ name.
19. Pray for reconciliation in separated or divorced couples by the help of the Holy Spirit in Jesus’ name.

Prophetic Declarations:

I prophesy in Jesus’ name that the month of August shall be glorious for me and my family. We shall receive August blessings and gifts from God. We are detached from every evil of that month and attached to all its good in Jesus’ name.

We reject sickness, death, and pain, and claim joy and peace throughout that month, in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.

Prayer Emphasis:

I am breaking forth into all good things with my family this year, in Jesus’ name.