31 Ways to Pray for Your Children: Honesty and Integrity

Happy 4th of July everyone! Hope you are all well on your way to a bbq picnic while you await nightfall to sit back and enjoy some fireworks. For those of you who had the privilege of running the Peachtree Road Race, thank God for your health. I've never realized how much I took my healthy body for granted in years past... and I'm hardly disabled. Just not well enough to run. Our little family of 3 made a road trip south and this comes to you from Destin, Florida. No recent photo to go along with this post however because Bekham has not yet been photogenic. Spent an entire hour of the trip screaming, and other entire hour out of his carseat. Don't tell on us. He's been sick. I'll try to get a picture of him tonight at dinner, but no guarantees! We are heading to the Fairfield Inn for a night as the plumbing at my parents house isn't working and we don't have water! Bekham in a hotel room. Pray for us.

Anyways, today's prayer of the day is: HONESTY AND INTEGRITY. The verse that goes along with this prayer is from Psalm 25:21: "May integrity and uprightness (honesty) protect me, because my hope is in you." Time for a quick word study on integrity! Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity is the opposite of hypocrisy. It regards internal consistency as a virtue.

Jesus, thank you that you were the perfect model for us during your time on earth. Thank you for your Word that is ready and available to teach us all that we need to know about being Your disciples. Thank you that your Word contains everything that Nick and I need to know when it comes to parenting. Thank you that your Word contains everything that Bekham needs to know at every walk of life. As a child to his parents. As a brother. As a man. As a husband and possibly even as a Dad one day.   Thank you that you embodied and exemplified what it means to be honest and what it looks like to have integrity. I pray that you would instill these values in Bekham. Let his yes be yes and his no be no. Let him be consistent in his thoughts and in his actions. Let those thoughts and actions honor and glorify you. I pray that his peers would trust him because of these qualities that are evident in his life. I pray that those both younger and older than him throughout his life would see that Bekham will always be honest and truthful... That he sticks to what he says and follows through. I love the idea of this being the opposite of hypocrisy. I do pray that for him. Let him be a true disciple of You and let honest and integrity be characteristics that define who he is, and characteristics that draw others to who You are.

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