Prayer Focus for September

Watchmen for Youth

Children Are a Blessing

Father, we repent for taking our children for granted or for speaking negatively over the youth in our nation. Jesus, You, “took them up in Your arms, laid Your hands on them, and blessed them” (Mark 10:16).

Teach us how to speak life over the youth of this generation, bless them, and to point them to You.

For, “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth” (Psalm 127:3–4). Our “descendants will be mighty on earth; the generation of the upright will be blessed” (Psalm 112:2). “A righteous man who walks in his integrity; how blessed are his sons after him” (Proverbs 20:7). May they be blessed and bless those who came before them to show them the way.

“One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts” (Psalm 145:4). “That the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, that they may set their hope in God” (Psalm 78:6–7).

Prodigals

Jehovah Rapha, You are the God who heals all brokenness within us. We pray for our children and youth to be healed through Your blood in all areas of their lives.

For our children who do not know Jesus as Lord and Savior, we ask for Your mercy over their souls. Create divine appointments so they encounter You, the One True God. For as it is written, Your “mercy endures forever” (Psalm 136).

Draw the prodigals unto Yourself (John 6:44). Watch for them to return home as the father did in Luke 15. And when they turn from the world and head toward home, have compassion on them. For “…when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion” (Luke 15:20). We have trusted in You and so we claim Acts 16:31, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Father, we ask for protection and mercy over our prodigals until they return home. Cover them “with Your feathers, and under Your wings they shall take refuge” (Psalm 91:4). Lord, in love, discipline, wisdom and compassion, “turn the hearts of fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers” (Malachi 4:6).

HAPN Prayer Proclamations · September 12

With thanks from NJ HAPN Coordinator, Lori Evans and PrayerLink founder, Keena Cowsert. HAPN Prayer Proclamations for September 12, 2026 (PDF).

Watchman Prayer for November Elections

Across the Nation and in His Garden State — IFA Prayer Guide, Midterm Elections 11/2026 (PDF).

Closing Blessing

May God bless each of you and your family, keep you, may His face shine upon you, be gracious to you and grant you peace.