How to correctly address God in maternal prayer?
Any prayer, if it is not read from a book or Bible, is simple communication with God.
It is difficult to call this a dialogue, because few believers actually heard God's voice. But this should not be a reason not to turn to God as your Father or Friend. Such communication assumes that a person is not distracted by any extraneous things. Sometimes it is difficult for a mother to do this - as soon as she begins to pray for her child, thoughts immediately arise in her head regarding cooking dinner, washing or cleaning. It is necessary to renounce all this in order to fully delve into prayer. It is written in the Word of God that the Creator looks at the heart of a person, and not at who he is or what he represents. That is, a mother’s prayer will be heard only if she turns to God with a pure heart and good intentions. Prayer should not be selfish. It would seem, what bad benefit can a mother pray for her child pursue? This may be a desire for him to enter the educational institution that his mother wants to go to. Instead, you just need to trust God and know that the teenager will be accepted into exactly the university that he really needs. The child can simply try his hand at entrance exams to several educational institutions at once. Before a mother can ask for her child before God, she must repent of all her sins, both conscious and unconscious. Because the Creator opposes the proud, but gives grace, blesses and helps those who are humble and meek before Him. It is impossible to ask for health for your child when your heart is filled with anger or resentment towards someone. It is necessary to forgive the offender and humbly pray for your children. You also need to ask for something specific until an answer is received or until peace comes to your heart regarding the question that prompted the mother to turn to God. It is these two criteria that indicate that the prayer has been heard.
Features of prayer for children
From time immemorial, parents have given their children a blessing that has always had tremendous power. Under no circumstances is it permissible for a father or mother to curse their children or speak badly about them. Parental prayer can work a miracle.
Unfortunately, modern fathers and mothers perceive prayer for children as some kind of magic spell. They think that if they say the cherished words every day, their children will grow up healthy, rich and happy. Such things have nothing to do with parental prayer. A real appeal to Heaven is when a loving and compassionate mother with a heart full of faith in repentance and humility asks the Almighty to send them grace and God's favor.
For a prayer appeal to be strong, communication with the Almighty must be alive. This means that when pronouncing texts written by saints, you need to pass each word through your heart, filling your request with faith and trust in the Lord. You need to send requests to Heaven in repentance and humility, realizing your sinfulness. Petitions must be offered with consistency, for the Lord said, “Knock and it will be opened.”
First of all, requests should be addressed to the Almighty. Prayers to the Most Holy Theotokos and saints will not replace the patronage of the Creator. The letter of James says, “The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” Therefore, study the Holy Scripture, if you have sinned, repent, take communion, love God and your neighbor with all your heart.
You can offer prayers in your own words. However, when you feel the need for longer prayers and words are not enough, pray according to Scripture or use a prayer book. There are prayers composed by saints.
You can pray in front of the image. There are a large number of prayer requests in front of the icon of the Mother of God. But we must understand that we are not praying to an image. The icon creates a certain atmosphere and helps set the heart in the right way.
Another type of appeal to the Lord is reading akathists. These are praises. The mother can choose a specific praise and read it while turning to the Lord.
As we see, prayer is spiritual work, and not the utterance of certain “magic words.”
Bless your children daily. Turn to Jesus Christ, entrusting your children into His hands, asking Him to guide them on the true path, grant them mercy and favor, and keep them from vices. So that children strive with all their hearts for the Lord, trust in Him, so that there is faith, hope, love in their hearts, offer up a mother’s prayer to grant children blessings from above, for they are God’s children, since the Lord gave them life.
The prayer request to the Creator is that he grant them success in every endeavor and good health. So that God would protect them from all evil and wickedness and grant them His mercy.
What could a mother's prayer be?
Using standard texts for prayer is good for those mothers who have recently become believers and do not yet know how to properly address God and what to talk about. For those mothers who do not want to use written prayers in a conversation with God, they can use the following methods:
- Impromptu - when in prayer a woman uses her own words and thoughts and says what is “boiling” in her heart, pours out her worries for the child and concerns about the state of his health and future life. This is a conversation with God the Father or his son Jesus Christ, which at first may seem one-sided, like a monologue, but if the mother feels consolation, calm and peace from such a prayer, then we can assume that she has done everything correctly. After all, the purpose of prayer is to receive an answer, which is expressed in the fact that a person no longer worries or worries, because he completely relies on God’s will.
- In front of the image of the Saint , it could be the Mother of God, Nicholas the Wonderworker, Sergei of Radonezh, Great Martyr Sophia, Gabriel of Bialystok, Panteleimon. When praying like this, it is important not to talk to the icon, but to turn to the one who is depicted on it. It is also necessary to know what kind of Saint this is and why it is worth asking him for help in matters relating to the well-being of children.
Impromptu prayer is a cry from the soul to God; prayer to the Saint is an appeal that has a specific purpose. Let's look at this type of prayer in more detail.
Appeal to the Mother of God
It is necessary to ask Mary for your children because she herself is the mother who gave birth to the world from the Holy Spirit our Savior Jesus Christ. Therefore, addressing her has a special meaning. Requests can be very diverse; the age of the child does not matter - he may still be in the womb or already an adult.
O Most Holy Lady Virgin Theotokos, save and preserve under Your shelter my children (names), all youths, young women and infants, baptized and nameless and carried in their mother’s womb. Cover them with the robe of Your motherhood, keep them in the fear of God and in obedience to their parents, pray to my Lord and Your Son to grant them what is useful for their salvation. I entrust them to Your maternal supervision, for You are the Divine Protection of Your servants.
Mother of God, introduce me to the image of Your heavenly motherhood. Heal the mental and physical wounds of my children (names) caused by my sins. I entrust my child entirely to my Lord Jesus Christ and Your, Most Pure, heavenly protection. Amen.
Appeal to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
This Saint is not a fictional character. Nicholas was an ordinary person who lived in the 3rd century BC. He developed a desire for worship as a child, and his parents, being quite wealthy people, did not interfere with their boy’s desire to serve the Lord. It was his idea to exchange gifts at Christmas. Nikolai especially helped those who were sick or lived in poverty. All the inheritance that was left to him after the death of his parents was distributed to people in need of money. Therefore, in prayer for her children, any mother can turn to Nicholas if her child is in poor health or when a woman does not have enough money to provide for her children.
Chosen Wonderworker, saint of Christ, Father Nicholas! You exude peace into the sea, performing endless miracles. You maintain the strength of the spirit of sinners, you heal the sick and those possessed by the devil! I pray to you, Holy Father! Help the Lord’s sinful son (name). Ask for strength and strength for him, so that he can withstand the test that has become a burden on his body. Soar with your kindness above his mortal body. So that the spirit resists the misfortunes and wiles of the devil, unworthy temptations. To pray together with those whom the Lord accepted in heaven for His eternal glory! Amen!
Appeal to Sergei of Radonezh
Not all children do well academically. For this reason, it is good to pray to this Saint. He was chosen by God while he was still in his mother's womb and, observing fasting and being a baby, refused to drink breast milk on Wednesdays and Fridays. Growing up, it took him a long time to learn to read and count. One elder prayed for him and the boy’s academic progress improved.
O sacred head, reverend and God-bearing Father Sergius, by your prayer, and faith, and love, even for God, and the purity of your heart, you have settled your soul on earth in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, and have been granted angelic communion and the visitation of the Most Holy Theotokos, and the gift received miraculous grace, after your departure from earthly people, you drew closer to God, and partook of heavenly powers, but did not retreat from us in the spirit of your love, and your honest power, like a full and overflowing vessel of grace, was left to us! Having great boldness towards the All-Merciful Master, pray to save His servants, His grace existing in you, believing and flowing to you with love. Ask us from our Greatly Gifted God every gift that is beneficial to everyone, observance of the immaculate faith, establishment of our cities, peace, deliverance from famine and destruction, preservation from the invasion of foreigners, consolation for the afflicted, healing for the sick, restoration for the fallen, for those who go astray on the path of truth and return of salvation, strengthening for those who strive, prosperity and blessing for those who do good in good deeds, upbringing of infants, instruction for the young, admonition for the ignorant, intercession for orphans and widows, departing from this temporary life for the eternal, good preparation and parting words, blessed rest for those departed, and all of us assisted by your prayers vouchsafe on the day of the Last Judgment to be delivered from this part, and to be partakers of the right hand of the country and to hear the blessed voice of the Lord Christ: come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Amen.
Appeal to the Great Martyr Sophia
Every mother should pray to St. Sophia for her children because during her lifetime she experienced a lot of mental anguish, was a widow and raised three daughters alone: Faith, Hope and Love. She and her girls trusted God and relied on Him for everything. Such a strong faith became known to the emperor, who was surprised that the single mother trusted more in the Lord and not in the pagan gods. Then he sent a shaman to her so that she could check whether Sophia and her daughters were so God-fearing as to resist the machinations of the pagan preacher. As it turned out, yes. Nothing broke the faith of this woman and her daughters, who by this time were already adult girls and supported their mother in everything.
But why is she a Great Martyr? Because she had to bury her beloved children. After all, the emperor did not like Sophia’s firmness in faith, and he subjected her girls to various tortures, from which God constantly protected them. Realizing that it was impossible to hurt the girls, the emperor decided to take their lives by cutting off their heads. So Sofia said goodbye to her beloved children. She stayed near their graves for two days and died quietly on the third day.
Oh, long-suffering and wise Great Martyr Sophia of Christ! You stand with your soul in heaven at the Throne of the Lord, and on earth, by the grace given to you, you perform various healings: look mercifully at the people who are present and those praying before your relics, asking for your help: extend your holy prayers to the Lord for us, and ask us for forgiveness our sins, healing for the sick, quick help for the grieving and needy: pray to the Lord to give us all a Christian death and a good answer at His Last Judgment, so that we may be worthy to glorify the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit with you forever and ever. Amen.
Appeal to Gabriel of Bialystok
This Saint died at the age of six. Before Easter, he was kidnapped from his parents and subjected to ritual torture. They tortured him for a long time, releasing blood through punctures in his sides and stomach. While still alive, he was abandoned at the edge of the forest, where he suffered and died. The boy was found on the ninth day after the theft. He became a saint because none of the wild animals tore him to pieces; the animals protected the deceased from birds wanting to feast on dead flesh. And the boy’s bones, even after thirty years of burial, did not change. Many Orthodox mothers pray to him for their children, asking for protection and recovery.
Guardian of infantile kindness and bearer of martyrdom, blessed Gabriel. Our countries are precious adamante and the accuser of Jewish wickedness! We sinners come running to you in prayer, and lamenting over our sins, and ashamed of our cowardice, we call to you with love: do not disdain our filth, you are a treasure of purity; Do not hate our cowardice, long-suffering teacher; but more than this, seeing our weaknesses from heaven, grant us healing through your prayer, and teach us to be imitators of your fidelity to Christ. If we are unable to patiently bear the cross of temptation and suffering, then do not deprive us of your merciful help, saint of God, but ask the Lord for freedom and weakness for us: hear the same mother’s prayers for her children, and pray for health and salvation as an infant from the Lord. : There is no such cruel heart that the holy infant will not be touched by hearing about your torment. And even if, apart from this tender sighing, we are able to bring no good deed, but with such a tender thought our minds and hearts, blessedly, have enlightened us to correct our lives with the grace of God: put in us tireless zeal for the salvation of the soul and for the glory of God, and In the hour of death, help us to keep vigilant memory, especially in our deathbed, demonic torment and thoughts of despair from our souls through your intercession, and ask for this hope of Divine forgiveness, but then and now glorify for us the mercy of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and your strong intercession, forever and ever. Amen.
Appeal to Panteleimon
This Saint had a medical practice during his lifetime. Before turning to God and accepting Him as his Lord and Savior, he treated people exclusively for money. But when I learned about Christianity and became imbued with this faith, I decided to help people with their illnesses for free. Therefore, he needs to pray when the child is in the hospital for treatment or is generally in a coma. There was a case when Panteleimon found a child on the road who had died from the bite of a poisonous snake. He prayed to God for the resurrection of the child and he came to life. It was this miracle that became the impetus for the Saint to help sick children and adults absolutely free and selflessly until the end of his days.
I turn to you in prayer, Panteleimon the Healer! Grant healing to my child, send him strength, touch his flesh, kiss his soul. Extinguish the blazing fire, tame passion, revoke weakness. Wake up the servant of God (name), raise him from his sick bed. Give him Your blessing. We submit to Your will and await Your mercy. In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.
Who should you pray to?
Every mother should pray for her child and ask the Higher Powers for a better life for her child. Maternal prayer has extraordinary power and truly works miracles.
Jesus Christ
Lord Jesus Christ, bring Your mercy to my children (names). keep them under Your roof, cover them from all evil lust, drive away from them every enemy and adversary, open the ears and eyes of their hearts, grant tenderness and humility to their hearts. Lord, we are all Your creation, have pity on my children (names) and turn them to repentance. Save, O Lord, and have mercy on my children (names) and enlighten their minds with the light of reason of Your Gospel and guide them on the path of Your commandments and teach them, O Savior, to do Your will, for You are our God.
Holy Mother of God
O Most Holy Lady Virgin Theotokos, save and preserve under Your shelter my children (names), all youths, young women and infants, baptized and nameless and carried in their mother’s womb. Cover them with the robe of Your motherhood, keep them in the fear of God and in obedience to their parents, pray to my Lord and Your Son to grant them what is useful for their salvation. I entrust them to Your maternal supervision, for You are the Divine Protection of Your servants.
Mother of God, introduce me to the image of Your heavenly motherhood. Heal the mental and physical wounds of my children (names) caused by my sins. I entrust my child entirely to my Lord Jesus Christ and Your, Most Pure, heavenly protection. Amen.
Great Martyr Barbara
Holy glorious and all-praised Great Martyr of Christ Varvaro! Gathered today in your Divine temple, people and the race of your relics venerate and kiss with love, your suffering as a martyr and in their passion-maker Christ Himself, who gave you, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him, with pleasing praises, we pray to you , the well-known desire of our intercessor: pray with us and for us, God who beseeches Him from His compassion, may He mercifully hear us asking for His goodness, and not leave us with all the needful petitions for salvation and life, and grant a Christian death to our belly, painless, shameless, I will give peace, I will partake of the Divine Mysteries, and He will give His great mercy to everyone in every place, in every sorrow and situation that requires His love for mankind and help, so that by the grace of God and your warm intercession, with soul and body always abiding in health, we glorify God, wondrous in His saints Israel, who does not remove His help from us always, now and ever and forever and ever. Amen.
Simeon the God-Receiver
Oh, great servant of God, God-receptive Simeon! Standing before the Throne of the great King and our God Jesus Christ, I have great boldness towards Him, in your arms we will rush for the sake of salvation. To you, as a powerful intercessor and a strong prayer book for us, we, sinners and unworthy, resort. Pray for His Goodness, for He may turn away His anger from us, righteously moved towards us by our deeds, and, having despised our countless sins, turn us to the path of repentance and establish us on the path of His commandments.
Protect our life in peace with your prayers, and ask for good haste in all good things, granting us everything we need for life and piety. Just as in ancient times Great Novograd, by the appearance of your miraculous icon, delivered us from the destruction of mortals, so now we and all the cities and villages of our country have been delivered from all misfortunes and misfortunes and vain deaths by your intercession, and from all enemies, visible and invisible, with your protection.
Let us live a quiet and silent life in all piety and purity, and, having passed this temporary life in the world, we will achieve eternal peace, where we will be made worthy of the Heavenly Kingdom of Christ our God. To Him all glory is due, together with the Father and His Most Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Guardian Angel
To the angel of God, the guardian of my child (name), holy, given from God from heaven for his (her) keeping! I diligently pray to you: enlighten him (her) today, and save him (her) from all evil, instruct him in good deeds, and direct him on the path of salvation. Amen.
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Is it worth asking for help from the Guardian Angel?
Each person at baptism receives a great gift from God - his Guardian Angel. This also happens when children are baptized. The name that is given to the child is also borne by his Angel. Many priests believe that even those who have not gone through the rite of baptism have such a Protector. This is an invisible force that helps in difficult life situations and problems. Therefore, you also need to pray to the Guardian Angel for your child. What can you ask him for:
- about the protection of a child during a trip or journey;
- about the Angel being a mentor to the child and telling him how to act in a given situation;
- about preparing a child for God's judgment, so that he understands that everyone will appear before God in due time and will be responsible for their actions;
- about a warning about danger when the Angel “gives” signs to the child, protecting him from one or another action.
There is no need to neglect the help that the Guardian Angel can provide. After all, if some kind of misfortune happens to a child, then this intercessor has the power to take care of the child and guide him on the right path. But we should not forget, in addition to all the listed Saints and the Angel, it is necessary to pray for children, first of all, to God himself, because it was He who created each child and knows him from the womb, knows the thoughts and desires of the heart. Even a mother does not know her child as well as the Lord knows him.
Prayer for children: a mother's most powerful prayers for her children
God! Creator of all creatures, adding mercy to mercy, You have made me worthy to be the mother of a family; Your grace has given me children, and I dare to say: they are Your children!
Because You gave them existence, revived them with an immortal soul, Revived them through baptism for a life in accordance with Your will, Adopted them and accepted them into the bosom of Your Church.
God! Keep them in a state of grace until the end of their lives; grant them to be partakers of the sacraments of Your Covenant; sanctify by Thy truth; may Thy holy name be sanctified in them and through them!
Send down upon me Your gracious help in educating them for the glory of Your name and the benefit of your neighbor! Give me methods, patience and strength for this purpose! Teach me to plant in their hearts the root of true wisdom - Thy fear!
Illuminate them with the light of Your Wisdom that governs the universe! May they love You with all their souls and thoughts; may they cleave to You with all their hearts and throughout their entire life, may they tremble at Your words!
Grant me the understanding to convince them that true life consists in keeping Your commandments; that work, strengthened by piety, brings serene contentment in this life, and in eternity - inexpressible bliss.
Open to them the understanding of Your law! May they act until the end of their days in the feeling of Your omnipresence; plant in their hearts fear and disgust from all lawlessness; let them be blameless in their ways; May they always remember that You, All-Good God, are the Zealot of Your law and righteousness!
Keep them in chastity and reverence for Your name! Let them not discredit Your Church by their behavior, but let them live according to its instructions!
Inspire them with a desire for useful teaching and make them capable of every good deed! May they acquire a true understanding of those objects whose information is necessary in their condition; may they be enlightened with knowledge beneficial to humanity.
God! Manage me to impress with indelible marks on the minds and hearts of my children the fear of fellowship with those who do not know Thy fear; instill in them every possible distance from any alliance with the lawless; let them not listen to rotten conversations; May they not be led astray from Your path by bad examples; Let them not be tempted by the fact that sometimes the path of the wicked is successful in this world.
Heavenly Father! Grant me the grace to take every possible care to tempt my children with my actions, but, constantly keeping in mind their behavior, to distract them from errors, correct their mistakes, curb their stubbornness and obstinacy, refrain from striving for vanity and frivolity; Let them not be carried away by foolish thoughts, let them not follow their hearts, let them not become proud in their thoughts, let them not forget You and Your law.
May iniquity not destroy their mind and health, may sins not weaken their mental and physical strength.
Righteous Judge, who punishes children for the sins of their parents up to the 3rd and 4th generation, turn away such punishment from my children, do not punish them for my sins; but sprinkle them with the dew of Your grace, that they may prosper in virtue and holiness, that they may increase in Your favor and in the love of pious people. Father of generosity and all mercy!
According to my parental feeling, I would wish for my children every abundance of earthly blessings, I would wish them blessings from the dew of heaven and from the fatness of the earth, but may Thy holy will be with them!
Arrange their fate according to Your good pleasure, do not deprive them of their daily bread in life, send down to them everything they need in time to acquire a blissful eternity; be merciful to them when they sin against You; do not impute to them the sins of their youth and their ignorance; bring their hearts into contrition when they resist the guidance of Your goodness; Punish them and have mercy, directing them to the path pleasing to You, but do not reject them from Your presence!
Accept their prayers with favor; grant them success in every good deed; do not turn Your face away from them in the days of their tribulation, lest temptations befall them beyond their strength. Overshadow them with Your mercy; May Your Angel walk with them and protect them from every misfortune and evil path.
All-merciful God! Make me a mother who rejoices over her children, so that they will be my joy in the days of my life and my support in my old age. Honor me, with trust in Your mercy, to appear with them at Your Last Judgment and with shameless boldness to say: “Here I am and my children whom You gave me, Lord!”
Yes, together with them, glorifying Your ineffable goodness and eternal love, I extol Your most holy name, Father, Son and Holy Soul, forever and ever. Amen.
Is maternal prayer powerful?
Definitely yes.
There is no prayer stronger than this. Only a mother who has given birth to her child and breastfed him loves him so much that her prayer can “move” mountains, as it is written in the Bible. And there is no doubt about it. Who would pray more fiercely than a mother for a child who desperately needs healing or deliverance? Only the mother who brought him into this world. It is good if parents pray for their children together. Because the Scripture says that “where there are two or three, there I am in the midst of them.” That is, praying together has its advantages. Mothers can gather and pray for their children together. In addition, they can help each other by having close communication. It is always easier to solve a problem together, so it is simply necessary and even obligatory for believing mothers to communicate with each other, visit, help and pray together.
What else can a believing mother do?
A mother's prayer for her child is a mandatory action for every woman who has children.
You can pray even when there is nothing to ask for. At such moments, you can simply thank God that everything is fine with the child - he is not sick, is doing well in his studies, obeys his parents and respects his elders. A prayer-petition for a child is necessary if some problem occurs. It will not hurt a mother to pray for the future of her children - their further education, choice of profession, choice of a life partner, choice of an enterprise in which to work, the birth of children (grandchildren). In addition to the physical needs that boys and girls have, mothers should not forget about their spiritual development. It is worth praying that children learn to keep God’s commandments, understand their meaning, love to read the Bible, and talk about God and their faith in Him without embarrassment to all their friends and acquaintances. To do this, you need to be a good example and show through your life what a believer should be. In addition to prayer and personal example, every mother should bless her child through the laying on of hands when he leaves the house, goes to bed, or wakes up. A blessing is a wish for all the good that a mother’s heart can wish for her child, because this also has great power.
How to pray correctly
It is better to pray through an icon. You can buy it at the church. You definitely need to buy a candle. Before turning to Jesus Christ, the Mother of God or the Saints, you should light it and place it in front of the images.
If a mother reads a petition over a child, then at the end of pronouncing the words she should cross him.
It is better to pray through an icon
But the most important thing that can happen when reading a prayer is sincerity and faith. In the process of asking, you need to feel the presence of the Mother of God and truly believe that she will definitely come to the rescue and will not leave the child in a difficult situation.
Equally important is how to say the prayer. You need to try so that the soul itself calls out to the Higher powers instead of the one praying. There should be no extraneous or negative thoughts.
You need to try so that the soul itself calls out to the Higher powers
During pronunciation, you need to create as quiet an environment as possible in the room. The equipment should be turned off and the animals should be moved to another room. This will allow you to tune in to the prayer and not be distracted by foreign objects while reading it.
It is worth noting that the petition can be pronounced both in the temple and at home.
