“11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the LORD, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
“Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us—none can compare to You—if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count. ”
“But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.”
God has the master plan for the destinies of our children; prosperity, security, hope, and a good future (Jeremiah 29:11). However, as we see further in Jeremiah 29:12-13, there are conditions attached if this plan has to come to pass; “calling on the Lord, coming to him, praying, seeking the Lord with a whole heart.” The bible says in Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it”. It is our responsibility as parents to train our children in the way of the Lord so that even if they go astray at some point, the seeds of the word that has been planted in them never die. The prodigal son went astray but the seed from his father's house never died, he remembered and came back to his senses. We must train our children to develop themselves in studying the word of God, prayer, and seeking God for direction or when faced with challenges. As stated in psalm 40:5, what the Lord has in store for our children is uncountable. Satan and his agents know all about destinies and have been fighting since the time of old. He fought in the time of Joseph, Moses, Jesus, etc. What makes us think it will be different today? God is true, he is the living God and the everlasting King (Jeremiah 10:10), we must stand in the place of prayer and call on God to arise and release his wrath on the agents of satan fighting the destinies of our children. We must stand on this word Isaiah 46:10 “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.” and declare that God’s purposes for our children must stand and must come to pass. We must secure the destinies of our children and the ONLY place to do so is at the throne of the Father.
Pray against the spirit of the world manipulating the lives of our children. Something that is clearly sinful in the bible, the world makes it acceptable. This is displayed in TV, the internet, social media, etc; 1 Corithinain2:12 “We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” Romans 8:15 “For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
Pray against the spirit of Herod: Remember this King Herod? This is the spirit that kills destinies. He sees the brightness and potential of our children; he comes and releases a sword of destruction. We must declare the death of this spirit. “ Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.” Mathew 2:16
This same Herod spirit is called the “FOX, it releases the SPIRIT OF FEAR AND INTIMIDATION during prayers so that we stop our prayer, thus children are not delivered. We must stand steadily, and unshakable in the place of prayers and tell the fox we are not moving UNTIL EVERY CHILD IS COMPLETELY DELIVERED. “ 31At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.” 32But Jesus replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.” Luke 13:31-32
The Herod spirit likes to shed innocent blood thus can result in physical death. We must declare that the spirit of untimely death will never settle in the lives of our children. Isaiah 59:7 ”Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.” Psalm 118:17 “I will not die, but I will live and proclaim what the LORD has done”.
This same Herod spirit can arrest, bound, and imprison our children and their destinies before finally killing them. Mark 6:17-18 “16 But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised from the dead! 17 For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married. 18 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” We must stand upon the power of Mathew 18:18-19 “ 18Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven.” and loose our children from the evil and destructive spirit.
Consultation of Spiritists: Why consult the dead on behave of the living? These kinds of consultations involved presenting pictures, names, or something that belongs to our children to these altars with the goal of altering their destinies. We must release the fire of God upon these evil consultations/ altars; they must perish under the heavens and earth never to rise again. Isaiah 8:19 “When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?”
Some of this wickedness comes from the same persons that are supposed to protect our children. Call on the anger of God against such who practices this kind of wickedness against our children. 2 Kings 21:6 “He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.”
The Lord has warned that we should not turn to the medium of a spiritist, pray that God will set his face against anyone who is consultative such as on behalf of our children. Leviticus 19:31 “ You must not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out, or you will be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.” Leviticus 20:6 “Whoever turns to mediums or spiritists to prostitute himself with them, I will also set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.”
The spirit of Egypt (enslavement through charms and familiars spirit, work but never achieving and soon gives up, prostitution, idolatry, reliance on anything else but God): Isaiah 19:3” And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. Ezekiel 23:8 “She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her”.We must call on the word of God to go out the spirit of Egypt and totally destroy, not returning back until it accomplishes its purpose. Isaiah 55:11 “so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
Pray against the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah-the spirit of sexual immorality of all types that have invaded the lives of our children. God totally destroyed everything to the point that Abraham looked and the holy thing he saw was smoked. We must get rid of the totality of this spirit: 1 Corinthians 6:9 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 2 Peter 2:6 If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
Pray against sexual abusers and exploiters who push our children in such sinful and wicked acts: 1 Corinthians 5:1 “1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife. 2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this? 3Although I am absent from you in body, I am present with you in spirit, and I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.” Release the judgment of the Lord by fire upon any sexual perpetrators of our children. Most of them are from within our homes, friends, church, workplaces, and communities. Romans 6:13 “Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness”
Pray that God will separate our children from ungodly relationships: 1 Corinthians 5:11” But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.”
The spirit of Rejection and pain: Many children have gone through a lot of pain in their lives and therefore we must stand on the word of God to declare that the identity that has painted them dark must be eroded from their lives and be replaced with what the Lord says- they are people that God will take delight in. Isaiah 62:4 “No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride”