Our culture itself is in direct opposition to our children’s purity.  They are bombarded on every side with wrong ideas about their bodies, thoughts, speech, and certainly with relation to their sexuality and purity.  The enemy has chosen an attack on purity as one of his favorite tools against our kids, and we must take the battle seriously.  Beyonce dances in halftime shows and it is disturbing on every level.  The performer claims to be possessed by a spirit and is extremely inappropriately dressed.  Yet, millions of Americans watch without batting an eye.  Television commercials are out of control.  The enemy was extremely stealthy at points in our history.  The sad fact is that, currently, he can be blatantly in our faces and seeking our youth. and we are unaffected.

I believe that covering our children in prayer and making different choices is more crucial than ever before.  I will stand my post next to you, but may we begin to come out of the fog and see things for what they are.  The battle is real.

Here are some suggestions as you pray:

• Pray that our teens will be pure in their thoughts. A very important lesson for Christians to learn is how to take their thoughts captive.  Each of our actions begin with a thought, whether good or bad.  Let’s pray that we can effectively teach our young people how to take authority over their wrong thoughts and replace them with thoughts which honor Christ.

Romans 12:1-2  “Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age,but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”

1 Corinthians 2:16 “For who has known the Lord’s mind, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.”

• Pray for purity in their hearts and emotions. I am so thankful that the Lord has given them the power to control themselves, and that when their hormones want to act up; they have authority to stand against them!  Pray for control over their emotions so they can be alert and steadfast, ready in all situations.  We are not governed by our emotions, but be the Spirit of the Living God.

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is more deceitful than anything else,
and incurable—who can understand it?”

2 Timothy 1:7 “On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he diligently searched for me and found me.”

• Pray for purity with their bodies. Pray for purity in their health and eating habits, for purity in the way they dress, and purity in that they wait for sexual activity until marriage.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.”

I want to encourage you as parents.  This is difficult, but please help hold your teens accountable to be pure.  It is so important for you to monitor them and give insight and direction about their attitudes, thought lives, and sexuality.  You are the number one influence in their lives, and though we know these topics are not easy, you have been equipped for every good work and you can do it.  For your children’s sake, you must.

Standing together,