Lord, thank you for the stewardship of this boy. Grace him with health and maturity, stature of character, a quick and decisive submission to Jesus, and the empowerment of the Spirit to serve and love your people.
Give me grace to live and walk in a way that would be beneficial to emulate as he watches. Give me a steady posture in parenting so that he understands who his Heavenly Father is through my approximate example.
Allow his name to be a definition of his life’s direction. There is much to fight for in the world. Give him the wisdom to discern what deserves his attention and affords his strength. Do not allow him to waste vigor or vim on endeavors that pale in comparison to the Kingdom and its virtue.
Protect him from the lies of causes that do not deserve the actions of his energy.
Give him eyes to see the King, King Jesus, and give his hands the ability to war for that kingdom against its myriad foes. Help him see that the destination of those who follow Jesus is not an ethereal existence in an unembodied realm but a home, a physical place of dirt and soil, where we will live and move, in new bodies, the way we were meant to-created to. Give the thrust of his actions an energy that is powered by hope in that reality.
Make him a happy warrior, joyfully under the gaze and approval of the King. May his satisfaction be not in the mere fight he may engage but in his service to the King and the neighbors he is given to serve and fight for.
May all his actions bring glory to the name of Jesus.
Amen.
Lewis - Renowned Warrior
Canaan - Promised Land
Estep - Dweller in the Eastern Valley