Today, Lord, I ask that your heart and your attitude would be formed in my children and grandchildren.  May everything they have done and experienced be used and redeemed by you to bring them into a deeper relationship with you. And as this occurs, may the kind of heart you describe in your sermon on the mount be crafted in them.

Matthew 5

3 God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

I thank you that my children and grandchildren will truly be “poor in spirit,” realizing their need for you.  I thank you that they will discover that they were made and designed by you to need you.  They will not walk in pride and self-sufficiency, imagining they can do life without you.  They will not walk in fear and insecurity, believing that no one can be trusted. They…