For Our Daughters

I read this devotional today and thought it is very relevant to women in today's culture.

This is a prayer for our daughters but I think it's pretty applicable to us as moms, sisters, women, grandmothers, friends, etc:


Lord, I pray that that You would give my daughter a vision of her body as the temple of the Holy Spirit. I pray that she will value the body You've given her and desire to take proper care of it. May she not be critical of it, nor examine herself through the microscope of public opinion and acceptance.


I pray that she will not be bound by the lure of fashion magazines, television, or movies which try to influence her with an image of what they say she should look like. Establish Your vision of health and attractiveness in her heart this day. Help her to see that what makes a person truly attractive is Your Holy Spirit living in her and radiating outward. May she come to understand that true attractiveness begins in the heart of one who loves God.


Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.


The Power of a Praying Parent
- Stormie Omartian