2022-07-27
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Your birthday should be a day where you feel special and grateful for one more year of life. Birthdays are an excellent time to celebrate the life God has given us and to encourage our friends and family with uplifting words. Encourage your loved ones and remind them of God’s love.

These beautiful prayers and Scriptures are a fantastic way to thank God for your loved ones on their birthday and help wish them a blessed birthday. Encourage them today and remind them of God’s great love and presence in their life and yours.

A Simple Birthday Prayer

Dear God, today I bring my loved one before you on their birthday and pray for your blessings and guidance over their life. Thank you for leading them and guiding them in life. Help them to know how loved and cherished they are. Bless and protect them in the year ahead. May they know your peace and strength when they wake and your comfort and rest when they lay down to sleep. May their future be filled with hope. May God bless you with his boundless love, calming peace, and heavenly joy throughout the coming year. Happy birthday, child of God. Amen.

A Birthday Prayer For Your Son

Heavenly Father, Please bless my son for his birthday. Dear Lord, please protect and guide him as he continues along the path you’ve chosen for him. Give him the courage to follow in your light, and feel your love wherever he goes. Make him strong and give him the strength to make good decisions in the coming year. Keep him free from illness and sadness, for he is a truly good person who deserves happiness and success in all aspects of life. We know that life is like a book. We learn and grow towards what you would have us be with each new chapter. Bless my baby now on this day and in the future. In your name, we pray. Amen.

A Birthday Prayer For Your Daughter

My God, please bless my daughter with a new year full of grace and kindness. Shower your everlasting mercy on her. Guide her and keep her from treading the wrong ways and path of evil sources. Help her to grow spiritually through your divine words and everlasting love. Thank you, Lord, for hearing my prayer. You are cherished and adored birthday girl. In Jesus' name, Amen.

A Birthday Prayer For a Loved One

Dear Lord, on this day that we celebrate “insert name” ’s birth, I pray for blessings and joy over “insert name.” You knew everything about “insert name” before her birth, and You have a plan of prosperity and hope for their life! Let them feel confident and ready for the year ahead, knowing that You have an order to her steps and a purpose for their life. Help them find joy in every circumstance in life, knowing that You work all things out for good. I thank You for “insert name,” for loving them with unconditional love, and for the promises, You have spoken over her life. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Birthday Prayers For Your Wife

Thank you, Father, for the gift of my wife. You are the giver of all good and perfect blessings, and I’m amazed how You show Your love through her. Please help me to cherish such a fantastic gift. Each day, circumstances and frustrations can easily steal the joy from ________. Please keep her from letting these challenges turn her focus from You, the author of her faith.

Give my wife the joy that Jesus had as He accomplished the Father’s will on earth. May she consider each struggle as a reason to find hope in You. When she feels tired, Lord, renew her strength. Surround her with friends who love You and will bear her burdens. Give her reason to feel refreshed by their encouragement. May she know that the joy of the Lord is the source of her strength. Protect her from growing tired of doing what You’ve called her to do each day.

God, help ________ to grow first in her love for You. May she be increasingly in awe of Your power, beauty, and grace. May my wife know more each day about the depth and width of Your love and respond with increasing love of her own. Help her love me through all my failures while I learn to love her as Christ loves the church. May we see each other as You see us, and may we enjoy fulfilling each other’s desires in our marriage.

Birthday Prayers For Your Husband

Lord, with Your Word as my husband’s source of wisdom, I will rest secure in his leadership of our home. I trust Your Word to fill ____ with the insight he will need for our relationship, his work, and so much more. Your Word will unite his heart to Yours. His oneness with You will lead his pursuit of oneness with me. Your ways will become His ways.

God, send my husband an abundance of confidants whose faith in You is bold and courageous. Let them be men who do not lean on their understanding but always acknowledge You and Your Word.

Father, You inhabit the praises of Your people, and I want ____ to enjoy the comfort and power of Your presence every moment. So, Father, please grant my husband an irrevocable gift of praising You. Let Your Spirit continually offer up a sacrifice of praise through _____ so that his lips always acknowledge Your name.

Praying for someone’s health and happiness is perhaps the best gift you could give them. While you’re praying for everyone else on their birthday, don’t forget to pray for yourself when your birthday comes around. Thank God and praise Him for allowing you to see another year and ask Him to use this year for the betterment of His Kingdom.

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