10 Short Morning Prayers For Kids – Free Printable!
Do you usually begin your day with prayer and reading God’s Word? It’s a great way to not only grow in love and knowledge of Him, but keep our focus heavenward as we go throughout our day.
But what about your kids? Teach them to begin their day off right with these short, daily morning prayers for kids to repeat!
The Benefits of Morning Prayers For Kids
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Morning prayers for kids are SO important, for so many different reasons!
When we begin our day with our focus on God, we start that day with the right mindset.
Isaiah 55:9 says that His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are higher than ours. That means we want to take on the mind of Christ, so we can stay in tune with the Holy Spirit throughout the day.
How do we do this? Praying first thing in the morning!
It’s so important for us as parents to have our own quiet time/morning routine, and the best way we can teach our children this is to lead by example.
Does that mean our circumstances will change? Not necessarily. But do we know what will? Our attitudes and responses towards those.
We want to make sure our children are prayed over, and equip them to be able to pray powerful prayers on their own, and lay those biblical foundations of praying and reading God’s Word alongside them.
There are so many benefits to morning prayers for kids, some including:
- Deepening their relationship with the Lord
- Starting the day with the mind of Christ
- Learning spiritual disciplines early
- Being protected from the enemy’s schemes
You can also encourage them to read their Bibles or read with them during your morning basket routine, praying together and helping them pray on their own as well.
These morning prayers are a great tool for guiding your children in prayer, no matter their ages! They are short so even younger children can memorize and repeat them, and older kids can expand on them and personalize as they grow.
So how do we teach these morning prayers to our kids and/or when do we start? I’m glad you asked…
Teaching Your Kids To Pray In The Morning
There are many ways to say morning prayers! The reason we do so in the morning is again, to take on the mind of Christ before our day begins.
I’m not going to lie, it’s so tempting to want to grab my phone or turn on the TV when we get up, but God wants us to give our FIRST (and all) to Him.
But it starts with your developing your own quiet time routine with God in the morning. This may mean aking up before your kids so you can have those first few minutes of peace.
However, I understand that doesn’t always happen!
It’s okay to let your kids see you reading the Bible; in fact, there are a lot of benefits to that! The point is to make sure you are leading them by example, and that you have a God-focused mindset to help your children too.
Here is how you can teach your children to start their day with prayers:
- Let me wake up to see you reading and praying
- Read and pray these prayers during your morning basket time
- Before breakfast, sit with them and repeat these morning prayers
- Pray with them at night time and remind them to pray each morning too
- Download the printable morning prayers at the bottom of this post and tape them up in their rooms!
Also, what is SO beneficial about these morning prayers is that they are short, simple, and rooted in scripture. Praying God’s Word is SO powerful and something we want our children to understand.
**For more tips on developing your own morning routine check out this post here; best study Bibles for women here; free SOAP Bible study worksheet here!
10 Short Morning Prayers For Kids To Repeat
Now that you’ve got a plan in place and understand why it’s so important for our children to pray morning prayers, here are 10 powerful (and short!) morning prayers for kids to repeat each day.
Each one includes a short prayer point for them to pray, with a scripture included (encourage them to pray the scripture as well by reading it out loud, or by you reading it with them!).
Without further ado, here are 10 children’s morning prayers to repeat each day…
1. Simple General Morning Prayer
This is a prayer that can be said every day, and a great start when introducing your kids to morning prayer time.
Prayer: Father God, thank you for this new day. Help me to use it wisely and to do things that will please you. I pray for your thoughts, not my own, and that I will be a blessing to others. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:9 NIV
2. Prayer For A New Day
Each day that God gives us is a blessing, and this prayer will help your children remember that every day is a blessing from Him!
Prayer: Father God, thank you for this new day. Each day you give us is a blessing and another opportunity to glorify you. Help me honor you today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
“Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22 NIV
3. Morning Prayer For Thankfulness
Beginning our day with thanksgiving not only renews our mind and gets the focus off of ourselves, but also reminds us of what God has done for us!
Prayer: Father God, thank you for who you are and for this day. Remind me to give thanks in every situation, and know that you are good always. Thank you. Amen.
“Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 NIV
4. Prayer For Family
Teaching children to pray for their families is a beautiful thing and something we each do because we love one another. God has given us a beautiful gift in our families.
Prayer: Father God, thank you so much for my family. Help me to bless them today. I pray that you will help me humble myself and put others before me. Amen.
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.” Philippians 2:3 CSB
5. Prayer For Friends
We know how important it is to watch for the company we keep in friends. The Bible is FULL of wisdom in this area, and it’s something we want our kids, especially to be mindful of.
Prayer: Father God, help me to choose my friends wisely. Surround me with friends who will encourage me with your Word. Also, help me to be a blessing to my friends. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
“The righteous choose their friends carefully, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.” Proverbs 12:26 NIV
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17 NIV
6. Prayer For Attitude
Can any other mom relate to their children having a poor attitude?? I know I’m not alone!
This is why it’s so important to pray for the mind of Christ and the right attitude in our parenting, and encourage our kids to do so with this prayer as well…
Prayer: Father God, help me to act like Jesus today. Help me to respond to people like you would. Help me follow Jesus’ example. In your name I pray, Amen.
“Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV
7. Affirming Morning Prayer
Our children need to be affirmed, and not by the world but by the WORD. Let this prayer remind them of God‘s promises, and who they are in Christ.
Here are some printable bible affirmations for your kids – you can print these cards out, laminate them and give them to your kids each day!
Prayer: Father God, thank you for making me a new creation. Remind me that I don’t have to live like I used to. Because of Jesus, you have forgiven me and made me new. Amen.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
8. Prayer For God To Guide Me
This prayer focuses on helping our kids trust in God fully – remind them that our hearts will deceive us, but following GOd’s path will always lead us in the right direction!
Prayer: Father God, I ask that you would guide me today. Help me trust you and lean on you today. My heart doesn’t always tell me the truth, but your Word will lead me on the right path. Amen.
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
9. Rhyming Morning Prayer
Rhyming verses, phrases, and prayers stick with us so much better, and kids are no different! Here is a simple rhyming morning prayer for kids.
Prayer: Teach me now my heart to raise
In a morning hymn of praise;
And for Jesus’ sake I pray,
Bless and keep me through the day.
-Robert Brett
“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good. His love endures forever.” Psalm 136:1 NIV
10. Lord’s Prayer
What better way to end these short morning prayers for kids than with the one JESUS prayed?! Jesus taught us to pray in this way, and it’s such an important one for kids (and all believers) to memorize!
Prayer:
“So then, this is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.”
Download Your Free Printable Morning Prayers For Kids
I pray that these morning prayers bless your children, and that they grow more and more in knowledge and love f the Lord.
You can download all these morning prayers and hang them up as a good morning prayer reminder.
Feel free to laminate these (we love this pink laminator from Amazon here) and hang them up on your kid’s doors, bathroom mirror, dresser, or even on the fridge! Somewhere where they will see it and be reminded to pray first thing in the morning. 🙂
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Download Your 10 Morning Prayers For Kids HERE.
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Children’s Morning Prayers To Start Their Day Right
These morning prayers are sure to transform your children’s prayer lives, or begin a solid routine for them to talk with God each and every day!
Encourage them to spend daily time with God, and even include them in on your routine to teach them how to pray and why it’s so important. 🙂
What does your children’s morning prayer routine look like? Let me know below!
This is my second day with you and your faith, love and caring for children.
I have a very special young boy that on Sundays we do a one on one.
Plus Im part of a small sunday school class.
Your ideas are GREAT….
You have already given me wonderful and new ideas for the children.
Thank You So Much
D.D. Adams
Thank you so much for the kind words! So happy to have you here. 🙂