Psalm 78: let us teach our children of God

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;

incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

I will open my mouth in a parable;

I will utter dark sayings from of old,

things that we have heard and known,

that our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their children,

but tell to the coming generation

the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,

and the wonders that he has done.

He established a testimony in Jacob

and appointed a law in Israel,

which he commanded our fathers

to teach to their children,

that the next generation might know them,

the children yet unborn,

and arise and tell them to their children,

so that they should set their hope in God

and not forget the works of God,

but keep his commandments;

and that they should not be like their fathers,

a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation whose heart was not steadfast,

whose spirit was not faithful to God. (Psalm 78:1-8 ESV)

God I am excited at the hope that one day I might have a family if it is in your will. I look forward in the right timing to bringing up and raising up children into it ways God. But I am afraid because their faith is their own and between you and them God. I desperately hope they would come to know you God and hope in you and arise to live faithfully to you God passing your gospel to others and to their children. God I am afraid, but I want to prayerfully trust this in your hands. God if it is your will for me to marry and raise children I pray I would be faithful to you in raising them. I pray I would teach them of your deeds from creation to the cross through the church to my faith and on into your promise of eternity. I pray my wife and I would depend on you in raising them. I pray I would balance my work even in ministry with caring for and raising my family in your ways God. Thank you for the great joy and great responsibility of raising a family.
Amen