THE YOKE OF THE INFANTS

 “Arise, cry out in the night; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.  Lift up your hands toward Him for the lives of your young children”.  Lamentations 2:19

When God tells His child to do something, it is always layered with future implications.  God has been speaking to me about signing up to work in the infant nursery at our church. I was surprised, but when He confirmed it through a stray conversation I had with a woman who had just resigned from nursery duty, I knew I had heard correctly.

The call to work in the nursery might seem simple.  Years ago, I would have thought so.  Go to the nursery.  Volunteers are needed.  

I am also on a small intercessory team that meets during the service.  While in prayer, the Lord spoke to us about praying for the infants in the church, for the unholy yokes of the fathers to be broken.  “Ah, so that’s what this is about!” I said to the Lord.  “I will rock children and pray for their spiritual freedom.”

The spiritual needs of infants are invisible.  All look innocent.  Yet God’s call is clear to cry out for them.  If God is out to save children, we can be sure that Satan is out to harm and destroy them.  What is it we can pray:  

Lord, Break the unrighteous generational yokes.  Apply the influence of righteous family members.  I bless the children to hear Your voice and to respond to the call for adoption. Give them a heart to know You and to hate sin.  Cancel the enemy’s plan to harm them, even to snuff out their life prematurely.  I plead Your blood over them.  Anoint them with Your Holy Spirit and power!  Set your mighty angels in charge, all around, to guard their footsteps.  

The Spirit of the Lord aches for the unborn and for the newly born, the ones whose hearts can be freed to know and worship their Creator.