God’s Blessing on Your Kids
Godly parents should expect to be able to pray for the healing of their children. God’s Word promises many blessings to the offspring of the person who serves God. (The word seed is used of offspring frequently in Scripture.)
In Numbers 25:3-13, the children of a priest who was zealous for God were to be honored.
Deuteronomy 28:4 says to those who hearken diligently to God’s voice and do His commandments: “Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body.”
Deuteronomy 7:12-15 promises a blessing on the “fruit of your womb” if you obey God’s commandments. Your righteousness in Christ gives you the same status as if you HAD obeyed God’s commandments, so this promise belongs to you.
Deuteronomy 11:18-21 contains a promise of long life for your children when you teach them the Word of God consistently.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 says that you and your seed shall live when you choose life.
You are not under the Law of Moses. Christ has redeemed you from all curses contained in that Law that spoke of the punishments for breaking it. However, Christ has not “redeemed” you from the blessings in the Law. These blessings are yours because they belonged to anyone who kept the Law. Now that you are the righteousness of God in Christ, God can confer the same blessings on you that He could have under the Law if you had kept the entire Law.
Psalm 112:1-2 says that the children of the upright shall be mighty on the earth and blessed.
Your kids even get a financial blessing because you are righteous:
Psalm 37:25:
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Matthew 15:22-28, Mark 7:25-30 and John 4:46-53 are examples of people who received something on behalf of their children.
A note in case you’re wondering: I left out Acts 16:31 on purpose (“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”) because it doesn’t mean what most people think it does, namely that all your family has to get saved if you get saved. If Paul thought that were true, preaching to the jailer alone would have assured “household salvation” once he was saved, but Paul preached to the others as well in the next verse (Acts 16:32: “And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house”). The others in the house needed to hear the gospel and receive Christ for themselves as well. Thus, they also had to be baptized individually (Acts 16:33). Also, we know that Paul did not believe in guaranteed “household salvation” because he wrote the following instructions in 1 Corinthians 7:15-16 about someone who had an unsaved spouse who wanted to leave: “But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?” He said this instead of saying, “Husband of the unbeliever, stand on God’s promise, and you know, O man, that without question thou shalt save thy wife.” Finally, God’s command not to marry an unbeliever (2 Corinthians 6:14-16) would be needless if “household salvation” were guaranteed because the unbeliever would be sure to be get saved anyway after becoming part of your household. So be warned that God does not endorse “missionary marriages” where you try to talk your new spouse into getting saved!
Jesus said that your own household members might put you to death in the last days. Surely they would not do that if they were all believers!
Mark 13:12:
Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son, and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
I think that’s enough proof that Acts 16:31 (quoted above) has been misapplied.
Anyway, you should expect the blessing of God to rest on your children, and this includes the blessing of healing. This is one reason that you can pray and get results for your kids when they don’t yet know how to do so for themselves. When they get older, though, they will need to believe for themselves and you will not be able to carry them on your faith. That is why you must teach your children the Word so that they will know how to apply it in their own lives, and the lives of their young children!