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The Couch Potato Dad
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber. Proverbs 6:4
This is the Dad that goes to work, comes home and just sits and or lays on the couch and watches TV or plays with his PlayStation, and may eventually fall asleep. Lord, let him know that his children need him. Don’t continue to allow the dad to think his presence in the house is everything that they need. Let the Couch Potato Dad know he needs to take an active role in raising their children. Let the Couch Potato Dad have open communication with the children.
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Dismiss this dad’s wrong thinking. Allow him to value his role as a dad and to take his role seriously. Let him know that his role is important to the development of his children. Allow him to help the children with their homework and attend important school events.
I pray that You will help the Couch Potato Dad, get off the couch and start taking part in his child’s life, like attending extracurricular activities that the child may be a part of. Allow the Dad to know that he is blessed to have children, and that they grow up very fast. Allow him to go with his wife, or meet
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the child’s mothers, at the school to find out about the progress of the child or children.
Let the Couch Potato Dad know he needs to exercise and not just sit on the couch for health reasons. At times, allow him to go outside with his child to play and walk with his child. Lord, I pray the Couch Potato Dad will not end up with any diagnoses that are associated with a sedentary lifestyle such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and/or heart problems. I pray that if his organs have already started to become affected, You will restore them.
PRAYERS FOR THE CHILDREN
Lord, I pray for the children of the Couch Potato Dad. I pray that You will redeem the time that was lost when their Dad was a Couch Potato. I pray that they will have a great relationship now that he is involved in their activities of daily living or other events that are important to them. Allow him to ask his seed about how their day went at school and or work.
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