Prayer for a birthday

Birthdays are wonderful occasions to celebrate one’s progress through life. Use these birthday prayers to bless, protect, and guide the birthday boy or girl on this special day.

A Birthday Blessing

Here is a nice prayer to say for someone who is celebrating their birthday. This blessing asks God to protect and guide the recipient through the coming year.

Renew My Strength

Heavenly Father, Please bless (name),
for today is (his/her) birthday.
Dear Lord, please protect and guide (name) as she
continues along the path youve chosen for her.
Give her the courage to follow in your light, and feel
your love wherever she goes.

Make her strong and give her the strength to make
good decisions in the coming year. Keep her free from
illness and sadness, for she is a truly good person who
deserves happiness and success in all aspects of life.

We know that life is like a book. With each new
chapter, we learn and grow towards what you would
have us be. Bless (name) now on this day, and in the future.

In your name we pray,

Amen.

Birthday Prayers for Cards

Here are a couple birthday blessing poems that would be perfect for writing in a card, or posting on someones Facebook wall. They are sure to elicit a smile from the recipient:

May God Grant you Friendship

May God grant you friendship
and warm love within your home.
May he surround you in the quiet peace
that’s found in him alone.
May his hand lead you to laughter,
and his love dry every tear.
As you sense his presence in your life
more deeply every year.

Birthday Candle Prayer

Jesus said, “I am the light of the world”

May the birthday candles that represent the years of your life.
Be a reflection to others of your love for Christ.

I said a Prayer for You Today

I said a prayer for you today
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart
Although he spoke no word!
I didn’t ask for wealth or fame
(I knew you wouldn’t mind).
I asked him to send treasures
Of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that he be near you
At the start of each new day;
To grant you health and blessings
And friends to share your way!
I asked for happiness for you
In all things great and small.
But it was for his loving care
I prayed the most of all!
Amen.

Prayer to have a Happy Birthday Celebration

Here is a blessing to help ensure that one has a happy birthday celebration. Birthdays should be a time of happiness and merriment.

O God, Please ensure that (name)
has a happy and celebratory birthday.
I pray that (name) is surrounded by family
and friends as she marks the passing
of another year.

In your name I pray

Amen.

Prayer for a Newborn Baby’s Birthday

Lets not forget the most important birthday of all. A baby’s first!

God bless this perfect little one,
Keep him safe and sound.
Bless his tiny hands and feet,
so he may conquer and defeat.
Brighten up his spiritual eyes,
so that he may undoubtedly become wise.
Bless his cute little mouth,
So your name he can shout.
But most of all bless his little mind,
to stay heavenly divine.
Oh! And don’t forget to bless his parents too
For the big job they got to do.
Amen.

Read Birthday Bible Verses

“Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?”

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Birthdays are a wonderful time to celebrate the life God has given us and to encourage our friends and family with uplifting words. Below is a collection of Birthday Prayers and encouragements to give to someone on their special day! 

A Birthday Prayer for someone in your life:

Dear Lord, on this day that we celebrate “insert name”’s birth, I pray for blessings and joy over “insert name”. You knew everything about “insert name” before her birth and You have a plan of prosperity and hope for her life! Let her feel confident and ready for the year ahead knowing that You have an order to her steps and a purpose for her life. Help her to find joy in every circumstance in life, knowing that You work all things out for good. I thank You for “insert name”, for loving her with unconditional love, and for the promises You have spoken over her life. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Irish Blessing (great for encouraging friends and family on their birthday!)

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm on your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

May God be with you and bless you,
May you see your children’s children.
May you be poor misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
May you know nothing but happiness From this day forward.

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind always be at your back,
May the warm rays of sun fall upon your home,
And may the hand of a friend always be near.

May green be the grass you walk on,
May blue be the sky above you,
May pure be the joys that surround you,
May true be the hears that love you.

Psalm 139 Birthday Prayer (The Message Bible)

Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, the days of my life all prepared before I’ve even lived one day. Your Thoughts – how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them – any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

Bible Verses for Celebrating Birthdays

Celebrate God’s blessing of life with these Bible verses that are perfect for sending to someone on their birthday. Every life is precious and God has a plan for every baby that is born. The Bible is filled with promises of hope and a future. Take time on your birthday or the birthday of a family member or friend to remember that God is the giver of life and He loves you!

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. – Ephesians 2:10

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11

Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun. – Psalm 37: 4-6

Read more Bible verses that are great for birthdays and send a free birthday ecard! 

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 My privilege and my proof, pressing your eternal skin to mine— I feel your fingers touching down on the crown of my head   where I pray they remain during this life and in the next.   The intricacies of your world astound me.  You flickered through the rooms where my mother dwelt, when I was naked and formless as a seal, sensitive   to the tides of her body.  I did not come too early onto land,  did not emerge until my days were written  on the translucent pages of your enormous book. The great lid of your eye peeled back to see I was not yet whole.  I remember today the day of my birth. Your words washed that which clung to me from the other side,   bound to me the promised ghost.   I was dipped and sponged, cut free,   delivered as I was like a lamb lodged in his dam.  Tears and pain were her price, and I was handed over to be wiped with straw.    You built me, bone by bone, counting the hairs that would one day thatch my crown,  building cleverness in my hands, weakness in my knees,  a squint and a taste for cake.  You showed me   the dip of a man’s clavicle, arrow of ankle and calf,  weaving in me a love of those bodies like my own,   yet not mine.  When you turned to your next task a shadow crossed the room stirred from the muddy banks   rimed with ice.  In the spot where my skull was soft it set down its stylus and inked a bruise—  a scrap used to blot a leaking pen.  Since then my mind has raced toward the brink, spun  and knit and torn out the same silvery threads only to wind them up again.  Still, the bargain  you made without my consent has left me  here to ponder your airy limbs striding through the sky,  the red rustle of your gown.  A season ago, I looked out upon the verdure of the small meadow below the house—boggy in parts—  the pollard willows gnarling and sipping from gnat-speckled pools, the turkeys scratching under the sweep of green  as it prepared to die back for another year, littered with mute papery tongues. You are easier to see when you denude your world with decay.    And so I saw you there, flashed in the shallow water, parting the curtain of the willow fronds and warming my face with light.  My mother and father call me and sing, sweet and tuneless, their voices worn down by your turning wheel.  You have kept us together for half a man’s natural years, these last the tenderest as their bodies   break and their minds dip deeper into dust to bring forth the features of distance.  My day will be spent here, in the middle of things,  feeding split logs into the stove, cats coiling through rooms  as the snow ticks at the windows’ double panes. I will read a book with snow at its center,  in a forest lost inside a forest in the north, the sun an afterthought in the darkest days of the year.  I am thankful for all that buffers me from the cold, all that binds me to my clan,   though I see a future strange and tuneless as I push forward into the mind’s blinding field of white.

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 My privilege and my proof, pressing your eternal skin to mine— I feel your fingers touching down on the crown of my head   where I pray they remain during this life and in the next.   The intricacies of your world astound me.  You flickered through the rooms where my mother dwelt, when I was naked and formless as a seal, sensitive   to the tides of her body.  I did not come too early onto land,  did not emerge until my days were written  on the translucent pages of your enormous book. The great lid of your eye peeled back to see I was not yet whole.  I remember today the day of my birth. Your words washed that which clung to me from the other side,   bound to me the promised ghost.   I was dipped and sponged, cut free,   delivered as I was like a lamb lodged in his dam.  Tears and pain were her price, and I was handed over to be wiped with straw.    You built me, bone by bone, counting the hairs that would one day thatch my crown,  building cleverness in my hands, weakness in my knees,  a squint and a taste for cake.  You showed me   the dip of a man’s clavicle, arrow of ankle and calf,  weaving in me a love of those bodies like my own,   yet not mine.  When you turned to your next task a shadow crossed the room stirred from the muddy banks   rimed with ice.  In the spot where my skull was soft it set down its stylus and inked a bruise—  a scrap used to blot a leaking pen.  Since then my mind has raced toward the brink, spun  and knit and torn out the same silvery threads only to wind them up again.  Still, the bargain  you made without my consent has left me  here to ponder your airy limbs striding through the sky,  the red rustle of your gown.  A season ago, I looked out upon the verdure of the small meadow below the house—boggy in parts—  the pollard willows gnarling and sipping from gnat-speckled pools, the turkeys scratching under the sweep of green  as it prepared to die back for another year, littered with mute papery tongues. You are easier to see when you denude your world with decay.    And so I saw you there, flashed in the shallow water, parting the curtain of the willow fronds and warming my face with light.  My mother and father call me and sing, sweet and tuneless, their voices worn down by your turning wheel.  You have kept us together for half a man’s natural years, these last the tenderest as their bodies   break and their minds dip deeper into dust to bring forth the features of distance.  My day will be spent here, in the middle of things,  feeding split logs into the stove, cats coiling through rooms  as the snow ticks at the windows’ double panes. I will read a book with snow at its center,  in a forest lost inside a forest in the north, the sun an afterthought in the darkest days of the year.  I am thankful for all that buffers me from the cold, all that binds me to my clan,   though I see a future strange and tuneless as I push forward into the mind’s blinding field of white.

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