Are you an aunt looking to encourage your nieces? Use these Birthday Prayers For My Niece to write in a card, pray, and bless her in the coming year.
Celebrate your niece’s special birthday with a prayer that emphasizes the deep love, encouragement, blessings, worth, and profound gratitude that you feel toward her.
Birthdays are a very special time of year when friends and family gather nearby to celebrate the special impact that a person has on our lives. An aunt has a unique and very special role in the life of her nieces. Whether you live nearby or further away, an aunt can show love, adoration, respect, joy, and delight in the life of her niece without having the added responsibility of enforcing discipline. This allows an aunt to be a very influential role model, encourager, and source of inspiration for her young niece.
Praying for your niece and the life she lives is a very powerful way to encourage and be involved in a positive way in her life. Through our prayers, we can seek protection, look after their health, encourage and inspire, promote healthy and positive values, and play a role in their spiritual nurture and development. Praying for your niece is one of the most important and influential you can do to bless her.
It is a considerable privilege to be able to participate in the guidance of your niece’s young life and it will reap ongoing benefits and rewards in her life as God moves in her heart and soul, drawing her toward Him. Here are a few prayers that are provided for you as examples of some of the wonderful ways that you can bless, encourage, and nurture your niece on her birthday, encouraging her to be the best version of herself and the person God has created her to be.
Birthday Prayers For My Niece

1. A Short Prayer With Happy Birthday Wishes
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.
– Numbers 6:24-26
Dear Lord,
Thank You so much for blessing me with the life of my niece. I know that You created her in Your own image with love and joy and delight, forming her with a specific plan and holy purpose that You are calling her to carry out as she lives each day of her life.
Lord, may my niece rejoice and celebrate her birthday today as she fully realizes what an amazing person she is and the indescribable worth and value she has as a child created by God. She is a beautiful person with so much potential to make a difference in this world and I am so grateful that she is my niece.
Please pour out Your blessings into her life and let her feel the depth of Your love and delight in her. May my niece have a delightful happy birthday today as we celebrate her life. Thank You, God, for my niece!
In Christ’s Name, I Pray These Things,
Amen
2. A Birthday Prayer For The Coming Year
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.
Then you will call on Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.
– Jeremiah 29:11-13
Dear Father God,
I surrender the life of my niece into Your hands. Please watch over her and order her steps that may follow Your will for her life all of her days. I especially pray for her life over the next year. Help her make good decisions and may goodness, kindness, patience, and compassion pursue her in all that she does.
Please give her strength and courage to overcome every challenge and obstacle in her life. May she worship You with joy and may thankfulness and gratitude overflow from her heart in all she does. Help her to honor her parents and teachers and be kind to her siblings and friends. Protect her from harm and any attack of the enemy to steal her joy and love of you.
Lord, You are so good and I am so excited to see the ways in which You plan to move in her life over the next year. May she fall more in love with You and may Your Spirit move in powerful ways in her life. Thank You for Your faithfulness.
In the Father God I Trust,
Amen
3. A Prayer That She Would Feel God’s Unconditional Love
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
– Romans 8:37-39
Dear Precious Savior,
I am so grateful for the deep, deep love that You have for my niece. I pray that You would embrace her with Your unconditional love and allow her to understand how precious she is to You. Please remove any emotional and spiritual barriers that are preventing her from receiving Your love, and allow her to accept how approved, valuable, and important she is to You.
Thank You that You promise that there is absolutely no situation or force on the face of the earth that is big enough to separate us from the love of God. Please overcome every challenge and use anything necessary to reveal Your deep, fathomless love to my niece. I long for her to feel Your warm embrace and to be completely secure in Your arms.
Reveal Yourself to my niece today in an empowering and rejuvenating new way. Give her a big hug and help her to never doubt the powerful love of God that gives us strength and reminds us of how Christ gave His very life so that we can live a true, abundant life in You. Praise You, Jesus!
Thank You, Lord,
Amen
4. A Prayer For Good Health
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health
and that all may go well with you,
even as your soul is getting along well.
– 3 John 1:2
Dear Father God,
I thank You that You are our Healer and Provider of all our needs. I pray that You would take especially good care of my niece, watching over her and ensuring that she enjoys good health throughout her life. Please protect her from anything that might try to harm her mind, body, and soul. Give her the strength she needs to live each day with motivation, determination, and perseverance.
If she experiences any pain or injuries, I pray that You touch her body and heal her quickly by the power of Your Holy Spirit. May her healing confirm how much You love and adore her and testify to her friends what a loving and powerful God we serve. Thank You for all the ways You protect and provide for us every single day, often in ways we never see.
I know You are a good God and I trust that You will provide good health for my niece’s life as You walk side by side with her every single day. I thank You for all Your good gifts.
In the Good and Powerful Name of God, I Pray,
Amen
5. A Prayer For A Wonderful Birthday Celebration
For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
– Psalm 139:13-14
Dear Lord Jesus,
I praise You for creating my niece and placing her in my life. She is such an amazing person and I have been so blessed by the privilege of getting to be a part of her life. I praise You that we can celebrate her precious life by having a special birthday celebration in her honor today. May she experience an abundance of love, joy, and gratitude through her birthday celebration today.
I pray that as we celebrate my niece’s birthday, she will acknowledge how many talents and gifts You have given her. May she strive to honor You with her life and live out kindness, goodness, patience, gentleness, humility, and grace each and every day of her life. Help her to see that You long to use her life to make a difference in the world and the lives of those around her.
Thank You for this wonderful opportunity we have to celebrate the birthday of my niece and rejoice in the person she is becoming. May she feel our love and joy embrace her life and may the joy of the Lord overflow from her life.
Rejoicing in the Name of Jesus Christ,
Amen
6. A Prayer For Much Joy
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him,
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
– Romans 15:13
Dear Sweet Jesus,
I love my niece so much, and I long for her to be able to experience the joy of the Lord in her life as she walks through life each day. I pray that You, Jesus, will touch her heart in transforming ways and allow the joy of Christ to bubble forth in her life from deep within. May all those who are near to my niece feel the overwhelming joy and hope and love that naturally and freely flow from her life as a gift from God.
Lord, I pray that my niece will not become stressed or discouraged by the heavy burdens of this world. Instead, help her to trust in You as Your delightful joy flows from her life. Help her to keep her eyes fixed on You and the promises You whisper to our hearts, rather than to focus on the negative and discouraging situations in her life. May there be a bounce in her step and excitement in her tone of voice because the joy of the Lord is so evident in her life.
Holy Spirit, thank You for the gift of joy and hope that You will impart to my niece as she walks by faith each day of her precious young life. You are so faithful, God!
In the Delightful Name of Christ, I Pray,
Amen
7. A Prayer Of Thanks For The Special Gift That She Is
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love
and His wonderful deeds for mankind.
Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of His works with songs of joy.
– Psalm 107:21-22
Dear Lord Jesus,
I come to You today just rejoicing in the special person my niece is becoming and with a special prayer of gratitude for her life. I thank You for placing her in my life and allowing me to see the beautiful and mature person she is growing into as she gets older. Thank You for the unique personality You have placed within her and the ways she frequently blesses the lives of others through her unique giftedness.
Thank You for the special talents and gifts You have given to my niece and the ways You are calling her to use her passions in order to live out the special plans and purposes for her life. Thank You for the special way You have wired her heart and the unique curiosity You have placed in her mind as she explores the world around her. It is so exciting to see her grow and mature into such a beautiful person who values her friends and honors her family through the ways she lives her life.
What an inspiration she is to me! Thank You so much for placing this special young woman in my life and allowing me to see Your hand guiding and encouraging her to grow into a phenomenal human being. Thank You, Lord, for Your goodness!
Giving All Thanks and Praise to God Almighty,
Amen
8. A Prayer For Spiritual Growth
For this reason, since the day we heard about you,
we have not stopped praying for you.
We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will
through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way:
bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might
so that you may have great endurance and patience.
– Colossians 1:9-11
Dear Holy Spirit,
I thank You for the deep love You have for my niece and the ways that I see You moving in her life. I am so grateful for all the ways she is growing and maturing, but my deepest desire is that she would experience deeper intimacy with God in her life and grow spiritually as she gets older. I pray that she would pursue You through heartfelt worship, passionate reading of Your Word regularly, and a deep desire to present personal requests before You in trusting prayer.
Lord, I know that the most important thing in my niece’s life is to develop an intimate relationship with You that she maintains in every aspect of her life. Help her to use the spiritual gifts You have blessed her with to serve God and others as she grows in her confidence in using these gifts. Please put spiritual mentors in her life who can be a positive role model as to how to live the Christian life each day while facing the stresses of the world in which we live.
Thank You that You have a good and perfect plan for my niece’s life. May she grow spiritually as she pursues carrying out Your will for her life and may we as her family and friends do our best to support her along this journey. Thank You, Spirit, for moving and working in her life. Be glorified in her!
In the Faithful Name of the Holy Spirit, I Come,
Amen
9. A Prayer For Her To Make Good Decisions
Teach me Your way, Lord, that I may rely on Your faithfulness;
give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
I will praise You, Lord, my God, with all my heart; I will glorify Your Name forever.
– Psalm 86:11-12
Dear Precious Lord,
I thank You that You are constantly present with my niece, promising never to leave or abandon her. I pray that as she grows older, she will become more and more familiar with the sound of Your voice, learning how to discern the nudges and whispers of Your Spirit from all the other influences in her life. I pray that You will give her the wisdom to make good and righteous decisions that will allow her to have a solid foundation of holy truth in her life.
Lord, please cause my niece to seek Your way above all other things in her life. Show her the path that leads to rejuvenating, abundant life and please steer her away from all the other paths that only distract and are not in her best interest. Help her seek Your guidance in all the decisions she needs to make, both big and small. May she pursue wisdom and truth all the days of her life, grounding herself in Your Word to guide and direct her steps.
Thank You, Lord, for holding her hand as she makes wise decisions for her life. Reveal Your Truth to her in all things and remind her that Your Spirit lives within her to help her be successful throughout her journey through life. I praise You, Jesus, for all the ways You provide for us.
To God Be the Glory,
Amen
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