Do your Grandchildren Shock you with their Culture?

A friend of mine recently spent the weekend with some of her children and her grandchildren. She says, “It was shocking to see how fast my four grandchildren are growing up and the challenges they are facing. It gave me much stimulus for thought and prayer and I am experiencing a lot of heartache over the world they are growing up in and concern over their response to it.  It breaks my heart to see my sweet grandkids living in such a Godless culture.” I can identify with those thoughts and I am hearing those thoughts expressed by many grandparents.

Ask your grandchildren about their friends, their teachers and their activities, what is going on in their world and how they feel about it. Don’t respond alarmed if their response isn’t what you want to hear, if you do, they may not feel open to share with you next time. Keep an open mind and open ears so you know how to pray for them.

An aggressive attack is being launched by using media, technology, education, social influences, and political pressures to desensitize and cloud the boundaries of truth that holds our families together. The enemy’s attacks against our families and our nation’s moral foundations are relentless and growing worse with time.  

However, Daniel, the one in the lion’s den for not obeying the king, stood strong for God in a very complicated ungodly culture. Today, let’s stand in the gap for our grandchildren, praying they will stand strong for God. Just as Esther stood in the gap for her people, the Israelites when their lives were threatened physically, we, their grandparents must stand in the gap for the spiritual lives of our grandchildren.

• Pray your grandchildren will invite Jesus into their hearts.

• Pray your grandchildren will grow strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.¹

• Pray your grandchildren will recognize the difference of truth and deception in their culture so they can flee from it.
• Pray your grandchildren will respect authority and pray for those in authority over them, their parents, teachers, and others.

Our hope for the future generation can only be in the Lord Jesus Christ, not in this complex evil world.

Please share in the comments – What are you doing to stand in the gap for your grandchildren?

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By Lillian Penner, National Prayer Coordinator, Christian Grandparenting Network, pennerlp@gmail.com