A Suggestion to Pray for your Grandchildren

During springtime when we see the daffodils and tulips blooming we often think of preparing our gardens. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and we always had a garden to grow our own potatoes and vegetables. As I was thinking about sowing seeds in the garden I was reminded of the fruit of the spirit in Galatians 5:22, 23. “But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” 

To produce a good crop the seed needs watering, the sunshine, weeding, and pruning. When our grandchildren enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit prepares the soil for the seed to be sown in their hearts. The soil needs to be watered with God’s Word and Jesus the Son of God must shine in their hearts for the plants to grow. After tender loving care, weeding and pruning have taken place the seeds will mature and produce a good crop.

Intentional prayer will water the seeds to make them sprout and produce the fruit of the Spirit for our grandchildren.

God will pour out his blessings on our lives when we sow seeds of prayer in the lives of our dear grandchildren. In Isaiah 44:3, God told the Israelites, “I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your descendants.” Grandparents can aggressively pray for godly seed to be sown in the lives of our grandchildren and their parents. The seeds of prayer we sow today will yield a harvest of blessing in the future. God has given us a powerful resource in the avenue of prayer to imprint the lives of the next generation.

Suggestions you can pray for your grandchildren:

• Ask God to prepare the soil of the hearts of our grandchildren.
• Pray your grandchildren will invite Jesus Christ into their hearts.
• Pray their hearts will be watered with His Word for the seed to grow.
• Pray their hearts to be controlled by the Holy Spirit.
• Pray for them to experience God’s presence and love in their hearts when they are being weeded and pruned.

I have developed thirty-one “Scriptures to Pray for Grandchildren” that many grandparents have found helpful to pray for my grandchildren. Join our mailing list on the right side of this website for updated blogs and grandparenting suggestions and I will send you a free downloadable copy of “Thirty-one Scriptures to Pray for your Grandchildren”.

By Lillian Penner, Co-Prayer Director, Christian Grandparenting Network lpenner@christiangrandparetning.net