Weekly Prayer for your Grandchildren #18

The lives of our grandchildren are full of choices and decisions.  Peer pressure from friends can make it hard for our grandchildren to make the right choices even though they know what is right and best. Our grandchildren need to learn at an early age that Jesus is waiting for them to ask him to help them make the right choices.

Encouraging the children to learn and memorize God’s Word will help them to stand firm, to know what is right, and to refuse the wrong. It is never too early for us to pray for our grandchildren regarding essential choices and turning points in their lives, especially as they become teenagers. From our experience, we know how early decisions shape a person’s life in significant ways: choice of friends, educational choices, career moves, marriage partners, which church to attend.

Make Good Deliberate Choices

Our grandchildren must make deliberate choices to avoid the ungodly attitudes and influences of this world. A discerning heart is one that is perceptive to godly choices. Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to guide our prayers according to his plan for them as they make important choices.”   However, our grandchildren have to choose to cooperate with God.

Encourage your grandchildren to make wise choices by reflecting godly qualities in their life that differentiate one from the world in today’s godless society.

Pray your grandchildren will choose:

• To have a personal relationship with God.
• To live in such a way to find favor with God and man.
• To be careful how they live and make godly choices.
• What is right and reject what is wrong.

Helpful Scriptures  His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these, he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you can participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. II Peter 1:3-4

Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. Ephesians 5:15

 “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best. . . “ Philippians 1:9, 10

By Lillian Penner, Co-Prayer director for Christian Grandparenting Network, lpenner@christiangrandparenting.net