Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren
June is known as the month for weddings. Here are some suggestions you can pray for your married grandchildren and/or your married children, too.
Pray, they will:
- Understand how incredibly great God’s power is to help them if they ask Him.
- Establish spiritual disciplines as part of their lives.
- Read God’s Word and pray together regularly as a couple.
- Seek God’s guidance in the management of their time, money, and careers.
- Develop open and honest communication with their spouse.
- Grasp the importance of saying, “I’m sorry,” and “I forgive you”.
- Understand there is no such thing as too many hugs.
- Honor their parents.
- Be united in spirit and intent on one purpose.
- Be able to stand against anything that might threaten their marriage firmly.
- Be prepared to establish a stable, loving Christian home for their family.
- Recognize the deception and peer pressure of the world.
Taken from the book, Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren, page. 86. Available on this website.
Lillian Penner, Author, blogger, and Co-Director of the prayer ministry of Christian Grandparenting Network, lpenner@christiangrandparenting.net
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