Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren
Scriptures to Pray for College Students
College students need praying grandparents who will intentionally pray for them. This portion of their journey may be difficult since they have many decisions to make. Such as management of their time for their studies, making new friends, living with roommates, finances, dating, activities etc. The enemy wants to distract and steal them from having any faith in Jesus. Text them to let them know you are praying for them.
Today, young people also have many options that some find it difficult to make a decision of even going to college or going to work after high school. Pray they will ask God to help them make their decisions and allow Him to direct their path if they are going to college or wherever.
I am sharing 14 Scriptures you can pray for your college-aged grandchildren. I hope you will find them helpful as you pray intentionally pray they will seek God’s direction.
Dear Father, I pray that: (Insert your child’s name)
1. Peace ________ will not worry about anything but pray about everything. Philippians 4:6
- Protection from the Enemy________ will be alert and watch out for the temptations from the enemy, standing firm in his/her faith. I Peter 5:8, 9
- Responsibility________ will learn to be responsible for his/her own actions and behavior. Galatians 6:5
- Salvation ________ will believe that Jesus loves him/her and died for his/her sins so he/she can have a personal relationship with you and enjoy eternal life. John 3:16
- Security_________ will always remember that you will never leave nor forsake him/her. Joshua 1:5,6
- Self-control ________will live in this evil world with self-control, right conduct and devotion to God. Titus 2:12
- Servant’s Heart ________will develop a servant’s heart, serving wholeheartedly, as to the Lord and not men. Eph. 6:7
- Anxiety__________will cast all his/her anxieties and disappointments on you. I Peter 5:7
- Spiritual Growth _______will be rooted and built up in his/her faith, growing strong in the truth as he/she is taught. Colossians 2:7
- Guard ________ will guard his/her heart, for it is the wellspring of his/her life. Proverbs 4:23
- Thankfulness _______ will learn to give thanks in everything, no matter what happens. I Thessalonians 5:18
- Timidity/Fear _______ will not have a spirit of fear and timidity, but the spirit of power, love, and self-discipline. II Tim. 1:7
- Wisdom When ________ needs wisdom, he/she will ask you for it, for You are waiting for him/her to ask. James 1:5
- Hunger for God’s Word ___________will hunger and thirst for your Word. Matthew 5:6
I have developed “Thirty-one Scriptures to Pray for Grandchildren” that many grandparents are using to pray for their grandchildren. Just by joining the mailing list to receive my grandparenting blogs and prayer suggestions to pray for your grandchildren, sign up on the right side of this page. I will send you a free downloadable copy of “Thirty-one Scriptures to Pray for your Grandchildren”.
By Lillian Penner, Co-Prayer Director of Christian Grandparenting Network, lpenner@christiangrandparenting.net
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