Prayers for the Fruit of the Spirit for your Grandchildren

As our grandchildren, grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ, allowing the Holy Spirit to control their lives they will produce a harvest of the fruit of the Spirit manifested in their lives. 

Suggestions to Pray for the Fruit of the Spirit

Love

Love is an intense feeling of tender affection and compassion. It is unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another: 

• Ask God to plant His love in the hearts of your grandchildren so they will constantly be aware of His presence at all times.
• Pray they will invite Him into their hearts and be rooted and established in His love and His Word.
• Pray they will allow God’s love to flow through them to their families, friends, and others. 

Joy

Joy is a feeling of great pleasure, or to delight in something, or evoked by well-being and success.

• Ask God to plant a joyful happy heart in your grandchildren.
• Pray they will find joy in being successful in school and their other activities.
• Enable them to experience the joy of the Lord to be their strength, especially when going through difficult circumstances.

Peace

Peace is a state of calmness and quiet, freedom from disturbing thoughts of emotion. When one experiences peace, they feel secure in harmony with their personal relationships. 

• Ask God to plant His presence in the lives of our grandchildren so they will grow strong and have a quiet, calm spirit in their hearts.
• Pray they will experience God’s peace, even when going through difficult situations. 
• Pray that God’s peace will overflow from their hearts to others.
• Pray they will feel secure in their family and school situations.

Patience

Patience is the capacity to be patient, showing self-control, bearing pain or trials without complaining, being able to be calm, steadfast and persevering, even while waiting.

• Ask God to plant patience in the hearts of our grandchildren, as He refines them to become all He wants them to be. 
• Pray for them to have patience when waiting for God to answer their prayers because very often their timing is not God’s timing.
• Pray they will learn to be patient and tolerant with their family members and friends.

Kindness  

Kindness is having compassion, sympathy, being gentle, thoughtful, considerate and helpful.

• Pray for your grandchildren to choose to sow seeds of kindness, since kindness is a deliberate action.
• Pray they will look for places to plant seeds in random acts of kindness.
• Pray they will be kind, thoughtful, considerate and helpful with family members, and with their friends and classmates.

Goodness

Goodness is being kind, friendly, well behaved, admirable, honest, sincere and of reliable character.

• Pray your grandchildren will choose to have goodness, in their hearts. 
• Pray your grandchildren will sow seeds of goodness to others. 
• Pray your grandchildren will be well behaved and of reliable character.

Faithfulness

Faithfulness is being true, real, loyal, trustworthy, reliable and committed.

• Pray your grandchildren will see God’s faithfulness to them and grow strong in their spiritual lives.
• Pray they will be able to place their complete trust in God.
• Pray they will be dependable, reliable, loyal and trustworthy and do what is right.

Gentleness  

To be gentle one is tenderhearted, calm, kind, quiet, peaceful and well mannered.

• Pray your grandchild will have a tender heart with a gentle spirit.
• Pray your grandchild will have a calm, peaceful, spirit and be well mannered.
• Pray they will be considerate of the feelings and needs of others. 

Self-control

To have self-control one needs to have self-discipline, willpower, restraint and the ability to control his or her own behavior, especially in their reactions and impulses. 

• Pray our grandchildren will desire a heart of self-control.           
• Pray they will learn to control their behavior and their tongue.
• Pray they will recognize when Satan is tempting them and wants to steal their hearts.
• Pray they will use self-discipline to stand firm in the Lord.

This blog is taken from the book, Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren. The book is available on this website for a discounted price of $15.00 including shipping. The book will encourage you, challenge you, and give you many suggestions to intentionally pray for your dear grandchildren of all ages.

Written by Lillian Penner, Lillian Penner: Church Relations Coordinator for Christian Grandparenting Network, lpenner@christiangrandparenting.net