Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren
Spiritual warfare is intense today as our grandchildren are growing up in the midst of a culture that is morally and spiritually depraved. In II Chronicles 20:15 we read “The battle isn’t ours, it’s the God’s”
When our grandchildren are flirting with the world, just a scratch can contaminate them and grow into a major spiritual battle. Our younger grandchildren face temptations of lying, cheating, disobedience to parents, etc. Our teenage and young adult grandchildren need protection, as they tend to push the boundaries of a godly lifestyle. The devil is deceptive, and he tries to distract them from walking with the Lord.
I often hear grandparents talking about their concern for their grandchildren growing up in our troubled world and the morally depraved culture they are inheriting. As grandparents, we cannot protect our grandchildren in school and their various activities but we can pray for them.
However, we can pray our grandchildren will:
- Invite Jesus Christ into their heart and experience the adventure of a full, purposeful, and fruitful life.
- Guard their hearts and be aware of God’s presence with them.
- Recognize the deception and evil in this world.
- Be strong in their faith so they can resist the enemy.
- See themselves as God sees them full of promise, possibility, and potentiality.
We can also ask God to:
- Cancel the assignments from the enemy.
- Shower our grandchildren with blessings that exceed our dreams.
- Place a hedge of protection over our children and grandchildren physically, emotionally and spiritually each day.
By Lillian Penner, Author of Grandparenting with a purpose and CGN Prayer team, pennerlp@gmail.com
PS: Additional prayer helps: I have developed “Suggestions to Pray for Different Life Stages” Many grandparents are using these to pray for their grandchildren. Just by joining the mailing list on the right side of this page you will receive grandparenting blogs and prayer suggestions to pray for your grandchildren regularly. I will send you a free downloadable copy of “Suggestions to Pray for Different Life Stages.”
My only granddaughter has left home. She will be 19 tomorrow. We know where she is, in a safe place.
She has announced that she is in a relationship with another girl! This comes as a total and unexpected shock to us.
She doesn’t want to see her mother but has spent a day with me. So far, I have just listened to her. No preaching or scripture verses. I don’t want to push her away but I do not condone what she is doing at all!
I love her dearly and hate seeing how she is being deceived. She says she is a Christian.
Please help me pray for her! Thank you, Carole