Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren
Now we have approached the autumn season, and I am reminded of my childhood, growing up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma. In the summer after the wheat harvest, my father would prepare the soil for the next year’s crop, and in the autumn, he would sow the wheat seed. We would wait for the rains to water the seed throughout the winter months and wait for it to come up and watch it grow. We would see the wheat heads form and ripen to a golden color for the harvest in early June in the spring. We had faith that once the seed was in the ground, rains would come, nature would take its course, and the golden heads of wheat would be ready to be harvested next summer.
Our prayers can be like a seed.
It reminds me of when we pray, we are sowing seed, asking God in faith for what we request. Once we have asked, things start happening behind the scenes, whether we are asleep or awake, God is at work, preparing an answer to our prayers. In God’s timing, the answer will be evident, and we will “reap” the results of our seed (prayer) sown. We must have faith; trusting God is at work even when it seems like nothing is happening while waiting for the seed (prayers) to sprout, grow, and bring forth a harvest.
One little seed has potential, it seems so small, but under the right conditions, this one seed can grow into a plant that will yield a great harvest! Spiritual multiplication is the same. grandchildren’s lives will produce a crop, even into the future generations, and yield a harvest of blessing in the future.
Questions:
- What are you asking God for your grandchildren today?
- Are you able to fully trust God with the seeds of prayers that you are sowing and watering to bring forth a harvest in the lives of your grandchildren?
“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in the due season, we shall reap if we do not lose heart” (Galatians 6:9, NKJV).
I would appreciate your comments about how you are sowing and watering seeds in the lives of your grandchildren.
By Lillian Penner
I am sowing seeds of faith. That they will walk in faith, trust in faith, pray in faith, believe they are guarded by the shield of faith, even with faith the size of a mustard seed. Regardless of how things look now, being in shared custody, missing their mom when away from her, have faith that God will work all things for the good, because they love Him and are called according to His purpose. Faith that what has been meant for evil will be used for good. Faith that will sustain them all their lives. Faith that will be produce fruit for an example to their children and grandchildren and all who witness it.