573 archives found for "Prayer"

When we go back to visit family in Oklahoma, I like to go to the cemetery to visit my parent’s and grandparents’ gravesites. As I was looking at my grandmother’s tombstone, I read: MARIA WARKENTIN WIEBE March 7, 1880 – June 14, 195 Have you ever thought about what the [...]

Spiritual warfare is intense today our grandchildren are growing up amid a morally and spiritually depraved culture. But God has provided an answer, a gift of intercessory prayer. An intercessor is one who intercedes in prayer on behalf of others. When we love others, we will want to intercede [...]

We had our family Christmas gathering last night, in which we included a birthday cake for Jesus and sang “Happy birthday”. My four-year-old great-granddaughter was thrilled to blow out the candles. Later that evening when her parents were putting her in bed, she prayed that Jesus would [...]

 Does the song, “I’ll be home for Christmas” ¹ Frank Sinatra made famous in the ’50s, make you blue and gloomy because you are not going to see all of your children and grandchildren during this Christmas season make you sad? Grandparents love to be with their loved [...]

This Christmas season may be different for our grandparents. Lockdowns and pandemics are interfering with our usual Christmas plans. Recently I received an email from a grandmother asking me to pray with her because she was estranged from her granddaughter. Her broken heart was finding it very [...]

Happy Thanksgiving Why not dig into the boxes and envelopes that hold your treasured, forgotten photos of your children and grandchildren and send them to them on their birthday or special occasions. Write a note of the approximate time and place the picture was taken and your memory of the event. [...]

Our countries have been many difficult issues, amidst the riots, the uncertainly with the COVID 19 pandemic. It’s easy to get discouraged, especially when thinking of the world our grandchildren are living in today. However, we have a big God bigger than the challenges and struggles we [...]

Grandparents with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray Effectively for your Grandchildren will make a great Christmas Gift for any grandparent. You may want it for yourself. I have been a grandmother for over 35 years. God has given me a passion for intentionally praying for my grandchildren, [...]

Many homes have pumpkins, autumn-colored mums on their doorsteps, and Halloween decorations in their yards. Children have a good time deciding who they will be and what they will wear as they trick or treating and, of course, eating their treats.  This year has been an unusual time for us [...]

Our grandchildren’s parents have a great responsibility for parenting our grandchildren in these uncertain, unstable times in which we live. In today’s broken world, we see the family unit very fragile, living amid a busy and evil environment filled with many moral and spiritual [...]