Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren
Do you sometimes struggles with how to pray for your pre-teen and teenage grandchildren? Here are some suggestions to help you intentionally pray for them.
As Pre-teen & Teenagers, pray they will:
- Be motivated, disciplined, and challenged to apply themselves in their studies in order to excel academically.
- Experience the reality of Jesus Christ in their lives as they grow strong in their faith.
- Recognize the deception of the world.
- Be covered with God’s safekeeping physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
- Date wisely (which leads to a life’s partner).
- Be sexually pure.
- Have open communication and good relationship with parents.
- Choose friends who will have a positive influence.
- Develop a hunger for God’s Word and grow spiritually.
- Have a balanced view of their beauty, charm and strength.
Taken from the book Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective
Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren by Lillian Penner.
We need all the wisdom,patience and understanding to deal with our teenage grandkids. Of course that goes true with their parents too. Thank God we have Him- our heavenly father who never sleeps and listens to our petitions. Thank you Lillian for those powerful and timely suggestions for prayers for these precious grandchildren.