Praying for Your Grandchildren is like Sowing Seeds

During this autumn season, 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 harvest and in the autumn, he would sow the wheat seed. Throughout the winter months, we would wait for the rains to water the seed and wait for it to come up and watch it grow. In the spring, we would see the wheat heads form and ripen to a golden color for the harvest in early June. We simply 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.  

Asking God for what we desire for our grandchildren and their parents when we are praying for them, reminds me of sowing seed. Once we have asked in prayer, 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 sown with our prayers.

However, we must have faith trusting God is at work even when it seems like nothing is happening while we are wait for the seed (prayers) to sprout, grow, and bring forth a harvest.

One little seed has a lot of 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. The seed (prayers) that we sow in the lives of our grandchildren and their parents will produce a harvest, even into the future generations.

• Pray your grandchildren will allow God to prepare the soil of their hearts for planting.
• Pray your grandchildren will invite Jesus Christ into their hearts.
• Pray their hearts will be watered with God’s Word for the seed to grow.
• Pray they will allow the Holy Spirit to control their hearts.
• Pray they will experience God’s presence and love in their hearts when being weeded and pruned with disappointments in the challenges of life.

 Questions:

1. What are you asking God in faith for your grandchildren today?
2. Are you fully trusting God with the seeds of prayers that you are sowing to bring forth a harvest in the lives of your grandchildren?

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart” (Galatians 6:9, NKJV).

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By Lillian Penner, National Prayer Coordinator, Christian Grandparenting Network