Grandparenting with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray for your Grandchildren
Salt is beneficial for health, it’s an essential nutrient of the daily diet for humans and animals.
It has many uses, from deicing streets in the winter to seasoning our food in the summer when we barbeque.
Matthew writes, “Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You’ve lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage.”¹
Today our world is decaying morally and spiritually. However, those of us who follow Jesus Christ are called to be the salt of the earth, flavoring the world with His love and compassion into the lives of our grandchildren and their parents pointing them to God.
As grandparents, let’s be salt to our grandchildren, their parents, and to the world, with intentional prayer as they navigate in the unsettled, post-Christian time we live in today. Let’s create a thirst for Jesus in our grandchildren.
- Ask God to help you bring out the God-flavor of God’s love in your grandchildren and make them thirsty for His love.
- Ask God to keep your grandchildren safe with guardrails of his protection physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Would you share how you try to season your grandchildren with God’s love in the comments below?
¹ Matthew 5:13 (The Message)
By Lillian Penner
Since I live so far from my four grandchildren, I find that doing messenging on Facebook is a good way to keep contact with them. I try to read a short story to my 5 year old and then the 8 year old reads a book to me. It is fun and we get to interact about the stories and also what’s going on in their lives. I love the fact of seeing my grandson’s so I can flavor their lives with God’s love while I become real to them as their caring grandmother. I enjoyed the message you wrote of being a seasoning and it will stay in my mind whenever I interact with my precious grandchildren.
Dear Kathy,
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I am happy to hear that you have found creative ways to connect with your grandsons. I’m happy to hear you enjoyed the blog about seasoning.
May God bless you richly as you pray for your grandsons,
Lillian Penner