Praying Down the Path of
Your Grandchildren’s Lives
PRAYERS FROM PROVERBS
Our prayers for our grandchildren allow God to accomplish His purpose in and through their lives. We can pray not only for current issues but also pray down through their lives for all the decisions they will be making in the future. We can pray now and have answers on "lay-a-way" for when they need them. In this way we can leave an inheritance much more valuable and lasting than money and property.
One of the most powerful ways to pray is to pray God's word back to Him. The following prayers are written from Proverbs. They will address most of the issues your grandchildren will ever face. In most cases the verse is simply turned around into a prayer. At other times the principle or idea from a verse or group of verses is expressed as a prayer.
Probably the best way to use these prayers is to pray through them a few at a time using a marker to keep track of your progress. The written verses should serve as a framework on which you build the specifics related to your grandchildren. Those that are most meaningful should be dated and revisited often. Also, praying them with a prayer partner is helpful since the prayers of two people agreeing together are much more effective than one person alone.
Sample prayers from Proverbs Chapter 2:
Precious Father, work through me, their parents and others to ensure my grandchildren hear Your word and have Your commandments hidden in their hearts. Make sure they listen intently when You are speaking to them through others. Place in them the desire and ability to seek and find wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Make knowing You the most important part of their lives. See to it that they truly have a reverential fear and respect for You and that they seek to know Your purposes and Your ways. 1-5
Lord, give my grandchildren the grace to be filled with Your wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Be their shield and protector as they walk in obedience to You. Lead them in Your paths and guard their way. 6-8
So work in them that they understand righteousness, judgment, honesty and every good path. 9
Fill their hearts with wisdom and their minds with knowledge. Give them wise judgment and understanding in all their ways. Deliver them from evil people and from those who speak wicked things. Don’t let them have friends who are sinful and wicked and who enjoy evil and delight in wicked activities. Keep them from those who are crooked and dishonest. 10-15