Praying for our grandchildren (and children) is something we all know we need to do, but it is also something with which many of us struggle. We may feel like our prayers do not even make it through the ceiling above us and do not know what to say or how to pray. Our lives are busy, so finding the time to pray can be a challenge which we may not overcome and then days go by without us spending time in prayer.
Yet, we know prayer is important. We know, especially in this day and age, we - and our grandchildren (and children) need all the prayer they can get. We want to be people who pray; and people who pray deeply, but are not sure how to be this kind of person.
Well, please allow me to help you. I understand these feelings about prayer and struggled many years to be a person who prayed. Then one Sunday I heard Dr. Ed Dobson preach about how the best way to pray is to pray Scripture. This made sense to me, so being a writer, I started at Genesis and worked my way through the Bible to Revelation. Whenever I came to a passage I could pray, I wrote it out as a personalized Scripture prayer and divided it into seven parts, so I would be able to pray the passage more deeply by praying each portion over a week's time. This allowed me to pray regularly and to pray Scripture more deeply by spending a week praying through each passage!
When I became a grandma, I went back through these personalized Scripture prayers and added a prayer for my grandchildren (and children). I combined these prayers into three books, so far. One takes Scripture passages from the Old Testament and provides 52 weeks of personalized Scripture prayers for me to pray for myself, my adult children and my grandchildren. Another is focused on praying passages from the Book of Psalms and provides 52 weeks of personalized Scripture prayers as well. The third takes Scripture from the Old and New Testament is focuses prayer for a month on one passage.
These books will challenge and encourage you to commit to be a grandparent (parent) who prays the Scripture more deeply for yourself and for the people you love. We do not know what the time before us holds; the world seems to be very unsettled, to say the least. But, we do know Who holds the future and we are able to be people who talk with Him every day! We are able to be people who lift up those we love, every day in focused, deep prayer!
You will find my books at these links -
Praying Deeper Through the Psalms for Grandparents & Parents, Too!: Praying the Scriptures for the Children You Love - print copy at this link, kindle ebook at this link, and Praying Deeper Through the Old Testament for Grandparents & Parents, Too!: Praying the Scriptures for the Children You Love - print copy at this link, kindle ebook at this link.
Each of the print copies sell for $12.99 (and shipping) and each kindle ebook sells for $9.99.
These books make a great gift for you and for the grandparents in your life.
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