Grandma, I Need Your Prayers: Blessing Your Grandchildren through the Power of Prayer

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Zondervan, Dec 22, 2009 - Religion - 224 pages
Praying God’s Blessings on Your GrandchildrenWhether they live a continent away or just down the street, your grandchildren need your prayers. By praying for them regularly, you can have an enormous influence on their spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being. Even children who are reared in a Christian home need someone to pray for them, and who can do it better than a grandma?Grandma, I Need Your Prayers is an easy-to-use guide for prayer that will encourage you with practical help and motivate you with wonderful stories of answered prayers. It will show you how to pray strategically and specifically for grandchildren of any age. Topics include praying for:Their homesTheir friendsTheir safetyTheir schoolsTheir character developmentTheir relationship with GodProdigal grandchildrenUnborn grandchildren. . . and moreEach chapter contains Bible passages and prayers related to the topic of the chapter so that you can begin praying for the needs of those you love. This book will help you give your grandchildren one of the most precious gifts they will ever receive--the legacy of a praying grandmother.

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Contents

Introduction
11
Praying for Prodigal Grandchildren
149
Epilogue
211
Suggested Reading
219
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Page 149 - Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Page 116 - For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are, yet without sin.
Page 166 - Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Page 81 - My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
Page 134 - For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father.
Page 98 - Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Page 165 - Sure 3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Page 215 - Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Page 48 - I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Page 34 - I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

About the author (2009)

Quin Sherrerhas written or coauthored 27 books, mostly on the topic of prayer. She has appeared on more than 300 radio and TV stations and continues to teach seminars across the nation. She and her husband, LeRoy have six grandchildren, and make their home in Niceville, Florida.

Ruthanne Garlock is an author and international Bible teacher living near San Antonio, Texas. Together, she and Quin Sherrer have coauthored 20 books, including their best-sellers, How to Pray for Your Children and A Woman's Guide to Spiritual Warfare. Since her husband's death in 2003, Ruthanne is the only grandparent left for their four grandchildren.

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