5 Things to Pray for Your Parents: Prayers That Change Things for an Older Generation

The Bible calls us to honour our parents—and one way we can do that is by praying for them. Little children often see their mothers and fathers as the ones with all the answers. It’s not until we grow up that we realise our parents are just like us—regular people in need of prayer. This guide will help you to pray rich, intentional prayers for your mother or father—be they biological or adoptive, working or retired, frail or fit, married or separated, believers or unbelievers. Whatever their situation, if we want to love them well, we need to pray. Each of the 21 prayer themes in this book takes a passage of Scripture and suggests five things to pray for a particular area of your parents' lives. You can use this book in any number of ways: work through it as part of your daily quiet time or pick it up whenever a particular need arises. The command to honour our parents comes with a beautiful promise—“that it may go well with you” (Ephesians 6 v 3). The hope of this guide is that you will reap this blessing as you come before God with prayers that change things for an older generation.

Publisher: Good Book Company
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781784986285

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Chelsea Stanley serves with the women’s ministry team at Crossway Community Church in Bristol, Wisconsin . She has written for Desiring God, Risen Motherhood, and The Gospel Coalition.

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Chelsea Stanley has blessed the Church by giving us this wise and biblically sound advice on how to pray for our parents. Her model of basing our prayers directly on Scripture is both wise and instructive. But, this book will only be of value if it is used. So, get it, plan to read and pray though a short section each day, as you use it as a tool to bless your parents and strengthen your own prayer life. Oh, and make sure I get a copy for each of my sons! John Dunlop M.D., Geriatrician; Author, Finishing Well to the Glory of God; father of two adult sons