How to Multiply the Power of Prayer for Your Grandchildren

Prayer impacts our families. So how do we multiply that power? With a partner. Matthew 18:20 says, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” 

I pray with one of my in-laws. 

Does that surprise you? 

We live miles apart, Michigan and Texas, but we pray.

We started before our children married. Now, come September, we’ll pray together as grandmothers. 

We share everything prayer partners usually do. Updates, praises, concerns. It helps to know someone else is covering your kid in prayer. 

Because we get it. We know how tough it can be to establish a career. To work. To parent.

And in today’s culture, the list of concerns grows longer and longer. 

What do you do about school? Public? Private? Home school? 

Screen time. Activities. Friends. 

Concerns burden our hearts. 

And when our hearts are burdened, God calls us to come together. 

To multiply the power of prayer. 

Prayer Partners

Do you have a prayer partner? 

Who comes to your mind?

 Anyone else? 

Do you have enough for a group?

Logistics

1. Meet consistently. Monthly, weekly, whatever works. In-person or virtually. If you’re meeting long distance, check your time zone against theirs. 

2. Prep your prayer list. What’s heavy on your heart? What joys can you celebrate? What are some ongoing long-term prayer requests? Write down theirs as well or share your list through a text or email. I use the Notes app on my phone.

3. Cover your shared prayer list in your regular prayer time. 

4. Follow up with your partner. Keep those records of your prayer time. Not only will they encourage your children, but they offer proof to those grandkids that someone was praying for them even before their birth—and that God answered. What a headstart for their walk of faith and their personal experience of God’s faithfulness. It can start with you right now.

Praying with Your Spouse

After attending a grandparenting retreat last fall, my husband and I wanted to up our prayer game for the grandkids. I purchased a desk pad from Legacy Coalition with Bible verses and prayer prompts. I use it as a place mat. After dinner, we look at the prayer prompt and verse for the day and we pray for them. 

Praying with Other Grandparents 

The Christian Grandparenting Network offers several opportunities to link with other praying grandparents. They offer a Grandparents’ Day of Prayer guidebook for National Grandparent’s Day on September 13, 2026. They also offer 31-day prayer challenges for grandchildren and for adult children as well as 52 Weeks of Prayer. This is the place for prayer resources, and I’ll have links for you below.

Let’s pray: Father, guide us as we seek to link arms with other praying grandparents. Guide us to just the right prayer partner or group. Multiply our prayers and further your kingdom as we seek to pass on a legacy of faith. In Jesus’s name. Amen. 

After Peter and John returned from a confrontation with the elders, they prayed with the church. Acts 4:29-31 reads, “‘Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.’ And after they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly.”

Pray boldly and pray together.

Resources and News:

Christian Grandparenting Network Check out their prayer resources.

Legacy Coalition desk pad with prayer prompts

Kingswell Kid Detective series news:

The Mystery of the Missing Falls launches next week, but you can pre-order a copy for your elementary-aged student today. Kid-sized mysteries. God-sized truths. A fun read with a little discipleship snuck in. Order here.

To join the Kingswell Kid Detectives Book Club, go to https://kingswellkids.com.

Next week’s post: How to Build Character in Your Grandchildren Through Children’s Literature.