5 Fabulous Ways to Pray for Young Adults - Ministry of Hope with Melanie Redd
“In many ways, they will need you MORE as young adults than they have at any other point in their growing up years.
The decisions are bigger now!
The pressure is greater!
And, their need for wise counsel and coaching is enormous!”
This is what one of my very wise mentors told me as my first child was starting college.
She was and is so right.
When our kids hit these young adult years—between ages 18-30—they do need our wise counsel, our support, our money, our time, our help, and our wisdom.
And, they need our prayers.
Unlike any other season of their lives, our young adults need us to be faithfully lifting them up in prayer. Click To Tweet
There are moments when our young adult children will swing back and forth between wisdom and foolishness.
We need to pray that they will move toward greater and greater discretion and understanding.
Here’s a verse that you can pray:
“Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.” Ephesians 5:15-16
Prayer – “So let ____________ be careful how he/she lives. Don’t live them live like fools, but let _________ live like those who are wise. Teach ____________ to make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.”
We need to pray that they will move toward greater and greater discretion and understanding. Click To Tweet
Our kids may look all grown up, but most of them still have much maturing to do in their twenties.
We need to pray that God will grow them, teach them, train them, and mature them.
Here’s a verse that you can pray:
“And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.” Luke 2:52
Prayer – “As Jesus grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and all the people, grow ____________ in wisdom, in stature, and in favor with God and all the people.”
We need to pray that God will grow them, teach them, train them, and mature them. Click To Tweet
Friends are a huge deal for most young adults.
Pray that God will surround your kids with wise, healthy, and positive friends.
Pray for those negative, immature, unhealthy friends out of their lives.
Here are two verses that you can pray:
“How well God must like you-you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon, you don’t slink along Dead-End Road, you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.” Psalm 1:1, MSG
Prayer – “Would you help ____________ to not hanging out at Sin Saloon, or slink along Dead-End Road, or go to Smart-Mouth College? Instead, help ___________ to thrill to God’s Word, to chew on Scripture day and night.”
‘Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”’ I Corinthians 15:33
Prayer – “Help __________ to not be deceived and to realize that bad company ruins good morals. Protect __________ from bad company, unhealthy friends, and unwise companions.”
Pray that God will surround your kids with wise, healthy, and positive friends. Click To Tweet
With so many things competing for our young adult kids’ attention, we need to pray that they will be drawn to the Lord.
Here’s a verse that you can pray:
“Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:12-13
Prayer – “Thank You for listening when we pray. Encourage _________ to pray. And, put in ____________ ‘s heart a desire to look for You wholeheartedly. Thank You that ____________ will find You if they seek after You with their whole heart.”
With so many things competing for our young adult kids’ attention, we need to pray that they will be drawn to the Lord. Click To Tweet
Fifth… Pray for them to Get in on God’s Plan for Their Lives
I don’t believe there is a season in our children’s lives filled with more major decisions than this one.
They are deciding what to study, where to go to college, where to live, whom to marry, what career to pursue, and who they will become.
Our young adult kids need for us to pray for them as never before. Click To Tweet
Here’s a great verse that you can pray:
“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.” Psalm 138:8, ESV
Prayer – “Thank You that You will fulfill Your purpose for __________ and for his/her life.”
So, what do you think?
How do you pray for your young adult kids? Click To Tweet
What verses have you used?
How have you seen God answer your prayers for your children?
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