Grandma's Prayer

Powerful Prayers For You & Your Family

These prayers have been compiled by a loving Grandma who has been praying them for her family for over 30 years. They are all based on the Word of God and you can pray them for your children, grandchildren, and other family members.
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A Prayer of Thanks

"Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s." -Psalm 103:1-5

Dear God, my Heavenly Father, I come to You in the name of Jesus, the Name above every name.(1) I come boldly before Your presence with thanksgiving.(2) I praise and thank You for Your love, and Your goodness and Your faithfulness, and Your power.(3) You are holy and worthy of all praise! (4) I thank You for Your everlasting and incorruptible Word. I thank You that Your word is living and powerful . I thank You that Your word will not return void, but will accomplish the purpose for which You sent it, for You watch over Your word to perform it.(5)

I Pray and Declare
Your word for my family in Jesus’ Name (6)

A Prayer for Your Family to Know the Love of God

Heavenly Father, I thank You for the gift of my family. Every good and perfect gift comes from You.(7) I thank You that You desire to forgive all of our sins.(8) You loved us so much that You gave Your perfect Son, Jesus, to save us from our sins so that we could have everlasting life.(9)

I Pray that every person in my family will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.(10) I pray that they will confess with their mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in their hearts that you raised Him from the dead, so that they will be saved.(11)Father, for those who have not yet received Jesus as their Savior, I ask You to open the eyes of their hearts in order to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins.(12) I pray that Christ will dwell in our hearts through faith, and that we will be rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus Christ. That we will know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge, and be filled with all the fullness of God.(13)

I Declare: 
All my children and grandchildren from generation to generation are followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is our Savior and Lord!(14)

A Prayer for Healing for Your Family

Father God, I thank You that You are the LORD Who heals.(15) You have healed all our diseases.(16) You sent Your word and healed and delivered us.(17) And Your words are life and health to all our flesh.(18) I thank You Jesus that You are the Healer.(19) You went about on earth healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.(20) You were moved with compassion for the sick and healed them.(21) And You, Jesus, are the same yesterday, today, and forever.(22) Your word says that You took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses on the cross, and that by Your stripes we were healed.(23) You desire that we live in health.(24) I pray that every person in my family will believe and receive God’s word that says by the blood and stripes of Jesus we are healed.(25)

I Declare:
My family is healed and healthy. We live in health.(26)

A Prayer for Freedom and Deliverance for Your Family

I thank You Father that you have redeemed and delivered my family from destruction.(27) Jesus, You are the Deliverer.(28) You came to destroy the works of the devil and set the captives free.(29) I pray that everyone in my family will submit themselves to You, O God, resist the devil, and then the devil will flee from them.(30) For we are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us.(31) No weapon formed against us will prosper.(32) And nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(33) Jesus, You said that You came to heal the brokenhearted and set the captives free.(34) And whom the Son sets free is free indeed!(35)

I Declare:
Jesus Christ has delivered my family and set us free and we are free indeed!(36)

A Prayer for God’s Blessings and Provision for Your Family

I thank You Father God that You crown and surround my family with Your lovingkindness.(37) You are our Provider.(38) You will supply all our needs according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus.(39) I pray that we will seek first the kingdom of God and Your righteousness, and that all these things will be added unto us.(40)You give us richly all things to enjoy as we trust in You, O God.(41) Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is the LORD.(42)You, Lord, will bless and keep us.(43) You will command blessings on us as we love You and walk in Your ways.(44)

I Declare:
My family is blessed! The Lord will bless and keep us.(45)

A Prayer for Protection Over Your Family

I thank You Lord that You also crown and surround my family with Your compassion.(46) You are our Protector.(47)You preserve us from all evil.(48) We abide under the shadow of the Almighty. You are our refuge and fortress. I pray that in You our God we trust.(49) I pray that we will set our love upon You. When we call upon You, You will answer us. You are with us in trouble and deliver us.(50) I pray that we will have no fear for Your perfect love casts out all fear.(51) We will fear not for You are with us, we will not be afraid for You are our God. You will strengthen us, You will help us, You will uphold us with Your righteous right hand!(52)

I Declare:
The Lord protects and keeps and upholds my family. He guards our going out and our coming in from this time forth and forever!(53)

A Prayer for Direction and Guidance for Your Family

Thank You, Lord God, that You will satisfy our years with good things and renew our youth like the eagle’s.(54) You know the plans You have for us, plans for good and not for evil, to give us a future and a hope.(55) I pray that everyone in my family will trust in You Lord with all our hearts and not depend on our own understanding. That in all our ways, we will acknowledge You and You will direct our paths.(56) I pray that we will choose the path of life and blessing .(57) I pray that we will run with endurance the race set before us, looking to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith.(58) And that we will declare the praises of You, O God, who called us out of darkness into Your glorious light.(59) Jesus, you are Light and Life.(60) You said that You are the Light of the world, and that You came that we might have life and have it more abundantly.(61)

I declare:
My family walks in Your light and has life, and life more abundantly. Jesus is our Lord!(62)

Final Blessing and Thanks

LORD, bless us and keep us. LORD, make Your face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us. LORD, lift up Your countenance upon us and give us peace, In Jesus Name.(63)

“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”(64)

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