Today is National Grandparents’ Day in the United States. In lieu of my regular blog, I want to use this opportunity to acknowledge the vital role you play as a grandparent and bless you: May you receive the honor and praise due you, especially you who are faithfully living out a legacy worth outliving you—one that makes Christ look great and glorious. May you know on this day how much of a treasure you are to your grandchildren, and may they truly rise up and call you blessed!

Today is not only National Grandparents’ Day, but the Global Grandparents’ Day of Prayer. In 2011 we launched a movement of calling grandparents around the world to intentional prayer on behalf of their grandchildren concurrent with Grandparents’ Day. I invite you to accept the challenge to make this day a time to gather with other grandparents and remember whose Name we lift up as King and Lord, and to battle for the hearts, minds and souls of our children and grandchildren.

Grandparents understand that there is no greater joy than to see their grandchildren walking in the truth. There is also no greater heartache than to know they are not. Today is a grand day for grandparents everywhere to link arms and come into our King’s presence to petition and intercede on their behalf. Who will you link arms with today to pray for your families—your children and grandchildren—and for those who influence their lives?

We pray so that the Lord will keep them from the evil one. We also pray that we may not forget all the Lord has done for us, and that our lives will validate the power, glory and grace of God through Christ our Savior rather than give them a reason to doubt or think our faith in Christ is not real or relevant.

John Bunyan wrote, “Seaman cannot create the wind, but they can hoist their sails to welcome it.” May the sails of our hearts be hoisted and open to receive the wind of the Spirit of God that He may draw us to our knees in repentance and sorrow, that He may anoint and inhabit our prayers of faith and hope for tomorrow, and that He may breathe His Spirit to bring revival and transformation through Christ our Lord generation to generation.

GRANDPAUSE: He is the God of boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small; our expectations are too limited. –A. B. Simpson