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[jcjcpurple]

Lord I need you. Thank you Lord. I pray for my grandson ### that he stays free, that stop smoking marijuana, stop hanging with the wrong people, find a job, start being a good role model and stay out of trouble. I pray that nothing comes of this last stop by the police that he stays free. In Jesus Name I Pray. Amen

 

[Articles]

We join you in lifting up your grandson before the throne of grace, asking the Lord to intervene powerfully in his life. The concerns you’ve shared are heavy on your heart, and we know they are also heavy on the heart of our Heavenly Father, who desires wholeness, freedom, and purpose for every one of His children.

First, we want to affirm the authority in which you prayed, in the name of Jesus. There is no other name under heaven by which we can approach God or see true transformation (Acts 4:12). It is only through faith in Jesus Christ, His death on the cross, and His resurrection that we are saved and set free. If your grandson does not yet know Jesus as his Lord and Savior, we pray that the Holy Spirit would draw him with cords of love, open his eyes to the truth of the Gospel, and lead him to repentance and faith. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16).

We also rebuke the spirit of addiction and bondage that has taken hold of him through marijuana use. The Bible is clear that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and we are called to honor God with them (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Substance abuse dulls the mind, weakens the spirit, and opens doors to further sin and destruction. We pray that God would break every chain of addiction in his life, replacing the craving for marijuana with a hunger and thirst for righteousness (Matthew 5:6). We declare that he is not a slave to this habit, for "if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).

The company he keeps is also a matter of great concern. Scripture warns us, "Do not be deceived: 'Evil company corrupts good habits'" (1 Corinthians 15:33). We pray that God would remove ungodly influences from his life and surround him with believers who will encourage him in his walk with Christ. Father, bring godly mentors, friends, and role models into his life who will speak truth, hold him accountable, and reflect Your love. We also pray that he would develop a heart of wisdom, discerning the difference between those who build him up and those who tear him down.

Regarding his encounter with the police, we stand in faith and declare that no weapon formed against him shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17). We pray that any false accusations, misunderstandings, or lingering consequences would be dissolved by the blood of Jesus. Lord, we ask that You would go before him in this situation, soften the hearts of those in authority, and turn what the enemy meant for harm into a testimony of Your grace and deliverance. Let this moment be a turning point, not a stumbling block.

We also lift up his need for employment. Proverbs 12:11 tells us, "He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies lacks sense." We pray that God would open doors of opportunity for him, leading him to honest and fulfilling work that provides for his needs and allows him to use his gifts for Your glory. Give him diligence, integrity, and a strong work ethic, and let him find favor in the eyes of employers.

Above all, we pray that your grandson would come to know his true identity in Christ, not as a failure, an addict, or a troublemaker, but as a beloved child of God, redeemed by the blood of Jesus, and called to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:4). We declare that old things are passing away and all things are becoming new (2 Corinthians 5:17). Let him rise up as a man of God, a leader, and a positive influence in his family and community.

Heavenly Father, we come before You with boldness, knowing that You hear the cries of Your children. We ask that You would move mightily in the life of this young man. Break every chain, heal every wound, and restore what has been lost. Let him experience the depth of Your love and the power of Your Holy Spirit. Surround him with Your angels, protect him from the snares of the enemy, and fill him with hope for the future. We declare that he is not defined by his past but by the destiny You have for him. May he walk in the freedom, purpose, and joy that only You can provide.

We pray all these things in the mighty name of Jesus, the name above every name, the name that brings salvation, deliverance, and transformation. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We've been praying with you for your grandson, and we know how heavy it is when you love someone and watch them walk a hard road. The waiting and the not-knowing can wear you down. We're with you in this, and we're not letting up.

One thing that sometimes helps when someone is caught in a cycle like this is simply noticing the patterns. Not in a way that adds pressure, but as a quiet, honest look at the moments that lead where he doesn’t want to go, like when the urge to smoke hits, or when he's drawn toward those old friends. Just paying attention to what's happening right before can sometimes open the door to different choices. You might mention the idea gently, not as a lecture, but as something he could try for his own sake.

The immediate fear you’re carrying is that last police stop, and we get why that's front and center. Right now, we pray the situation passes without deeper harm and that it serves as a wake-up call, not a life-defining moment. And while finding a job and being a good role model can feel like distant goals, we trust that small, steady steps can begin to turn things. You're doing something powerful by simply standing in the gap and refusing to give up.

Lord, we lift up this grandson to You today. You see where he is, and You see his grandmother's heart. We ask You to shield him from lasting legal trouble and to clear the way before him. Give him a growing desire to leave behind what's holding him captive, and place people in his path who will pull him toward what is good. Give his grandmother wisdom to speak when the time is right, and peace to trust You in the waiting. In Jesus' name, Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

There is a burden in these words that moves the heart, for a soul bound by fetters is a sorrowful sight. The cry for a grandson’s freedom, that he be kept from harm and turned from the path of ruin, echoes the very petition of our Lord who prayed not that His own be taken out of the world, but that they be kept from evil. Here is the true need, not merely that the young man escape the magistrate’s hand, but that he be plucked from the snare of the destroyer. The smoking herb and the company of the wicked are but the outward chains; the real prison is within, and no earthly power can bring real freedom to the soul. It is grace, grace alone, that brings it by the blood of the covenant.

Consider the negative prayer first. Christ did not pray that we be removed from trial, and so it is with this lad. He is detained here, perhaps, that he might yet hear a living testimony, that his grandmother’s tears and prayers might be as a witness to his conscience. Yet the positive prayer rises stronger still: that he be kept from evil. This is the great petition. Liberty to sin is the deepest slavery; liberty from sin is freedom indeed. The craving for the drug, the pull of the gang, these are the cruel master’s lash. But where the blood of Christ sets a man free, no form of bondage can make him a slave. He may be owned by some cruel habit, but his soul soars free if redemption has done its work.

Mark this well: you were bought with a price. That principle thunders through the soul. You are not your own; your body and your spirit are God’s. If the lad could only grasp this, he would see that yielding his members to sinful ease and rebellion is a theft from the Lord who purchased him. True freedom is not doing as one pleases, that is the slave’s dream who hugs his chains. True freedom is wearing the easy yoke of Christ, where self-denial becomes no denial but a supreme joy. Plead with the Most High that this grandson might not merely escape the penalty of his deeds but be wrought upon by the Spirit, so that he loathes the mire where he has wallowed. The proclamation is unconditional: Christ delivers from the pit without money and without price. Yet a man must know himself a slave before he cries for liberty; he must be in the Brazil of his own misery and feel the whip of the Law before he welcomes the Liberator.

Stand firm, then, and wrestle in prayer. The Lord is able to turn the reprobate into a role model, to fashion a vessel of honor from that which was marred. The fetters of circumstance are nothing to Him who shattered the gates of death. Let your heart reply to every fear with the shout that freedom is immediate and eternal for all who take shelter in the stronghold of the covenant. The great Liberator lives, and He walks abroad among the prisoners of hope, opening doors that no man can shut.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. God is so in love with you. Be Encouraged!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, so that I can trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your tears over your grandson do not go unnoticed by the Lord who sees the hidden groaning of a grandmother’s heart. The anxiety you feel at his smoking, his idle companions, his joblessness, and that last frightening stop by the police, all of it rises like incense. Yet remember, the temptations of those we love often trouble us far more than our own. When Paul was hindered again and again, his spiritual children were shaken not for their own trials, but for his. So now you watch your grandson wounded in the skirmish, and your soul trembles as if the blow fell on you. But God permits these things to establish, not to destroy. He sees the young man clutching his familiar sins as a child clings to the breast, and in His mercy He may anoint that very breast with bitter medicine so that the child will finally turn away to solid food. That encounter with the law, which you dread, might be the very medicine his soul needs to wake from the stupor of easy pleasures.

Do not be uncandid with God, imagining that a life is either always in sorrow or always in joy. You recall only the troubles, but what of the daily mercies that still surround him? He is alive, he has breath to repent, he has a grandmother who prays. The table of the Lord is spread before you even while enemies, those inner demons of addiction and bad company, trouble you. At that holy table, the victory is already shown. Christ did not promise a world without tribulation; He said, “In the world you shall have sorrow, but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” Your grandson is not yet subject to Him, and we do not yet see all things put under His feet. Do not grieve as if the final battle were lost while the King still rides forth. Continue to call on the Lord, not with frantic disturbance, but with the patient urgency of one who knows that if the Son sets free, he shall be free indeed. Entrust the young man again to the One who led Israel by bitterness into a land flowing with milk and honey. He who spared not His own Son will both hear your prayer and, in His own time, answer.

 

[Silas]

You are not alone in this prayer. The ache you feel for your grandson is one the Lord honors, because He loves him more than you ever could. You have asked for freedom, and that is exactly what Jesus came to give, not the counterfeit freedom that the world offers, but the real, lasting liberty that only He can bring.

That false freedom whispers loudly: the pull of marijuana, the companionship of people who lead him away from what is good, the thrill of drifting without purpose. It feels like freedom to his flesh, but it is really a chain. Licentiousness always overpromises and underdelivers. It tells a young man, “You are free to do whatever you want,” while it quietly locks the door of a cell. You and I both know that real freedom is not the absence of rules; it is the presence of a new Master who sets us free from the sin that so easily entangles. Jesus did not pray that we be taken out of the world, but that the Father would keep us from the evil one. That is the prayer rising in your heart right now, and it aligns perfectly with His will.

Your grandson may say the right words at times, perhaps he makes promises or professions of change. But as we see so clearly in Scripture, a man can make glorious professions while his life tells a different story. Words are not the proof. The proof is a transformed walk, a life that begins to match the confession. So do not be discouraged if you have heard him speak of turning around before and nothing has lasted. Keep praying, because God is the one who not only hears professions but creates new hearts. The hope is not in rejuvenating an old way of life but in something far superior, a new creation, a genuine inward shift that only the Spirit can accomplish.

When I read your request, I do not just see a grandmother asking for a clean legal record after a police stop. I see a woman longing for her grandson to move out of the tent and into the house, to borrow a picture. This body of sin is a fragile tent, and the world’s pleasures only patch the holes for a moment. What he truly needs is the solid, eternal building of God, a life anchored in Christ where all things become new. Pray that this narrow escape with the police will be a moment of clarity, a warning that does not harden him but softens his heart. The fear of consequences can be a mercy when it steers a person toward the Savior who says, “I stand at the door and knock.”

Continue to ask the Lord to give him a job, yes, and a sense of purpose that can only be filled by knowing his Creator. Ask that the wrong relationships lose their pull, not because he grinds his teeth and tries harder, but because the Holy Spirit makes the company of the righteous more attractive. Ask that the desire for marijuana be replaced by a hunger for the living bread. This is not merely behavior modification; it is resurrection from the dead.

Take courage. The very fact that you are on your knees is evidence that God is already at work. He hears every word. And when the whole church gathers around a throne of grace, there are no rules limiting the power of a grandmother’s faith-filled prayer. I will join you in asking that this police stop becomes a holy disruption and that your grandson steps fully into the freedom for which Christ has made him free. Keep your heart fixed on Jesus, who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.