Week 1: The Why

Friday, January 24

Pray for the Older Generation to See Their Value.

Titus 2:1-8: But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
 

Thank God for the gift of the older generation. Thank him for their wisdom and experience. Ask that God give the older generation an increasing awareness of the power and necessity of investing in the next generation. Ask that the older generation grow in love and grace toward the younger. That they would open themselves up to being used by God in the lives of the younger generation. Pray for the older men and women you know – that God would reveal the specific ways he would have them serve the next generation. Pray that they would not be discouraged or fearful, but would stand firm in truth that God can use them in powerful ways for the movement of his Kingdom.