As parents, our hearts never stop caring for our children - even when they are grown. These prayers for adult children are written for mothers and fathers lifting up their grown sons and grown daughters to God, asking for His protection, salvation, and guidance over their life.
Whether your adult child is walking closely with the Lord or they have gone their own way, prayer remains a powerful way to cover them in love and faith.
At My Sun & Shade you will find heartfelt prayers for adult children facing life's challenges, relationships, work decisions, and spiritual journeys. Each prayer invites God's wisdom, peace, and grace into their lives. As we pray for adult children, we learn to trust God to guard their hearts and lead them according to His perfect will. May these prayers encourage you to faithfully place your adult sons and adult daughters into God's loving hands.
Do You Desire to See Your Adult Children Lead Fulfilling and Happy Lives?
As parents, we desire our adult children to have the best jobs, the best friends, and the most loving relationships possible, and this powerful love for our adult kids urges us to pray fervently with all our hearts for their salvation, future, spouse, and employment.
That is why these heartfelt prayers for adult children have been written and shared here today. Read and pray through the prayers below. Download and print supportive prayer cards in which you can personalize with your adult child's name.
Then, you must believe with all your heart, that our Heavenly Father sees your adult sons and your adult daughters, and loves them. You must trust that God can meet them where they are and that He can turn every hurt, every disappointment, and every failure they face, into something good and beautiful.
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Pray for Adult Children With Prayer Card Sets
Prayer Card Sets to Guide Prayer
Are you seeking guidance and encouragement in praying for your adult children? Explore our faith-filled prayer cards for adult children and let them gently guide your prayers for adult sons and adult daughters with confidence and hope.
➡ Pray for their Friends, Future, and Direction
1. A Prayer for Divine Guidance and Direction in Adult Children's Lives...
Father in Heaven,
Remember me O Lord and hear my prayer today. I come to You as your humble servant needing relief from the heaviness I bear for my adult children. The burden a parent carries for their children is great even when they are adults. Please be mindful of them today and touch them with Your presence. Draw them closer to You and cause them to see Your goodness. Establish them in Your ways that they may follow You all the days of their life.
Give my adult children soft and open hearts that they may hear when You speak to them. Direct their steps that they may not sin, and birth in their spirit a desire to bring glory to Your name through the way they live.
May they come into all You would have for their life by living uprightly and following Your ways. May they find mates that have dedicated their lives to serve You and together may they go on to do great things in Your name.
Lead my adult children today in righteousness and reveal Your presence to them.
Thank You for their life, Lord, and thank You for their health and thank You for bringing them into my life and allowing me to be their mother.
I commit my adult children to You now. Please watch over them today and keep them safe from harm.
In Your Precious Name, Amen.
2. A Prayer for an Adult Child's Job Search and Career Opportunities...
My heart is open to You, and I feel the tug in my spirit to lift my adult child's employment to You right now. Please help them to find the most fitting job according to their abilities and talents.
Allow their employment to propel them into Your purpose for their future.
Direct my adult child's steps to meet the right people that would connect them to the employment of Your choice.
May they recognize Your hand on their life and trust You to bring along the best fitting job for them in Your perfect time.
Bring opportunities through their degree of study, and according to their interests, and cause them to come into Your fullest purpose for their life.
In Your Precious Name, Amen
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3. A Prayer for a Grown Child's Salvation and Spiritual Journey...
Heavenly Father,
You lead and guide our lives as we commit them to you, and we lift our grown children's lives up to you now and place them into Your loving hands.
Lead them and guide them as You see fit. We trust in Your goodness and Your heavenly plan of redemption.
You know exactly what is needed in their life to bring them to their knees. Lord, we pray that they will acknowledge Your truth and plan of salvation, and it will bring conviction. Cause them to turn to You in their desperation and not become bitter, and when they do, O Lord, draw near to them, quickly, and save their soul.
Allow them to feel and sense your holy presence, drawing them close. While we wait and pray, keep them as the apple of Your eye and place Your hand upon them. Protect them, keep them from harm, and preserve them for Your purposes.
In your mercy guide them into truth and help them acknowledge your ways.
In your precious name, Amen.
4. A Prayer for an Adult Child to Discover Their Future Partner, Helpmeet, Girlfriend, Boyfriend, or Spouse...
Dear Lord,
I love You and look to You for wisdom on how to guide my adult child into all the purposes You have for them. May the Holy Spirit direct their thoughts and their steps so they align with truth and righteousness. Continue to give them a love for Your ways, Your Word, and Your holiness.
Assure them of Your watchful eyes in all they do, and carefully attend to their prayers. Bring along their future mate in Your perfect time, and may they be established with Your blessing.
I ask this all in Your precious name, Amen.
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5. A Prayer for an Adult Child to Discover their Life's Purpose and Fulfill God's Calling...
Father in Heaven,
You know the end from the beginning and You know exactly how my adult child will respond to You in any given situation. I pray their spirit would be open to Your leading every day and they will discern what is right and wrong.
As You lead and guide them daily, I trust You will prepare them to fulfill what You have purposed for them to do in this lifetime.
May my adult child respond in willingness to answer the call You have on their lives with great diligence and zeal.
Place upon their heart the desire to walk in Your ways all the days of their life.
We commit their future to You, and trust You will accomplish what cocerns them in Your perfect time.
In Your Precious Name, Amen.
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6. A Prayer for Adult Children to Seek Forgiveness, Good Deeds, and Rediscover Faith in God...
Heavenly Father,
I beseech You this day for my adult child and the tendency they have for doing things that go against Your ways. My prayer is that You will keep them, and watch over them, and not lose sight of their whereabouts. May my prayer heard before Your throne as I seek Your face.
Lord, would You draw them back to You? Father, would you convince them Your ways are right and they bring life, peace and joy?
Let those things they have learned in Sunday school, and in church, not be wasted. But cause them to resurface in their heart so they will come back to you with fervency.
Continue to teach me how to pray for my adult child! As I seek You, draw close to me so I can feel You near. Give peace to my hurting heart and comfort me in my distress.
I commit my adult child to You now and trust You will work in their heart.
In Your Precious Name, Amen.
7. A Prayer for a Grown Child's Well-Being: Improved Friendships, Life Choices, and Future...
Heavenly Father,
My adult child is associating with people I don't necessarily approve of, and it is making my heart heavy with concern. You are fully aware of their comings and goings, so You understand why I am coming to you now.
Lord, please protect my adult child from the influence of ungodly friends and cause my adult child to know right from wrong. Do not lose sight of my adult child Lord! Please surround them with Your loving care and help them to find good, godly friends that will encourage them to do Your will.
Cause my adult child to be concerned about being exposed to bad influence and give them a desire for excellent friends.
I commit my adult child to You, knowing You are a good and faithful God, who hears the prayers of the upright of heart.
In Your Precious Name, Amen.
➡ Prayer Card Sets for Adult Children
It can be incredibly painful when our adult children refuse to listen to our wisdom and guidance. But fear not, as a loving mother, you can still make a difference in their lives through prayer.
Begin to pray their hearts will be softened towards your care, that their ears will be open to your words, and that God's spirit will guide them to do what is right.
Remember that the Lord, who formed them in your womb, knows them better than anyone else, and He can help you pray effective prayers for them.
Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus,
(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV).
