Pray for my grandson to return to his walk with Jesus

I need prayer for my grandson Izaak to return to his walk with Jesus. He was doing so good in his walk with Jesus, nothing would get him down he would say that Jesus was all he needed, no matter what the weather or transportation he would never miss church or mid week service. And now he puts all that aside for friends and a girl he wants to make his girlfriend .He had strong morals for his age. Then recently he started hanging around with friends that didn’t like his Christian walk and he felt awkward or out of place so he changed for them to feel accepted. I feel the enemy knew his weakness for acceptance with friends and now there’s an older more experienced girl that’s been around him and making him stray from his belief of sex after marriage. He is lost and I pray he gets away from these friends and girls that he focuses on Jesus and our family that wants the best for him. He’s even thinking of making money the wrong way just to be able to treat this girl out and pay his car. I don’t know what to do as he does not listen to me and I’m the one that helped raise him and has always been here for him. I believe there’s strength in prayer. Please pray with me for him. Any advice would be appreciated as I don’t really have anyone to talk to.

I will definitely pray for your grandson Izaak!

I feel for your grandson, because before I got saved at 17, I placed too much value on my friends who continuously broke my heart and let me down in so many ways. But God used that situation and made this an opportunity for me to start seeking Him out and getting to know Him which resulted in me being saved.

Advice: It will require patience and perseverance in prayer for our part as God works valuable lessons in your grandson's life in this situation. So this is going to take some time for your grandson to learn those lessons and come back to Him. Therefore, we really need to get stuck in and keep praying for your grandson until then.

I will definitely pray that your grandson will realize that he shouldn't place so much value in the approval of his ungodly friends and prospective girlfriends and that he desperately needs God to be his number one focus in his life.

I will also pray that God puts real Christians his age into his life to befriend him and be a godly influence to him to encourage him to come back to God.

We should also pray for his friends that they turn to God and be saved as well. If some of them do, that would certainly inspire your grandson to return to the Lord and recommit to Him.


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Thank you. It’s very hard for me to have patience and I don’t want to say the wring things and push him farther away

Yes, it's really important that he continues to see you as someone he can turn to. Knowing how he is at any given point from now on till this runs its course will help you (and us if you share them on this thread) pray for specific needs as he confides in you.


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I don’t think he trusts me to confide but that’s because we end up arguing over like he says I don’t control my emotions. I always pray before I speak or act but it doesn’t help most times. I try to not react when he says or does something that I don’t agree with but it is hard

He's searching for what we all need, love and acceptance. He won't find it 'out there' without 'performing' to 'out there's standards so, he'll eventually figure out there's nothing out there but manipulation and attempts to bend his will toward serving theirs. Take this time to a step back a little and consider, might have you approached your relationship with him in a position of 'controller'? (I've been there). Ideally, he needs guidance, and not another manipulator, those are far too plentiful.

Scripture advises us, 'Train up a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.' The word translated as 'train' here is chanak has the same root as Chanukah or "Dedication," which denotes a setting apart for a specific purpose. It's not meant to imply a pulling or tugging at as much as a gently pointing toward something. For example, when you stand behind a child, place your hands on his shoulders and square them toward the sunset and say, "so you see that..." or toward a road, "that is the way to (the playground)" and then release him and let him run... (my granddaughter will say, "Yaye!' as she ran toward the swings).

Of course, guiding takes a lot more patience and so we do end up doing more pulling and tugging but, I hope you get the idea. Giving him a better 'vision' (the most beautiful) of what's ahead than that which others are tempting him with will help him decide for himself between which roads to take.

I will pray for you too! I know how you feel - I have family that I love and I get quite anxious for them because they still haven't been seeking God to get to know Him and be saved.


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Bowing to false god’s is what the whole world tries to have Christians do. I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ that your grandson Izaak is saved by a soldier of Christ.

You’d be surprised how God rescues or shows up for His children. Sometimes it is very unexpected. He shows up at the most random but perfect times.

Just trust the lord, continue to pray every single day and don’t worry. Worrying only spreads fear to the person you are worrying about and actually negatively impacts others, while trusting in God and praying positively impacts yourself and the people around you.

Acts 16:31

Yes I am trying not to worry and will continue praying faithfully everyday. I do pray he gets saved by a soldier of Christ and is surrounded by godly friends. I do have father that God hears my prayers and knows my heart and my grandsons and will rescue him and lead him back to the right path.

God bless you, your family and your loved ones.

I will say a prayer for Izaak to return to his walk with the Lord.

Update: My grandson just came home and was acting nice but I knew he wanted something and I was right he wanted money for prom I know he wants to take the girl he’s seeing to his prom ( she’s already in college but he wants to take her) he didn’t specifically say it but I only gave him money for himself. Anyways once he received it, his behavior changed back to being slightly rude but I didn’t let it get to me and I already knew he was acting nice just till he got what he wanted but I just prayed on it. I’m trying to be patient and have faith. Do you think I was wrong to give him the money? I wasn’t rewarding his behavior, I just have a good heart and Jesus knows this and my grandson probably doesn’t see it. I did ask him if he went to church yesterday (already knowing the answer but wanted to see his answer) and he says no that he had more important things to do ( he was with the girl). My heart aches because I don’t like to see him like this. Hes not the person I seen just about 2 months ago, he’s changed but I have faith in Jesus and will continue in prayer.

How old is he?

To be honest, I went through time like these when I was his age. It’s very common for these things to happen around that age. You aren’t raising a Pharisee. This boy is following his heart. If you were raising a Pharisee or religious elite as they call them. They literally have almost perfect childhoods. For followers of Jesus, sinners do sinful behavior and Jesus saves them. You don’t want to raise a religious elite that has a perfect childhoods, yet has a wicked heart of scheming, envy and jealousy do you? God turns golden souls into warriors. We make a lot of mistakes but every mistake, we learn from. It’s a way of life. Stop worrying.

I literally slept with 30 women, was an alcoholic, a drug addict, partied, went to clubs, bars, I did it all. I went to church young and those seeds were planted.
Jesus saved me from all of that.

Those same seeds are planted in him.

Yes, sin in the family is painful. What was their mother or father’s childhood like? Sin is usually passed down through the family.

He is 18

I don't think you were wrong to give your grandson money - it was pretty smart that you gave him just enough for him, but not for her!

Please keep on keeping on in prayer no matter how long it takes. From my own experience around that age, God will bring disappointment after disappointment on him until there's a point where your grandson will wake up and realize these ungodly girls and friends are not all that great and that he misses being with God.

I will continue praying that your grandson finds godly Christian friends or that some of his current friends become Christians in the meantime.


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No I don’t expect him to be perfect and I know teens will be teens , I’m sure I was not a joy as a teenager . My grandson has a twin brother and 2 other siblings and their father left them for another family when the twins were 8 . The father didn’t have a good childhood and ended up doing what his father did ( drugs, multiple kids with different mothers) their mother (my daughter) had the twins at a very young age and they were left for me to help take cares of after their father left and their mother seems to not care much about them. So I try to do everything I can to show them they are loved and happy . I guess that’s why it hurts so much. I’m trying to follow all the advice I’m given on this thread and others but let me tell you it is very hard especially when it seems like I’m being pushed to react.

My grandson Izaak just got home and he says he now has a girlfriend and that he can’t go to church after all on Easter Sunday because he has a girlfriend now and has to be with her and her family that day. We were supposed to go to church and then go with family but now that’s changed. This is what I was afraid of because he already has no time for us and is always out with friends doing bad and now it will just get worse. Jesus hears my prayers and knows my heart and I know it’s a part of growing up but he already let’s his friends influence him so much that now I just feel there’s a bigger distraction for him and that he will grow farther away from Jesus and start doing more bad things. All I can do is pray and have faith it will be ok but I just keep having a bad feeling about all of this and I don’t wanna react the wrong way, which I might have already but patience and controlling my emotions has never been easy for me. I don’t know why but I feel like I should give up praying on this, for him to turn back to his faith and God beater I don’t think that’s going to happen now, I feel defeated , he will never listen to me or care about anything I say because he has a girlfriend now (his words) . His sister has a boyfriend and his twin brother had a girlfriend before but neither of them act or acted this way , so that’s why I have a bad feeling and feel defeated because he’s already acting more rude and like I don’t matter anymore. I will pray for myself to not be hurt from his behavior but I don’t think praying for him anymore is what God wants . Maybe this was his will