In recent months, my wife and I have joined the ranks of that beloved demographic we call grandparents. We’ve been so grateful for every chapter of our lives, but this new season is one we are especially relishing.

Like many of you who are grandparents, we began praying for our granddaughter before she was even born. Praying over her and for her daily is an easy assignment that flows out of our love for her.

Recently, I was praying with everything in me for my granddaughter and her parents' future. The Spirit was with me, bringing to mind every promise of God. My petitions were fueled by trust in God’s power and love, a holy imagination and my granddaughter’s still unrealized potential. Every expression of thankfulness, every request for God’s blessing and every desire for His power to manifest in her life launched from a single platform: faith.

So much in Scripture teaches us, even exhorts us, to pray with unshakable belief, to open our ears and hear the promises of God, and invite them to dwell deep in our hearts. God wants us to pray these “Prayers of Faith” to anchor our trust in His assurances, knowing that God is always true to His Word. Only then do we pray in ways that abandon ourselves and our cares to God’s loving goodness and divine purposes.