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Chelsea Stanley is the author of 5 Things to Pray for Your Parents: Prayers that Change Things for an Older Generation. She teaches adult children how to better love and honor their parents with God’s help.

5 Things to pray for your parents
Little children often see their mothers and fathers as the ones with all the answers. It’s not until we grow up that we realize our parents are just like us—regular people in need of prayer.
This guide will help you to pray rich, intentional prayers for your mother or father—be they biological or adoptive, working or retired, frail or fit, married or separated, believers or unbelievers.
Each of the 21 prayer themes in this book takes a passage of Scripture and suggests five things to pray for a particular area of your parents' lives. Work through it as part of your daily quiet time or pick it up whenever a particular need arises.
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