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3 Ways to Pray for Your Prodigal Child

One day during his senior year in high school, my son left the house taking a car and money withdrawn from his savings account. He sent me this text:

For My Family

  • To cause my children to be disillusioned with wrong choices, becoming more and more uncomfortable. Change only happens when we are uncomfortable.
  • That they stop deceiving and are honest with themselves and others, recognizing the lies of the evil one.
  • To pour out the Holy Spirit upon our family, knowing He answers this as He promises in Luke 11:13.
  • For the Spirit to grant unity and healing, guarding our marriage and the relationships between my children.

We have dealt with eating disorders, anxiety, and other issues among our children. These struggles taught me new ways to pray whether circumstances improved or not.

After my son left home, he came back a week later, beginning a year-long struggle that included three different treatment centers, leaving him at a homeless shelter, three months on the streets, and then the fourth treatment center—through which the Lord humbled him under His mighty hand and set him free from bondage. He is two-and-a-half years clean, attending college, working, and knows it is God who saved him.

Don’t give up praying even when it seems like the battle is being lost. May the Lord encourage you and show you how He would have you pray and surrender your children to Him.

God loves them more than you ever could.

Reprinted from Revive Our Hearts. 

Jenny Walsh has been married for 28 years and has four children. She worked as a family practice physician for many years, but now the Lord has led her into a discipleship and prayer ministry. She has lived in Columbia, South Carolina since 1995 when she and her husband were stationed there with the U.S. Army. She became a Christian the summer after graduating from high school and has been held by the Lord ever since.

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