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Pray that your children will walk in God's blessing You never stop caring about your children, even once they've become adults. Your influence in their lives may lessen as they grow, yet no matter the state of the relationship between you and your childrenor your children and Godyou will always have one powerful tool to use on their behalf: prayer.Prayers of Blessing over My Adult Children will help you express compassion for your children's struggles while deepening your trust in God. With daily scripture and devotionals, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Wilkinson shares his three-step guided prayer method based on established biblical prayer patterns, helping you develop the wisdom and boldness to approach God with a spirit of dependence, gratitude, and praise. No matter what season of life your now-grown children are in, Prayers of Blessing over My Adult Children will help you surrender their problems and your own to God, bringing you peace through the recognition that He alone is in control.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	07 juillet 2020
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9780736980081
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( www.Lockman.org )
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Prayers of Blessing over My Adult Children
Copyright 2020 by Bruce Wilkinson and Heather Hair
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-8007-4 (pbk)
ISBN 978-0-7369-8008-1 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Wilkinson, Bruce, author. | Hair, Heather, author.
Title: Prayers of blessing over my adult children / Bruce Wilkinson and Heather Hair.
Description: Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers, 2020. | Summary: You expected to lose sleep when your kids were young but thought by the time they were on their own, you d worry less. Use guided prayer to approach God with a spirit of praise and boldly pray over your adult children and their specific needs - Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020008171 (print) | LCCN 2020008172 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736980074 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780736980081 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Parents-Religious life. | Prayer-Christianity. | Prayers. | Parent and adult child-Religious aspects-Christianity. | Families-Religious aspects-Christianity.
Classification: LCC BV4529 .W5565 2020 (print) | LCC BV4529 (ebook) | DDC 242/.645-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008171
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008172
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Contents
Introduction
Parental Traps
How to Use This Book
Section One:
Praying Through the Traps
Section Two:
Praying in the Truth
Section Three:
Praying Through the Struggles
Section Four:
Praying for the Victories
Section Five:
Praying for the Character of Christ
Appendix:
Scripture Passages to Reflect On or Pray Regarding Parenting and Prayer
Other Great Harvest House Reading by Bruce Wilkinson and Heather Hair
About the Publisher
Introduction
T hose of us who have adult children often experience great pain as we watch them go through the difficulties that occur in life. Our children and grandchildren face a much more hostile and wicked world than we did as we grew up. They live in a day where truth entangles with lies in an ongoing, ever-present manner. Faith fails when it is no longer rooted and grounded in truth.
If you are a parent of adult children, just picking up this book of prayers may be a major step for you. We realize the whole matter of praying for your children may bring up emotionally painful memories and unresolved issues. So we applaud you for pressing forward to pray for your family. While your role of parent may have shifted as to its expectations when your children entered adulthood, your heart as a parent never changes. Your inner cry to pray for your adult children is a healthy one. Honor that desire and pray regularly for your adult children, even when you do not yet see the answers to those prayers.
Many of the guided prayers in this book have been written to help set you free from some of the common parental traps faced today. But even though some of these prayers may address difficult topics, we want to remind you to end each prayer with hope. Hope in God s promises, mercy, compassion, lovingkindness, and His deep desire for your adult children s best. God is not restricted by the wickedness of society. Rather, He can overpower our adversaries as we dwell beneath His protective wings.
One of the deceitful lies of the enemy is that our adult children s wrong and painful decisions are a result of our parental mistakes and errors. It is our hope that this book will set you free from that lie. Ultimately, God does hold us, as parents, responsible for the decisions and responses we choose to make in our own lives. However, as parents, we are not responsible for the failings of our children. There are many godly parents in the Bible who had rebellious or wicked children. Eli, Samuel, and many of the godly kings of Judah remind us of the fact that God-honoring parents do not always produce God-honoring children.
Sometimes, however, our personal sins will result in our children s rebellion and even betrayal, such as happened with Absalom, the son of King David. Such consequences must be endured by parents of adult children until God has had the opportunity to accomplish all that He desires in the lives involved. Thankfully, everything has a beginning and an end, though at times we must hold on for years or even decades to see God s desired result come to fruition.
Because much of life is beyond our understanding, we cannot allow bitterness to take root when things get difficult with our adult children. Rather, we should realize that everything we face provides us with an opportunity to grow and learn, and we must choose God no matter what comes our way.
Darlene and I (Bruce) just returned from a funeral yesterday. The forty-one-year-old daughter of one of our friends had drunk herself to death-the blood vessels in her esophagus and stomach burst open for the fourth time and all the emergency interventions couldn t save her. What a sobering and sad moment, especially with her two married children sitting in the front row.
Three days ago, I dropped off a check to another friend from church whose twenty-one-year-old son was facing a trial for selling drugs, which will likely result in considerable jail time. Darlene and I sent some money to help with the legal fees.
My wife currently is praying with a pastor s wife on the other side of the country as two of her adult children are doing well, but the third has turned her back on the Lord and all of Christianity. Such tears.
A few weeks ago, we attended a beautiful wedding of another close friend s daughter. She was born again, thankfully, but due to a major church crisis a decade ago that had deeply hurt her parents, she had turned her heart against the Lord. She was marrying a nice young man, but he would have nothing to do with Christ or Christianity. We sat with her parents after the wedding, joy mixed with a great burden.
A month ago, while ministering with some American friends in South Africa, Darlene and I wept with a couple who had adopted two young children from another nation. They loved them, cared for them, and raised them with solid Christian values and teaching. One of them became addicted to drugs and tragically committed suicide just a little while ago.
Another good friend s teenage child was caught stealing a few things from the local Walmart. The child came home and, in a moment of despair, hanged himself in his bedroom.
We could share many more stories, but we are sure you can add your own
At the same time, we know of families whose adult children are flourishing in their walk with God and their service to Him. They are bright spots of the power of God s redeeming love and restoring grace.
We are so glad you picked up this powerful book. Although you may be a parent with adult children who are walking with the Lord and you enjoy peace and joy regarding their lives, we believe the vast majority of people purchased this book out of a sense of pain, distress, fear, and lingering feelings of parental failure.
Keep in mind that the first section of this book seeks to prepare your mind and heart to pray in a powerful way for your adult children. You ll find the prayers in the next section. Who are we and why did we write this book? Darlene and I (Bruce) have three adult children and ten grandchildren. We also have suffered the loss of a close relative due to an unexpected teen suicide. We are Baby Boomers and have seen firsthand the shift of family and personal values in our culture. Jack and I (Heather) are a blended family. Together, we have six adult children (Jack has two and Heather has four, including one who is estranged-the child of Heather s teen pregnancy-as well as one adopted from an overseas orphanage) and three grandchildren. We are Gen-Xers and puzzle with so many over the Millennial and Gen-Z struggles our children deal with-an alarming rate of anxiety, loneliness, and a lack of coping skills plague these two generations that have just entered adulthood or are entering it now, according to a plethora of research and statistics.
Both of us and our spouses (Bruce and Darlene; Heather and Jack), know of victory in our adult children s lives. We have celebrated their successful choices, achievements, and growth. Two of them were named class valedictorian, two others are seminary graduates, one has a PhD, two ser