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The enemy has used the temptations of this world to lure so many of our young people away from the values and teaching of their Christian upbringing. Bestselling authors Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock have both endured the pain of waiting for the return of prodigal children. Yet even as they gave each situation into the hands of the Lord, they did not wait passively, succumbing to fear and despair. Instead they battled for their children in prayer, waiting expectantly for Almighty God to intervene. And He did! Now they tell the parents of prodigals how to pray their prodigals home, and how the experience can draw parents into the arms of their heavenly Father and strengthen their bonds of love.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	04 octobre 2000
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441268709
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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PRAYING PRODIGALS HOME

A book filled with hope, practical wisdom and encouragement for parents of prodigals—not only to help them let go and wait in peace instead of panic, but to persevere in praying their children home to God’s heart.
Cheri Fuller
Author of When Mothers Pray Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
File this one under H for “Hope”! Praying Prodigals Home is filled with wise counsel offered with lots of heart. As I considered the timeliness of this work in the big picture, it occurs to me that in the matter of the great end-time falling away referred to in Scripture, there can be—and will be through persevering, hope-filled prayer—a great return!
Esther Ilnisky
Author of Let the Children Pray West Palm Beach, Florida
There is no pain like that of having a prodigal in your life. I have experienced this personally, and I have seen a great victory. I only wish I had had this book to read during the times when it seemed like nothing would ever change in my child’s life. This book will comfort you and give you hope.
Cindy Jacobs
Cofounder, Generals of Intercession Colorado Springs, Colorado
Praying Prodigals Home is great encouragement and guidance for believers who grieve over and pray for wandering loved ones.
Dee Jepsen
Author of Jesus Called Her Mother President Emeritus, Enough Is Enough Port Charles, Florida
Praying Prodigals Home will give you (1) hope when you feel hopeless, (2) insights when you can’t figure out or fix anymore and (3) direction when you feel tossed about by your prodigal’s ways. The only question left unanswered at the end of this book is “How long?” I’m waiting, too, for my prodigal to come home. Let’s take these tools, dear friend, and go the distance.
Miriam Neff
Author and counselor Kildeer, Illinois
This pragmatic book faces tough issues and provides answers based on solid spiritual truths. A worthy read!
Morris L. Sheats
Senior Pastor, Hillcrest Church Dallas, Texas
Some books about pain remain aloof from the agony, promising help for the hurting but often delivering little more than irritating recipes from unsaved theoreticians. Others are so saturated in hurt that they serve to sympathize but offer scant hope. Praying Prodigals Home is a ray of light from two women who have waded through the corporeal darkness known only to the parents of prodigal children. Real and frank but with a merciful river of joy and faith, this book comforts those who sit in fear while their loved ones trek through the far country. The writers beckon us to reach beyond the pain to a higher plateau, where something called peace is to be had, even amidst the grief.
Mark Rutland
President, Southeastern College Lakeland, Florida
Your prodigals may have moved to a far country but rest assured, God has their address. Praying Prodigals Home reminds us that He can and will save them. This book is a faith builder!
Thetus Tenney
Author of Prayer Takes Wings Tioga, Louisiana
From the heart of these two mothers has come wise counsel. You can tell that they’ve been listening to the Father! This book is filled with story after story, all of them pregnant with hope. As I read this manuscript on an airplane, hot tears filled my eyes and high hope filled my heart. I had to set the pages aside and spend a few minutes praying for my three daughters from seat 4A at 30,000 feet. Thank you, Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock, for helping us pray with understanding! I plan to give this book to several close friends and relatives. It’s like sowing seeds of hope.
Tommy Tenney
Author of The God Chasers and God’s Dream Team Pineville, Louisiana
This book is a must! Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock have filled it with testimonies that act as a spoon with which to stir your faith. These are not stories of “spooky” happenings that frightened backsliders back to God but, rather, of God’s miraculous intervention in answer to prayers. This is a beautiful portrait of a supernatural God working in the natural to draw to Himself our loved ones who are lost. I highly recommend that you read Praying Prodigals Home and that you keep an extra copy around to give to someone whose faith needs bolstering.
Iverna Tompkins
Conference speaker Phoenix, Arizona
Here are amazingly powerful testimonies of believers who have prayed back home beloved prodigals, ages 15 to 94. Loaded with pearls like “Pride is a luxury parents can’t afford when wooing their child back from the pit,” this book is filled with unforgettable stories from well-known and unknown parents who have stood in the gap for a prodigal.
Marion Bond West
Author and Contributing Editor, Guideposts Watkinsville, Georgia

2000 by Quin Sherrer and Ruthanne Garlock
Published by Chosen Books 11400 Hampshire Avenue South Bloomington, Minnesota 55438 chosenbooks.com
Chosen Books is a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan. www.bakerpublishinggroup.com
Chosen edition published 2014
ISBN 978-1-4412-6870-9
Previously published by Regal Books
Ebook edition originally created 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version ®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
Other versions used are:
THE MESSAGE —Scripture taken from THE MESSAGE . Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson, 1993, 1994, 1995. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group.
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The stories shared here are real, but details of certain events and names of individuals and locations mentioned have been changed to protect the privacy of the persons involved, and to maintain confidentiality. Any similarity between persons in this book and individuals known to the reader is strictly coincidental.
Cover Design by Barbara LeVan Fisher
Interior Design by Rob Williams
Edited by Deena Davis
C ONTENTS

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1 The Making of a Prodigal
2 Prayer Strategies
3 Putting Your Prodigal in God’s Hands
4 Prodigals in Prison
5 “Closet” Prodigals
6 Prodigal Parents
7 Prodigal Spouses, Siblings and Others
8 When They Don’t Come Home
9 The Elder-Brother Syndrome
10 Encouragement for Those Who Wait
11 Hanging a “Welcome Home” Sign
Epilogue
Appendix: Waging Your Prayer Battle
Arsenal Scriptures for Spiritual Warfare
Recommended Reading
F OREWORD
Having suffered great disillusionment and emotional pain, a young man who had once known God found himself confused, disoriented and away from his Father’s house.
“It seemed strange,” he would later testify, “to find myself in a drunken state or a drug-induced high, rejecting the God of my childhood and youth. A part of me still loved and wanted God and believed His ways were right, while another part of me seemed unable to find my way out of the fog.
“On several occasions, I remember the Holy Spirit’s clear and quiet voice making itself heard over the clamor of loud music and marijuana-dulled senses. ‘Why are you doing this?’ (I knew the question was for me, not Him. He already knew very well my confusion.) ‘You know this isn’t who you really are. You belong to Me, and I won’t let you go,’ the Holy Spirit would gently remind me. It amazed me that He would pursue me in such places.
“At times I would leave the bar and walk for a while, high on drugs, yet communing with the God who wouldn’t let me go. For a season I continued to blindly run the maze of my confused condition, crashing into pain after pain and disillusionment after disillusionment.
“Then one day, the not-to-be-denied love of God caught up with me and crashed through all my fears and facades. Another prodigal came to his senses, finding himself in the loving embrace of a heavenly Father whose determined love was greater than Satan’s determined hatred and seemingly indestructible hold.”
I know the young man of this story well. I can fill in all the gaps and read between all the lines. I understand his confusion, I can identify with his pain, and I know the overwhelming power of the love and grace of God that he experienced. I know these things because I was that young man.
That’s why I’m so excited about this book. I believe in the hope it will birth in thousands of people. It is a book of hope for the weary, worn-out, interceding warrior who struggles to keep believing. It is a book of hope for the brokenhearted parent who has asked a thousand times, through a million condemning tears, “What did I do wrong?”
It is a book that will not only produce comforting hope, but it also will leave the reader with a clear and confident strategy of prevailing prayer and effective action.
I believe God is greater than rebellion.
I believe the Father’s love is stronger than the prodigal’s pain.
I believe the Holy Spirit can run down any