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If you're a mom or dad who has watched your adult child's life spiral out of control, you're not alone. You join a reluctant club comprised of millions of parents concerned about the bad choices their son or daughter has made.Author Allison Bottke is part of that club too. She has watched in agony as her son made choices that eventually resulted in his arrest. Out of her experience came her bestselling book Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, the first in a highly successful series of Setting Boundaries books.Now Allison offers youand all parents in paina book of prayers written specifically to help you intercede with God on behalf of your prodigal.If you know the pain of parenting an adult child who has lost his or her way, you will also know that ultimately your best hope is in God's intervention. Allison's prayers give voice to the cries of your own heart and your desire to seek and trust God with your adult child's present and future.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	01 mars 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736962445
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
A list of Bible versions used is included in the back of this book.
Cover by Franke Design and Illustration, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cover photo Bertrand Demee / Photographer s Choice RF / Getty Images
Published in association with the Steve Laube Agency, LLC, 5025 N. Central Ave., 635, Phoenix, Arizona, 85012.
ONE-MINUTE PRAYERS is a series trademark of The Hawkins Children s LLC. Harvest House Publishers, Inc., is the exclusive licensee of the trademark ONE-MINUTE PRAYERS.
ONE-MINUTE PRAYERS FOR YOUR ADULT CHILDREN
Copyright 2015 Allison
Bottke Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-6243-8 (padded hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7369-6244-5 (eBook)
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Dedication
For Alicia
An adult child for whom many have prayed and whom God has redeemed and restored for a great and glorious purpose.
And for my Serenity Group.
I love you all.

A New Day Is Dawning
Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
M ATTHEW 7:7-8 NLT
Contents
Dedication
Introduction
The Six Steps to SANITY
A-ASSEMBLE Supportive People
Accomplishment
Addiction (Alcohol and Detox)
Anger
Boundaries
Change
Choices
Compassion
Confidence
Consequences
Courage
Danger
Dependence
Depression
Direction
Disability
Discipline
Employment
Enabling
Estrangement
Faith
Fear
Forgiveness
Freedom
Friendship
Fruitfulness
God s Love
Grandchildren
Guidance
Guilt
Healing
Health
Help During Crisis
Hope
I-IMPLEMENT a Plan of Action
Incarceration
Joy
Legal Issues
Letting Go
Listening
Memories
Money
N-NIP Excuses in the Bud
Obedience
One Day at a Time
Prayer
Promises
Purpose
Rebuke the Enemy
Relationships
Repentance
Responsibility
S-STOP My Own Negative Behavior
Salvation
Self-Control
T-TRUST the Voice of the Spirit
Thankfulness
Tough Love
Truth
Victory
Wisdom and Discernment
Word of God
Worship
Y-YIELD Everything to God
SANITY Support Group Creed
Bible Versions Used
Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children
About the Author
About the Publisher
Introduction
My Fellow Parent,
When our children officially become adults, the pendulum of legal responsibility might change, but the responsibility of the heart never does. We love them with every fiber of our being regardless of the choices they make. We ache for their security, and we long for them to find their purpose and appreciate their gifts and blessings. We desperately want them to feel the peace, joy, grace, and love of God.
Our assignment to pray for our adult children has no expiration date. Moms and dads everywhere continue to go to their knees in passionate prayer for their kids regardless of their age or the state of their relationship.
I love my adult son, and I have many joyful memories of our times together. However, I m one of many parents who have struggled for years with how and when to apply tough love. I ve tried to fix, rescue, and change my son-to no avail. I ve watched him hit bottom and bounce more than a few times. I ve talked, cried, and prayed with him through inch-thick security glass, prison bars, and salty tears. I have felt the bitter sting of guilt, shame, fear, anger, and despair as a parent. In these desperate places, I ve grown closer to the God who loves me-and my adult child.
It doesn t take a village to reach God. It takes one heart willing to stop for one minute to pray. One heart that is open to say, God, please give me direction and peace. Please hear the longing of my soul. And God, please be with my adult child and keep him (her) safe. We serve a God whose love, grace, goodness, and miraculous power are only a prayer away.
You may be blessed with a strong and healthy relationship with your adult child, or you might be in pain and quiet desperation. Either way, you can rest assured that God can and will show you His face and His love. We must believe unequivocally that God will hear and respond to our prayers for our children-in His time and according to His purpose.
But how can we ask God to give hope, peace, love, or direction to others when we ourselves are hopeless, restless, guilty, or lost? We can pray effectively for our adult children only when we pray effectively for ourselves. The two go hand in hand. Scripture teaches us that the prayer of a righteous man avails much.
We strengthen the bond of our relationships with our adult children when we come before God with prayerful, humble, repentant, teachable, and righteous hearts.
I invite you to join me in doing that now.
The Six Steps to Sanity
I introduced the Six Steps to SANITY in my book Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents . These steps now appear as the guiding principles in all the books in the Setting Boundaries series from Harvest House Publishers. I mention them in many of the prayers in this book.
It is my prayer that God will continue to use these six steps to speak wisdom and truth into the lives of His children who long to grow closer to Him and to those they love.

The Six Steps to SANITY
S -STOP my own negative behavior
A -ASSEMBLE supportive people
N -NIP excuses in the bud
I -IMPLEMENT a plan of action
T -TRUST the voice of the Spirit
Y -YIELD everything to God
A-ASSEMBLE Supportive People
My Angelic Support Group
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
P SALM 91:11
I m so thankful to You, dear Lord, for bringing me to this place of hope, healing, and sanity.
Thank You, too, for showing me the part I ve played in the ongoing drama of my son s (daughter s) chaotic life. Lord, I ve been running on the gerbil wheel of insanity for too long as I ve tried unsuccessfully to change, fix, and rescue him (her). Help me break my habits of enabling and judging. Reveal to me the things You want me to change in my own life so I can pray more effectively for those I love. Let others hear You through the words I speak and see You in the way I live.
I can t do this on my own, Father, so I m thanking You in advance for sending Your angels to stand guard and be my heavenly support group on earth. I praise Your holy name for the grace, mercy, and love You have given me.

The A Step in SANITY
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
E CCLESIASTES 4:9-10
Jesus, I ve made plenty of poor parenting choices. Please forgive me and create in me a pure heart and clear vision so I can walk confidently in Your will.
Lord, I praise You for the supportive people You send into my life. They help me look at my situations and circumstances objectively so I can respond to my adult child more rationally and less emotionally. Please help me overcome any silent shame or fear I may carry that keeps me from telling others the painful truth about my child. And please help me to listen with an open mind and heart and not to be judgmental when others share their stories.
I thank You in advance for guiding my head, heart, hands, and spirit to the lessons You will teach me daily from Your Word. Please help me to consistently utilize the SANITY Steps-not as temporary stopgap measures during times of crisis, but as the building blocks of a new way of life.
Accomplishment
Yield Fruit in Season
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither-
whatever they do prospers.
P SALM 1:3
Heavenly Father, I thank You for the mighty work You re doing in the life and heart of my adult child. You know how difficult it has been for (name) to find his (her) calling in life. (Name) has struggled to get an education, juggle part-time jobs, and manage other responsibilities, and I m filled with pride at the person he (she) has become. Even better, (name) is growing in faith and dependence on You along the way-that makes my heart sing and praise You in joy!
Lord, please show (name) how to align all his (her) actions with You. Open every door (name) should walk through and slam shut every door that he (she) shouldn t. Give him (her) peace about every decision. I pray that every season of (name s) life will be filled with success, prosperity, and abundant fruit as he (she) walks in obedience. May (name) experience the satisfaction of a job well done and bring glory, honor, and praise to Your holy name.

Persevere and Receive the Promise
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
H EBREWS 10:36
Lord, I m so thankful that when I m weak, You are strong. As I ve followed Your direction to set healthier boundaries with my adult child, the constant fears I once had have lessened. I m growing stronger through Your Spirit in me. I m now able to accomplish things that once seemed impossible, including praying for (name) in