Our children need prayer
Posted: March 16th, 2008, 9:11 pm
niki wrote:have hope for my own children who are not walking with the Lord...i HAVE to believe that there isn't anything the Lord can't do.........Gwennaford wrote:Tell me that's not the Lord at work in his life, snatching Jeremy out of the enemy's clutches. PRAISE GOD.
I jumped off Veronica's thread about Jeremy when this became a whole new prayer request.
Niki, your words hit home with me today. I was a basket case at church all day. I started tearing up in Sunday school & by the time the service started, I had tears running down my face that didn't stop all day. The Sunday school leader stopped by our pew and asked me if he needed to apologize to me! When I went to the altar during the invitation to pray away this mood that has bothered me all week, it came out that I'm carrying a burden for my children who are not walking with the Lord.
Kayce (28) is saved and baptised, but laughs off the idea of prayer by making jokes. Her new husband Eric (27) was once insulted by a hypocritical Christian and uses that as an excuse not to go to church. They plan to allow their daughter Erika (4) to decide what she believes when she grows up, without any guidance from the parents.
Michelle (19) is saved but refuses to be baptised. She sees it as a public spectacle and states that religion should be a private matter between her and whatever God she's worshipping at the moment. Right now she spending all her time with a wiccan family.
Neil's 3 boys, Neil, Bobby & Adam (in their 40's or close to it), their wives and children are not close to us. I don't know if any of them are saved. They are good, hard working people who are focused on their careers and activities. In the 20 years Neil & I have been married, the boys have seen their father an average of 3 times each, so they really have no idea what a strong & godly man he has grown to be.
Michelle still lives at home, but the others are scattered all over. None of the kids will listen to their parents, and resist any efforts to approach the topic. These are beautiful, intelligent, brilliant children whose lives are rapidly wasting away.
Please join me in praying that the Lord will put Christian workers in their paths to lead them to salvation, and help them grow strong in godly wisdom and faith.