6 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child

12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child by Abraham Piper:Parenting 

Many parents are brokenhearted and completely baffled by their unbelieving son or daughter. They have no clue why the child they raised well is making such awful, destructive decisions. 

I’ve never been one of these parents, but I have been one of these sons. Reflecting back on that experience, I offer these suggestions to help you reach out to your wayward child.

1. Point them to Christ.

Your rebellious child’s real problem is not drugs or sex or cigarettes or pornography or laziness or crime or cussing or slovenliness or homosexuality or being in a punk rock band. The real problem is that they don’t see Jesus clearly. The best thing you can do for them—and the only reason to do any of the following suggestions—is to show them CHRIST. 

It is not a simple or immediate process, but the sins in their life that distress you and destroy them will only begin to fade away when they see JESUS more like HE actually is.

2. Pray

Only GOD can save your son or daughter, so keep on asking that HE will display HIMSELF to them in a way they can’t resist worshiping HIM for.

3. Acknowledge that something is wrong.

If your daughter rejects Jesus, don’t pretend everything is fine.

For every unbelieving child, the details will be different. Each one will require parents to reach out in unique ways. Never acceptable, however, is not reaching out at all. If your child is an unbeliever, don’t ignore it. Holidays might be easier, but eternity won’t be.

4. Don’t expect them to be Christ-like.

If your son is not a Christian, he’s not going to act like one.

You know that he has forsaken the faith, so don’t expect him to live by the standards you raised him with. For example, you might be tempted to say, “I know you’re struggling with believing in Jesus, but can’t you at least admit that getting wasted every day is sin?”

If he’s struggling to believe in Jesus, then there is very little significance in admitting that drunkenness is wrong. You want to protect him, yes. But his unbelief is the most dangerous problem—not partying. No matter how your child’s unbelief exemplifies itself in his behavior, always be sure to focus more on the heart’s sickness than its symptoms.

5. Welcome them home.

Because the deepest concern is not your child’s actions, but his heart, don’t create too many requirements for coming home. If he has any inkling to be with you, it is God giving you a chance to love him back to Jesus. Obviously there are some instances in which parents must give ultimatums: “Don’t come to this house if you are...” But these will be rare. Don’t lessen the likelihood of an opportunity to be with your child by too many rules.

If your daughter smells like weed or an ashtray, spray her jacket with Febreze and change the sheets when she leaves, but let her come home. If you find out she’s pregnant, then buy her folic acid, take her to her twenty-week ultrasound, protect her from Planned Parenthood, and by all means let her come home. 

If your son is broke because he spent all the money you lent him on loose women and ritzy liquor, then forgive his debt as you’ve been forgiven, don’t give him any more money, and let him come home. If he hasn’t been around for a week and a half because he’s been staying at his girlfriend’s—or boyfriend’s—apartment, plead with him not to go back, and let him come home.

6. Plead with them more than you rebuke them.

Be gentle in your disappointment.

What really concerns you is that your child is destroying herself, not that she’s breaking rules. Treat her in a way that makes this clear. She probably knows—especially if she was raised as a Christian—that what she’s doing is wrong. And she definitely knows you think it is. 

So she doesn’t need this pointed out. She needs to see how you are going to react to her evil. Your gentle forbearance and sorrowful hope will show her that you really do trust Jesus.

Her conscience can condemn her by itself. Parents ought to stand kindly and firmly, always living in the hope that they want their child to return to.

Six of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child by Abraham Piper:Parenting  Www.desiringgod.org

Shared by Christine Wyrtzen of Daughters of Promise Ministries in the USA.

(Be sure to check tomorrow's post of the next 7 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child)

Pray with me:

   Father, help me remember that the
best thing I can do, is to love my child,
and to point them to Christ.

   Only YOU can save our sons or daughters, so I will keep on asking that You will display Yourself to them in a way they can’t resist worshiping You for.

   Help me remember that if he/she has any inkling to be with me, it is YOU giving me a chance to love him/her back to Jesus.

   May I always stand kindly and firmly, always living in the hope that my child will return to You.

   I ask this in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

Today’s Bible verse: Job 6:24 "Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred."

Today’s quote: Max Lucado – “Wait for the Lord, and He will make things right. Judgment is God’s job. To assume otherwise is to assume God can’t do it. God has not asked us to settle the score or get even. Ever!”

Some thoughts today: We are to represent Jesus. Pray and bless to overcome evil. Return evil and anger with love and good.

- God is not an angry God, but He can get angry. (Mark 3:5)

- Sometimes it takes a long time to make changes. There will always be folks to aggravate you. God orchestrates such, at times, to bring out what's in you, to reveal your need.

23rd- Sunday evening’s post: 7 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child  Abraham Piper

25th- Tuesday's post:  #19 The Real Battle
C. Peter Wagner

27th- Thursday's post: #20 Learning About the Battle
C. Peter Wagner

29th- Saturday's post: Our Friends
Jean Oathout

A popular post: Taking Hold Together

Dutch Sheets shares with us:

 "In situations where we’re experiencing an inability to get results, the Holy Spirit not only wants to direct our prayers precisely, causing them to light up on correctly, but He also wants to take hold of the situation together with us, adding His strength to ours.

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#18 The Real Battle is Spiritual

C. Peter Wagner tells that
 WARFARE PRAYER, as I
have been describing it, is a
new concept to the great
majority of American Christians.

Many are beginning to ask whether, given their traditions and training, it could ever be integrated into their ministry.

But Americans are not alone. Even Argentine pastors struggle with some of the same theological and practical issues.

I greatly enjoyed talking to Pastor Alberto Prokopchuk of the Los Olivos Baptist Church in the city of La Plata, Argentina, because I could identify so closely with his background.

His traditional Baptist ministerial training had not included a course in Spiritual warfare 101.

His ministry at Los Olivos Baptist was not much different from what we observe in so many typical churches in our American cities: goo, solid Bible teaching ministry; a relatively high moral standard; the fruit of the Spirit manifested to a reasonable degree and church members who pray, tithe, attend services, and witness to their neighbors when the opportunity presents itself.

All this, and no growth!

Under Alberto's ministry, the Los Olivos church had been stalled at 30 members for many years.

The Carlos Annacondia came to La Plata to conduct a crusade.  #11 Evangelist Carlos Annacondia Alberto and Los Olivos Baptist cooperated with the crusade. As they attended meetings night after night, they began learning about warfare prayer by observing Annacondia.

And they were deeply impressed with the results, not only the thousands who were personally healed and delivered from evil spirits, but even more so the 50,000 who made public decisions to follow Christ.

Nothing even close to this had been seen previously in La Plata.

Watching Annacondia and his team conduct the crusade was one thing—carrying this type of ministry over to a traditional Baptist church was something else.

One thing Baptists did know how to do, however, was to evangelize. So the lay leaders of Los Olivos approached Pastor Alberto and said, "Let's have an evangelistic crusade in our own church."

[Pastor Alberto didn't think he could actually preach as an evangelist, but he agree to their challenge. The first service resulted in no decisions for Christ. After agonizing to himself, Pastor Alberto listened to the inner voice to "Try it the way Annacondia does it!" He decided to give it a try.]

He prayed a strong warfare prayer and directly rebuked the spirits as he had seen Carlos Annacondia do so many times.

This time more that 15 people sprang out of their seats and actually came running to the front to receive Christ as their Savior and Lord!
  
Los Olivos Baptist Church has grown from its 30 members to more than 900. But that is not all. Prokopchuk has started satellite congregations in other parts of the city with an addition 2,000 members.

Needless to say, Alberto has been 'doing it like Annacondia' ever since." 

Warfare Prayer

 #18 The Real Battle is Spiritual
By C. Peter Wagner

(pgs. 35-37 Regal Books

Pray with me:

   Father, I pray for our church
leaders, to begin to see the need
for warfare prayer.

   May we be involved to the extent that we will begin to see results in our services.

   Help me to avail myself to prayer that brings results among our people we minister to in my church.

   I ask this in the Name of Jesus, and for His glory. Amen.

Today’s Bible verse: Acts 6:4 "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word."

Today’s quote: T. D. Jakes - "You have to keep the connections God's given you or you'll lose the supply of blessing."

- Some thoughts today: First, you are to be formed, (saved through believing in Christ's Blood sacrifice). Then, you are to be filled with His Spirit. You are to discover your function, so you can be useful in the local Body of believers.

- God will stretch you to make the connections you'll need. We are to learn to get along with people!

- Body ministry is every member finding their function. What are you doing? Make a sincere effort to participate in your local church.
(Notes from T.D. Jakes message)

22nd- Saturday’s post:  6 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child
Abraham Piper

23rd- Sunday evening's post:  7 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child Abraham Piper

25th- Tuesday's post: #19 The Real Battle
Abraham Piper

27th- Thursday's post:  #20 Learning About the Battle
C. Peter Wagner

A popular post: Praying for Pastors
Jean Oathout shares with us:
"There are two lists of prayers that I use
daily in praying for my pastors.

One is from Revive Our Hearts ministry, entitled 31 Days of Praying for Your Pastor..."

  

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#17 Fruit that Endures

C. Peter Wagner relates to
the last post from his book,
#16 Calling the Generals:

"What happened? The Harvest 
Evangelism #15 Plan Resistencia 
proceeded as scheduled with city -wide evangelistic events in August and October 1990.

Cindy (Jacobs) and Doris visited twice more. Edgardo Silvoso reports that the growth graphs of the churches in Resistencia took a decided turn upward beginning in April when the group prayed in the plaza.

In one public event, 250 people 
were baptized in portable pools. 

Crows of almost 17,000 packed into an open field for evangelistic meetings where objects used in occult rituals and witchcraft were burned in a 55-gallon drum each night.

The mayor of the city was reported to have made a profession of faith in Christ. Hundreds were healed physically and delivered from demons. At least 18 new churches were started.

Perhaps a weakening sign of the territorial spirits over Resistencia was the tragic fate of the high priestess of the cult of San La Muerte, the spirit of death.

Two weeks before the massive evangelistic thrust began in October, her bed caught fire. For some reason the flames seemed to be selective. They consumed only the mattress, the woman, and her statue of San La Muerte!

San La Muerte kept his promise of granting his followers a good death in the manner that would be expected of the father of lies!"

Warfare Prayer

 #17 Fruit that Endures
By C. Peter Wagner

(pgs. 33-34) Regal Books

Pray with me:

   Father, help us realize the power
of our own prayers!

   I know that when I am with other believers, there is a sense of God's power, and I'm beginning to understand His ability to move on our requests.

   Make me more aware of Your presence with me, and lead me to be more willing to voice the needs I see around me.

   I ask for Your power to work through me and my friends. In Jesus' name, Amen.

Today’s Bible verse: Is. 41:18 "I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."

Today’s quote: Kathy Collard Miller - “Nothing that happens to the child of God is a coincidence, and when we look at every situation and encounter as God-directed, we will more easily fulfill His plan. This knowledge should also make each of us feel needed, valuable, and important: We are fulfilling God’s purposes for His kingdom.”

Some thoughts today: Don't fret. Lean on, and trust in God. Delight in the LORD, commit your way to Him, rest in Him, and wait patiently for Him, and He'll direct your footsteps. Cease from anger Ps. 37:1-8.

- Ask God for His guidance and timing to face a difficult situation.

- Too many words mean, no one remembers anything. (Notes from Joyce Meyer's message 11/16/14)

20th- Thursday's post: #18 The Real Battle is Spiritual
C. Peter Wagner

22nd- Saturday's post: 6 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child Abraham Piper

23rd- Sunday evening's post:  7 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child  Abraham Piper

25th- Tuesday's post:  #19 The Real Battle
C. Peter Wagner

A popular post: Travail, What is It? Dutch Sheets shares with us, “Travail, what was it anyway? What did it do?  I knew what I thought it was, but I wasn’t satisfied.

Is it a valid form of prayer? I wondered. Is there really a prayer that births?"

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My Heart Shouts for Joy

Debbie McEwen shares with us
how she felt one day after a few dark
days:

The dark days come and tempt me to give up
It becomes so difficult to go on at times
Some days hurt so badly
Some days I just want it to stop hurting

I just want to stop being
I don't think I can take any more
Then You tap me on the shoulder
And I turn back to You

You who are always waiting for me to reach out
No matter what has happened
No matter what I have done or haven't done
You are always there

And when I come to You
You sooth my pains
You replace my emptiness with Your love
You are always the light at the end of the tunnel

You find the way to turn things around
You create solutions where none existed
You change my tears of sorrow to tears of pure joy
I delight to be in Your presence

To feel Your love 
You fill my soul
You fill my being with Your love
My heart shouts for joy because You are with me.


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Here is Love, Vast as the Ocean - Robin Mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8YOPj5TnUM

Pray with me:

   Father, may my prayer come to You each time I find myself in a "dark place".

   I look to Your Word, the Bible, to give me the hope and comfort that I'll need to make it through each of those days.

   Open my heart more to Your grace-giving ability when I am loaded down with doubts or fears.

   Impress upon my heart how You love me, and that You have great concern for me and my well being.

   I ask for this in Jesus' name, Amen.

Today’s Bible verse: Psalm 30:10 "Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!

Today’s quotes: Mary Southerland – “Only God can take the broken pieces of your life and make something beautiful out of each one. He is waiting for you to let go … and trust Him. And you really can trust God. No one loves you like He does.

You may not always understand or even like His process, but you can always trust His heart of love for you.”

Randy Kilgore - "Many of us will face moments when we will wonder if we can go on. If our health fails, if our job disappears, if we lose those closest to us, will be find our relationship with the Lord real enough to keep us pressing forward?

The psalmist reminds us of God's presence and faithfulness (Ps. 30). When he was deeply depressed, he cried out, 'Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me; LORD, be my helper!' (v10). God gave him healing and comfort (vv.. 2-3).

As believers in Jesus, we will never lack what we need to persevere. The Lord will always be near."

Though tempted and sadly discouraged,

My soul to this refuge will flee

And rest in the blessed assurance,

'My grace is sufficient for thee. - Anon

Faith in an all-sufficient Christ enables us to press on.

Our Daily Bread
11/3/14

Some thoughts today: The gospel is God's provision for salvation.

He wants us to learn what He can do to transform us into Christ's image, (He's in God the Father's image). Romans 1:16

- We're to put our faith in the One who did what was necessary to satisfy God's anger over our sin problem given to us down through our ancestors, originating in Adam and Eve.

- Righteousness can be transferred to us through our faith in what Christ accomplished, and in true heart-felt repentance, so we can become in God's sight, just as though we'd never sinned!


18th- Tuesday’s post: #17 Fruit that Endures
C. Peter Wagner

20th- Thursday's post: #18  The Real Battle is spiritual
C. Peter Wagner

22nd- Saturday's post: 6 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child  Abraham Piper

23rd- Sunday evening's post: 7 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child  Abraham Piper

A popular post: Have You known Rejection?
Jean Oathout shares some experiences with us today of rejection, and their effects on her.

"When I was young I was violated, leaving me afraid to be around boys and men. It wasn't until I was 39..." 

  

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The Lesson of the Hula Hoop

Julie Ackerman Link has this to say: 
"One of my favorite childhood toys is making a comeback—the hula hoop.

My friend Suzi and I spent hours on the front lawn perfecting our technique and competing to see which of us could keep a hoop circling our waist longer.

This year I relived that part of my childhood. While sitting in a park, I watched as children of all ages and sizes tried their hardest to keep hula hoops from falling to the ground.

They twisted and turned with all their strength, but despite their exertion the hoops landed on the ground.

Then a young woman picked up a hoop. With hardly any motion, she moved it smoothly and rhythmically up and down from her waist to her shoulders and back to her waist.

Her success depended on strategic movement, not vigorous motion.

In our spiritual lives, we can expend all kinds of energy trying to keep up with others in service to God. But working to exhaustion is not a virtue (Gal. 6:9)

Before feeding thousands of people with only five loaves and two fish (Mark 6:38-44), Jesus called His disciples away to rest, proving that He doesn't need our frantic exertion to accomplish His work.

The truth Jesus taught His disciples, He wants to teach us: Quiet obedience accomplishes more than wild activity. J.A Link

Help me, Lord, not to compare myself and

what I do with others. May I serve where You

want me to serve and do it in Your strength.

I love You and give myself to You.

Jesus wants willingness, not weariness."

Our Daily Bread

10/10/14

Let’s pray: 

   Father, I ask that You get my

attention when I'm too busy and
trying so hard to do so many
things "for You."

   Remind me that I need to take
time with You to see what it is
You want done, how, and when.

   I tend to get it in my head that I must do something quickly, when later on is really what You had in mind for me.

   I need to remember that I don't have to keep up with others in what they're accomplishing.

   I pray You'll help us wait on You for Your instructions for Your plan, and the real purpose of what we're to do.

   I ask this in the Name of Jesus, for His glory. Amen.

Today’s Bible verse: Ps. 119:169 "Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word."

Today’s quotes: Mary Southerland - “For years, I lived by the principle that busy people are productive people. It was only after I crashed and burned that I learned the eternal value of rest and stillness. This pivotal life lesson is stated in the simple words of a shepherd: Psalm 23:2 'He leads me beside quiet waters.' The psalmist writes this soothing promise from the perspective of a shepherd tending his flock of sheep.”

Gwen Smith – “We need spiritual mentors to take our hands as we face life and ministry challenges. Likewise, we also need to grab hold of younger spiritual hands for the journey: to bring them along in Christ, to help strengthen their spiritual muscles, to encourage, teach, and admonish.”

Some thoughts today: Take truths from God's Word and activate them in your life.

- Lay hold of what you read in the Bible, and pray it into existence for you or someone you know.

- Ps. 139:13-17 tells us God knows who we are, how we were formed, and  how precious we are to Him!

16th- Sunday evening's post:  My Heart Shouts for Joy
Debbie McEwen

18th- Tuesday's post:  #17 Fruit that Endures
C. Peter Wagner

20th- Thursday's post:  #18 the Real Battle is Spiritual
C. Peter Wagner

22nd- Saturday's post:  6 of 12 Ways to Love Your Wayward Child
Christine Wyrtzen

A popular post:  Put that Burden Down
Mary Southerland shares with us, "Our air conditioner was just not getting the job done. 

It only partially cooled the house, running night and day, doubling our already exorbitant electric bill.

 I called John, our friendly air conditioning repairman, with a desperate plea for help. When he came to the house, the first thing he did was remove the filter from the vent..."

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#16 Calling the Generals

Cindy Jacobs

C. Peter Wagner shares more with
us about spiritual warfare:

My wife, Doris, and Ed Silvoso agreed 
to call in one of the leading experts in  
warfare prayer, our friend Cindy Jacobs
of Generals of Intercession.

Cindy and Doris made three more visits to Argentina in 1990.

The question in my mind was whether intentional strategic-level spiritual warfare could actually make a measurable difference in evangelizing Resistencia.

In June, Cindy taught two intensive seminars on warfare prayer to several hundred pastors, intercessors and other Christian leaders first in Buenos Aires and then in Resistencia.

Marfa Cabrera, who with her husband, Omar, were precursors of the Argentine revival, teamed with Cindy as her interpreter.

The impact was electric. Not only did the Argentine leaders want to know about strategic-level intercession, but they wanted to see it done and they wanted to do it. Now!

Sensing the direction of God, Cindy invite those who felt a special call of God and who had their lives in order to assemble the next morning in the city.

A group of 80 showed up and marched into the central Plaza de Mayo of Buenos Aires for five hours of intense battle against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

Eduardo Lorenzo, pastor of the Baptist Church in Adrogue' and director of Harvest Evangelism in Argentina, led the small army of intercessors.

Among other things, the group sensed a spirit of witchcraft and a spirit of death in the Ministry of Social Welfare building where Peron's notorious warlock, Jose' Lopez Rega, had maintain his office.

Cindy felt that before going to Resistencia, it was necessary to serve notice of the coming of the kingdom of God to any evil powers that might have had national influence.

When the group left the plaza, they felt a sense of victory. The principalities and powers had not been destroyed, but warfare prayer had in some measure begun to weaken the evil hold they were exerting on Argentina.

Arriving in Resistencia, Cindy, Doris, Marfa, Eduardo and the others found that the names of the spirits ruling over that city had been known by the people for generations.

[Peter goes on here to tell us the names of them, and of their hold on the people in Resistencia]

After Cindy taught a day-long seminar on warfare prayer to pastors, intercessors, the Harvest Evangelism team and others, a group of around 70 felt led to go to the plaza and engage in frontline warfare.

After collectively praying, repenting and confessing the sins represented by these evil principalities and powers, they engaged the spirits  in five hours of spiritual battle.

Only then did God give them an assurance in their spirits that they had broken through. When it was over, they lifted their voices together in praise and victory.

Warfare Prayer

 #16 Calling the Generals
By C. Peter Wagner

(pgs. 31-33 Regal Books

Pray with me:

   Father, help us understand that
warfare prayer can in some measure
begin to weaken the evil hold on our
own towns.

   May we collectively pray, repent, and confess the sins represented by evil principalities and powers we encounter in our warfare challenges.

   Urge us to pray until You give us the assurance in our spirits that we have broken through.

   We ask this in the powerful Name of Your Son, Jesus. Amen.

Today’s Bible verse: 1 Chron. 28:10 "Take heed now, for the LORD hath chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it."

Today’s quotes: Margaret Feinburg - "Ask God to awaken your ability to see and savor His sweet presence and recognize His divine handiwork. Then live eyes wide open to the ways God answers." Wonderstruck

Joyce Meyers - "There's nothing more disgusting than a mean Christian."

Some thoughts today: When you're filled with the Holy Spirit, things change!

- You don't need to take a place of leadership until you do what's right in private. The inner heart/thoughts/attitudes, are what's important to God.

15th- Saturday’s post: The Lesson of the Hula Hoop
Julie Ackerman Link

16th- Sunday evening's post: My Heart Shouts for Joy
Debbie McEwen

18th- Tuesday's post:  #17 Fruit that Endures
C. Peter Wagner

20th- Thursday's post:  #18 The Real Battle is Spiritual
C. Peter Wagner

A popular post:  Problems Have a Purpose
Max Lucado shares with us,
"God will use whatever he wants
to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

My dying dad in West Texas..."

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