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    Prayers for Your Adult Children: A Thirty-Day Devotional
    Prayers for Your Adult Children: A Thirty-Day Devotional
    Prayers for Your Adult Children: A Thirty-Day Devotional
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    Prayers for Your Adult Children: A Thirty-Day Devotional

    By Lisa Hodgins

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    Our families need prayer now more than ever. The US Census Bureau has determined that one-third of American millennials (ages 1834) still live with their parents. Almost daily we are hearing reports on the news about the rise in drug use. Are you worried about the life choices your adult children are making? Are you helping or enabling your children? Do you question if Gods at work in their lives when you dont see your prayers being answered?

    This thirty-day devotional will help you learn to draw strength from God one day at a time. With over two hundred scriptural references, you are guided to rethink your approach to helping your adult children. By seeking Gods guidance, meditating on his promises, and having an open heart and open ears, let God give you direction in your relationship with your children. Each daily devotional covers a relevant topic, provides correlating scriptures, includes a sample prayer, and a Meditation Moment section. Then reflect on what you read, record in the Meditation Moment section what God is prompting you about, and pray how you can apply what you learned. God loves your children more than you do. Let him help you develop stronger, healthier relationships. We cant change them, but God can! Be encouraged as you use this thirty-day devotional tool to help you grow in your faith and inspire you with new ways to improve your relationship with your adult children.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateSep 19, 2017
    ISBN9781512798418
    Prayers for Your Adult Children: A Thirty-Day Devotional
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    Lisa Hodgins

    Lisa y su esposo, Jim, son muy parecidos al Brady Bunch, mezclando dos familias con seis hijos. Sin ser ajena a la tragedia y los desafíos, Lisa aprendió a sacar su fuerza de Dios y confiar en las promesas de su Palabra. Lisa es miembro orgullosa del Space Coast Writers Guild y del equipo de redacción de devocionales diarios de Calvary Chapel Melbourne. Además, Lisa y su esposo están involucrados en varios ministerios en su iglesia. Lisa reside en Florida y disfruta pasar tiempo con su familia y sus ocho nietos, viajar, hornear y ser voluntaria en su iglesia y en la comunidad.

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      Prayers for Your Adult Children - Lisa Hodgins

      Copyright © 2017 Lisa Hodgins.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

      Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5127-9840-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5127-9841-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017911917

      WestBow Press rev. date: 09/15/2017

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Chapter 1 CHOICES

      Chapter 2 COMFORT

      Chapter 3 COPING

      Chapter 4 DISTANCE

      Chapter 5 EMOTIONS

      Chapter 6 ENCOURAGEMENT

      Chapter 7 EXAMPLES

      Chapter 8 EXPECTATIONS

      Chapter 9 FEAR

      Chapter 10 FINDING JOY

      Chapter 11 FINDING REST

      Chapter 12 FORGIVENESS

      Chapter 13 GRACE

      Chapter 14 GUIDANCE

      Chapter 15 GUILT

      Chapter 16 HOPE

      Chapter 17 HURTS

      Chapter 18 JUDGING

      Chapter 19 KINDNESS

      Chapter 20 LETTING GO

      Chapter 21 LISTENING

      Chapter 22 LOSS OF A CHILD

      Chapter 23 PATIENCE

      Chapter 24 PEACE

      Chapter 25 PROTECTION

      Chapter 26 SELF-CONTROL

      Chapter 27 STORMS

      Chapter 28 TRUST

      Chapter 29 WAITING

      Chapter 30 WISDOM

      BECOMING A CHRIST FOLLOWER

      INSPIRATIONAL BIBLE VERSES

      PRAYER TIPS

      PRAYERS FOR OUR CHILDREN

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      INTRODUCTION

      The illusion is that when you have a child you will love them, raise them right, and after high school they will go to college, get a job, live independently, and get married. You can then enjoy your life surrounded by a wonderfully-large family of kids, spouses and grandchildren without any more worries.

      The reality is that we live in a fallen, sinful world. There may be many happy, memorable times parents of adult children experience while watching their children live out their lives. However, too many parents experience difficult and painful times as they watch their children make bad choices with devastating consequences.

      We are not perfect people. We are not immune to making bad choices. We struggle with our own choices and the consequences of those choices every day. Our children will do the same. It is human nature. With each generation, we are seeing our society getting further and further away from God and his values. From early childhood, our children are bombarded with worldly things and Satan’s schemes to draw them away from God.

      Is there hope? YES! Can their lives be changed? YES! But not by you; that’s God’s job! Change can come about and God can use you, if you are willing. How does God use us to reach our adult children who don’t know God or who have strayed from their godly upbringing? He uses us primarily through prayer and by our own godly example of living and loving. While that sounds very simplified, it’s a life-long practice with eternal rewards. (Isaiah 40:31; NLT) reads …but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint. Never underestimate the power of God and his ability to reach the lost.

      What if we made lots of mistakes raising our kids, or we weren’t living for God at the time we raised them? What about those times we were not being a godly example? It doesn’t matter. God knows this and still has a plan for them. God wants to provide our kids with even more blessings than we could imagine or ever wish for them. Our God can restore broken hearts, broken relationships and even broken dreams. Our God can heal our hurts as well as theirs. (Revelation 21:5; NLT) states, He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.’ Our God can make all things new.

      You will find at the bottom of each page a Mediation Moments section. Don’t just read the page and walk away. Ask God to show you what he wants you to learn from each lesson. This section is where you record what specifically

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