Discord in Family: Kids of Divorce
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beverlinwrPrayers: 6Requests: 4
January 29, 2018 at 10:13 amBoth my wife and I are divorced from former unfaithful spouses. We’ve both made mistakes in attempting to raise our respective sets of children, but the former spouses continually alienate and undercut our parental authority in their lives. My wife has acknowledged her mistakes of allowing the children to shirk responsibility and is attempting to correct that, yet she is meeting severe push-back and rebellion. My former spouse has been dishonest to the court, and alienated me from my children at every turn, twisting their minds and perpetuating the very deception Brian spoke of today after the daily reading.
We are trying to stand firm on His Word, but my we are struggling with a sense of failure and inadequacy. I am reminding us that the children (hers are ages 16 and 13, mine are 14, 11, and 9) are getting to the point where rebellion naturally enters into the picture, further muddying the waters, but they must ultimately come to the end of themselves before their hearts will repent. The LORD MUST COME FIRST, and if the children “reject” us, it is not us they are really rejecting… My mind recalls Joseph, Job, Jeremiah, Paul, and many others of scripture that received what didn’t make any sense at the time. I only can pray and hope that the children will yield to His Spirit, and come under the willing submission of His Word in this family.
In the meantime, please pray for our strength and resolve to stand firm, and speak the truth in love. And that we don’t allow our tempers to flare because of the flagrant disrespect being hurled at us from our very offspring.
Thank you all…
~Will
ShirleyDPrayers: 1024Requests: 2
January 29, 2018 at 11:20 amWill, I prayed and a network interruption lost it all. I’m believing with you. Really believing God is with you.
soundyaaPrayers: 3085Requests: 12
January 29, 2018 at 11:49 amDear Brother Will,
Isaiah 26: 3-4 says Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace—because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God you have an everlasting rock.Dear Lord Jesus,
Please be a rock for brother Will and his wife, Lord let them not be shaken by what they see. Please help them see that you go all places with their children, that you do not abandon them and never will. Lord help the words they speak sink deep into their soul, regardless of the outward behaviour. Lord when their word is shaken let them think of you in an instance, when there is change, where there is challenge, when there is hardship Lord please be the first thing that comes to mind. Lord be close at such times for each of them and let them remember their fathers teaching that honours you. Amen. -
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