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My daughter is 15 and, for the last year, she has really been struggling with worldly things that are interfering with her relationship with Christ. I think things are slowly coming to a head for her and she is awaiting the big explosion. I know she's going to be severely hurt when the other shoe drops.

She's involved with a guy who openly admits to being very confused as to what to believe. I believe he's been in so many different denominations, including some heavy involvement with a Jehovah's Witness church. His mother is dealing in the occult now and my daughter has told me there is not a very good "atmosphere" in their home. I'm talking spiritual warfare here.

While I would love to very firmly put my foot down and deny her the ability to see this guy, I think it would be a very bad move to make. I feel it would drive her right into the worldly things she is struggling so hard against.

I have invited this guy to our youth events and he won't even step foot into a church. He's uncomfortable on the sidewalk of the church. He is a very nice kid and we are "witnessing" to him by example. I would dearly love to break the yoke of demons I sense around this kid.

So, I guess I am asking for your prayers and any advice on how to move this kid away from the spiritual darkness he's in and, by association, my daughter. She is aware of the sense of darkness she encounters at his home and has expressed her concern over it, so she isn't totally unaware of what needs battled.

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Christsoldier...

Oh, how I would have loved to have such a prayer warrior when I was younger. As a teenager growing up in a highschool with very little real committment to Christ around me, it's a constant battle to see the counterfeit in the sparkles of worldly living. I still have to keep my head in heavy prayer when I'm around all non-Christians in my classes and after-school activities...it can seem so attractive when it's not under the light of God's eyes.

But for prayer...

God, you have warned us time and time again about the dangers of living in the world. There is tremendous pressure building even in the most "Christian-like" churches in America to copy patterns set by others. Help us to see through what you've declared unholy and defiling. God, there is so much that comes to light when we pray for your guidance, and we ask for just that. Provide light into Christsoldier's daughter's life, and help her to see through the darkness. Give your angels charge over her, Father, and help defend her heart from unknown attacks.

You alone are Holy, God - help reveal this knowledge to her.

Amen.
 
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To my Brother/Sister in Christ. While reading your plea for help I was struck with many thoughts. Being married to a Spirt Warrior I know how dangerous it is out there in the World for not only us but for our children as well. First, I will ask you to pray over your daughter and your house everyday. She brings spir**** in with her. We all do, It may be the spirit of denial, It could be the spirt of confussion, what ever it is please now to see clearly you must make your house clean. You must call on God to clean the house for you. Our job as a parent is difficult. We must help our young to grow in Christ, but now you need to stand strong in front of your child and show them you love them so much, you are willing to become unpopular in their eyes to do what is right. God wants you to protect your young, and sometimes that means not making them happy.

To learn a lesson is one thing to fight for her soul to stay pure, and true to Christ is another. Be strong, God will help you.

Heavenly Father, I come before you now as a humble servant. I am not worthy of your grace but with love you give it. Lord I pray that you touch this family, That you provide the wisdom necessary to see what they are truely facing. Lord give them the words and verses in your text to help them in this battle. Now Lord you know where I come from and you know because you taught me "when you run around dogs you will catch fleas." Lord, I now that pain, and I pray that this family will not go through it. Lord, send your angels to protect this family, Help them put on your full armor God. It is in your precious and Holy name that I pray for these things.

Thank you Papa

CHella
 
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Whitbit and Voiceofangels,

Thank you so much for your prayers. I wish she was little again so I could shield her with myself, but I realize that would only be delaying her becoming a strong young woman for the Lord herself.

I have been praying for a shield of angels around her and her boyfriend, that they be protected from Satan's minions and that they both have their eyes opened to what is real.

Keep us in your prayers.
 
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I pray for your daughter, the guy she's involved with, and for you. I pray that your daughter is spiritually safe those times she is in his house. I pray that he loses his uneasiness around the church so as to attend youth events and see others his age loving Christ. I pray that in the end, God's Will be done and that no one is hurt in the process.
 
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Thanks, AngelAmidala,

She doesn't go over to his house very often because the atmosphere gives her the creeps. I think she's slowly realizing this is not something she wants involved in, but finding it very hard to let go.

BTW, I thought Amidala was the character with the mostest in Star Wars, too. : )
 
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Lord, in your grace mercy, hear our plea for this young person. Precious in your sight she is. Lord, put a hedge of protection around. We ask that whatever relationships she is involved in may be broken, so that you can establish that perfect and right relationship with you through Jesus Christ. Raise up the right person at the right time to speak into her heart. Give that person and others who minister to her wisdom, courage, strength, endurance.

Lord, we pray for the parents and other family members as they struggle and suffer. Surround them with fellow Christians who are quick to listen, free to love, and eager to be your hands, feet, and shoulders to cry on. Especially grant all of them the support of your presence. Fill them with your Spirit, grant to them a special measure of love to extend to this trouble young person.

While we want immediate answers, we want even more to be in your will, Lord. We pray because of the great promises that you have extended to those who call upon you (1 John 5:14-15) - through our great, wondrous, loving Savior, Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 41:10
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.
 
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I also have a 15 yr old daughter..that was very involved in the youth at our church, saved and a straight A-B student. As of late she too has turned to worldly things, and gone astray..to the point of being arrested for shoplifting and getting suspended from school. Thankfully, the case against her and her friend was dismissed...thank you Jesus but they assured her if she gets into trouble again will face either probation and/or possible removal from the home. Unfortunately she lives with her dad, my ex, and he's not a christian and took her out of church, blaming alot on it. She would've quit anyway she said because our pastor and her youth leader were forced into resigning. That is another story in itself.

All we can do is be there for them, pray, support, love and encourage them. At 15 they are so vulnerable, yet think alot of times that us parents know nothing, so we have to tread lightly. I will pray your daughter open her eyes, ears and especially her heart and see the danger she faces if she continues with this friend. Better yet that she be a huge witness to him AND his mother..as well as you too..so that they see the truth and the way. May God continue to lead you both in this situation and His will be done!
 
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My prayers go with you ChristSoldier.

It may be that your daughter, based on what you have said, is in fact where God wants her to be at this time. That she has expressed concerns speaks well for her, and for her path. At 15, she is well and truly of an age where she is capable of working effectively for God, (William Booth was 14 when he founded the Salvation Army) but like all caring parents, we don't particularly like to see our young being exposed to the darkness. Stand watch as best you can, but your attitude in choosing to not interfere is, as far as I can tell and based on your comments, entirely the right course.

I commend to you the passages at Jude 20 - 23 and 1 Corinthians 5 : 9-13
 
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Thank you, Thunderchild. I really was wondering if I was doing the right thing by letting this friendship continue. You and another have affirmed me here so, unless I see some really dangerous things I will continue to keep watch before interfering. May God bless you and yours.
 
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