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The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children QUOTES

The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children QUOTES

1 " And we need to pray for our adult children to have an understanding of—and a desire for—the presence of the Holy Spirit so they can find all the freedom and liberty, deliverance and restoration, transformation and wholeness God has for them. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

2 " One of my favorite verses in the Bible says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17, emphasis added). "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

3 " We can’t expect answers to our prayers without having faith in our God to whom we are praying. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

4 " Jesus, Your Word says that You came “to proclaim liberty to the captives” and “to set at liberty those who are oppressed” (Luke 4:18). "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

5 " train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

6 " Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17, emphasis added). This is an especially profound and life-changing Scripture, and "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

7 " The answer to that is we have to pray specifically when there is a specific need. We are not only praying for our adult children to be open to all the Holy Spirit wants to do in them, we are also praying for the Holy Spirit to set them free from something in particular. The challenging part is that the Holy Spirit will not do what someone resists Him doing. He will pour out His Spirit on our lives, but He will not force His liberation upon us. He will not set us free if we don’t want to be. This is why praying for our adult children is so important. We can’t force them to want to be free. And let’s face it, there may be things we as parents want our adult children to be free of, but they don’t see it the same way. They like their bad habit, bad influence, or bad choice. Our prayers for our adult children can help them recognize that they do need to be free and what they need to be free of, and our prayers can open their hearts up to want that freedom. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

8 " When they truly understand that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of liberty and freedom, then they will seek after the presence of God and the flow of His Spirit in them. When they see it is by the power of His presence that the bonds of hell are broken, then they will strive to remove anything out of their lives that stands in the way of His power flowing through them. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

9 " We all need to understand that we can’t “fix” or “change” our adult children. Only God can make changes that last in anyone. Our job is to release our adult children into God’s hands and then pray "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

10 " Although there are different stages and seasons of parenting responsibilities, your heart and mind will always be with each one of your children for the rest of your life. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

11 " The list of God’s promises to you is far longer than your list of concerns for your adult child. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

12 " never stop being a parent who deeply cares "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

13 " When we think about how frightening a place the world is, and how rampant and pervasive evil is, and how helpless we feel to do anything about those things, we can drive ourselves crazy with concern. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

14 " But when our children are adults and making many decisions on their own without input from us, we see all the possible serious consequences of making the wrong ones. And we also see how we will be paying for those wrong decisions right along with them. When we observe life happening to our adult children in a challenging way, we want to help them. But how much is way overboard, and how little is not enough? "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

15 " sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children

16 " Only God knows the answer to that question. We parents of adult children may have many concerns, but not necessarily the opening to do anything about them, or even the opportunity to voice all of our thoughts, suggestions, and opinions. At least not to our adult children. But we do have a grand opening to be able to express those concerns to God and invite Him to do something about them. And the greatest thing about that is, when we take our concerns to the Lord—trusting that God hears our prayers and answers them on behalf of our adult children—it means our prayers have power to affect change in their lives. And that gives us a peace we can find no other way. "

― Stormie Omartian , The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children