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It is so critical to realize that the never interpret the silence of God as the indifference of God.

God is frequently silent, but he is not indifferent. The next thing that they have to do is to never give up.

That's Dr. Irwin Lutzer. He's our guest today on Focus on the Family, talking about how you as a parent can pray for your child.

Your host is Focus President and Dr. Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller and Jim. It's vital that we bring our children and their hearts to Jesus.

Absolutely. I mean, that's the number one thing I think on a parent's heart and mind. I know that's true for Gene and I.

Our boys are in their early 20s. We want them to have a fervent faith. Sometimes we're scratching our head. Are they there? They assure us that they know the Lord and that's good.

But you always want to see more, right? It's just natural for a parent to want to see a vibrant faith.

And we're going to talk today about those young adults who may not be expressing that. We call them prodigals from time to time.

And they're behavior suggests that maybe they're not close to the Lord. So I'm excited that we're going to cover that topic today because many, many parents are going through difficulties with their adult children.

And we hear so much heartache and grief from parents. And we're so glad our counseling team can talk to them and guide them.

Certainly if you're there, give us a call. Our number is 800A family. Well, Dr. Irwin Lutzer is pastor Emeritus at Moody Church in Chicago.

He was the senior pastor there for over 36 years. He's written a number of books. And one of those that is the basis for our conversation today is called a practical guide for praying parents.

Get a copy from us here at the ministry. The details are in the show notes.

Dr. Lutzer, welcome back to focus. It's so good to have you.

I'm so glad to be back and to have this exciting topic because no matter where I go, the great burden on the hearts of parents is wayward children.

Yeah. And we're going to be talking about how I believe we should pray for them and how transforming it was for me to understand a new way of praying. But we'll get into that.

Well, you know, so often we as parents, we carry so many burdens. And there's a lot of things tugging at our children's heart, especially if they're in public schools, the things they're exposed to.

It could be a daunting task to live in this modern world and be raising kids that have so much exposure to things that, you know, just two decades ago, kids didn't see social media pornography.

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