Trusting God with Your Adult Child

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Author Jodie Berndt offers encouragement to parents who worry about their adult child and guidance for how they can entrust their child to God through prayer.

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0:00.0	I pray most for my adult children that they would follow hard after Christ
0:06.4	no matter what circumstance comes into their life. Though my children were raised
0:10.3	in a Christian home they've wandered away from the Lord, and my prayer for them is
0:14.8	that they would come home to the Lord.
0:17.1	For my son who's 19, I pray every day that he keeps his eyes focused on the Lord that he remembers that the Lord is in
0:25.2	charge and that he just that he can have direction.
0:30.4	Well maybe you've prayed a prayer like that for your children, or maybe you were the reason
0:36.8	that your parents were praying like that.
0:39.7	Today on Focus on the Family, we're going to hear about the power of prayer, especially as your
0:44.9	children become adults. Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm
0:49.7	John Fuller.
0:50.7	Hey John, I think every stage of parenting is great.
0:53.5	I heard that advice from someone and I've stuck to it.
0:56.6	When they were little, my boys.
0:58.0	I loved it.
0:58.6	They'd run out to the car, grab me by the lay and let me, you know, kind of monster walk them into the house.
1:03.8	It was fun.
1:04.8	That kind of stopped at about 12 or 13.
1:06.4	Goodness.
1:07.4	That's a good thing.
1:08.4	Yeah, I couldn't move if they were on my legs at this point.
1:10.7	But, you know, every stage, it has its unique challenges but it also has
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