A Prayer for Heartbroken Dad and mom – Your Everyday Prayer

A Prayer for Heartbroken Mother and father
By Lynette Kittle

“The Lord regretted that He experienced created human beings on the earth, and His coronary heart was deeply troubled” – Genesis 6:6

As a dad or mum, has your coronary heart ever been deeply troubled? If so, know if anyone understands, God does. He understands the worries, disappointments, and regrets of parenting. Let us facial area it, parenting from the really commencing has been very tricky and for quite a few heartbreaking as effectively.

As the great Father, God established two excellent humans, and nevertheless they however turned away from Him and willfully sinned. From this slipping absent, all subsequent generations however carry the outcomes of their sin. God understands the anguish and heartache of kids who switch away from Him. “Hear me, you heavens! Pay attention, earth! For the Lord has spoken: ‘I reared little ones and introduced them up, but they have rebelled against Me’” (Isaiah 1:2).

If God the great mother or father had kids who willingly and sinfully turn absent from Him, how considerably additional can it materialize to human parents who are dealing with their individual weaknesses and struggles? As effectively, Adam and Eve, as the initial human dad and mom, witnessed just one of their youngsters turning on the other to the point of having his sibling’s lifetime (Genesis 4:8). Regrettably, parenting normally arrives with significantly heartache.

God’s Not Pointing a Finger at You
Even nevertheless people level fingers and blame by themselves and every single other, God is not pointing a finger at dad and mom, telling them all the approaches they’ve unsuccessful and unhappy their young children, themselves, and primarily Him in parenting their kids.

Several a weary dad or mum has felt God is displeased, angry, and unhappy in them, but it’s not God’s scorn they are sensing but the enemy of our soul, the accuser of the brethren who is out to blame us for the sin he instigated in the globe. Revelation 12:10 describes how he is actively accusing us, evening and working day, non-prevent in advance of God. He’s the a single accusing dad and mom of their failures with their small children, of it staying their fault if they are not subsequent God and picking out to are living sinful life more than residing righteously. Wherever the devil can discover a way to talk guilt to a mother or father, he will.

While mothers and fathers might fall short their young children, God wishes them to know He is there for them during challenging situations. Like 2 Corinthians 1:3,4 clarifies, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort and ease, who comforts us in all our difficulties, so that we can convenience people in any problems with the convenience we ourselves have received from God.”

Let us pray:

Expensive Father,
You are the perfect Father, appropriate in all your means, and nonetheless your small children strayed from your real truth. Regrettably our youngsters, too, have broken our hearts by the alternatives they have and are producing in life. While we tried using to train them Your word, they have chosen to observe the globe around serving You. We request for Your comfort to help us through the disappointment and heartbreak we are suffering from with their options, decisions, and life.

Even while we know each individual particular person will stand in advance of You to give an account for their very own lifestyle (Romans 14:12), we struggle at occasions with guilt and condemnation, believing the lies of the enemy by carrying the obligation and fault for our children’s sins. But only You, Lord, have the energy to cost-free them from sin, so we talk to You to arrive at out to our little ones today and expose the truth of Your word to them, to transfer upon their hearts in techniques we as parents are not able to access or discuss to. Like Hebrews 4:12 describes, “For the phrase of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow it judges the views and attitudes of the heart.”  

As effectively, we check with You to remind them of the approaches we liked, cared, and taught them about You, to permit the means we planted and watered Your truth of the matter into their lives to get root and expand. And Lord for the ways exactly where we did fail our small children, we request You to aid us get Your forgiveness and comfort and ease, knowing You are ready to make up for our parenting deficiencies and weaknesses. You realized God when You gave us our children that we would not be excellent mothers and fathers and would need to count on You. Help us to trust You to arrive at out to our young children with Your great love and fact.
In Jesus’ title, Amen

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