What If My Children Reject God?
1) Direct Answer
Don’t give up, and don’t panic. Hold your ground in faith. You can’t force your children to believe, but you can place them before God, keep them under the testimony of your home, and expect the Lord to deal with their hearts. Live Christ before them, pray for them, and claim God’s promise for your house until they come.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31). God linked your faith with His work in your household.
- “The promise is unto you, and to your children” (Acts 2:39). God didn’t stop with you; He reached to your seed.
- “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). The Word planted will rise again.
- The prodigal son returned (Luke 15:11-24). A far country and a pigpen could not cancel a father’s love nor the pull of home.
- “The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife… else were your children unclean; but now are they holy” (1 Corinthians 7:14). A believer in the house brings a sanctifying influence over the children.
- Job “rose up early” and prayed over his children continually (Job 1:5). A parent’s intercession matters.
- “As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (Joshua 24:15). Set the order of your home openly for God.
- “I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children” (Isaiah 49:25). God fights for your sons and daughters.
- “Though hand join in hand, the seed of the righteous shall be delivered” (Proverbs 11:21). God has a deliverance for your seed.
- Noah found grace, and God brought his house into the ark (Genesis 7:1). Rahab’s household was spared under the scarlet token (Joshua 2; 6). Household mercy runs through Scripture.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice, your children have a will, but God’s Word has a promise. Your faith doesn’t replace their repentance, but it calls God’s dealings to them.
- You see, the same God who could reach a prodigal in a far country can reach your child in a dark hour. If God could stop Saul on the road and turn him, is your child out of His reach?
- God won’t save sin in sin; He saves sinners from sin. So keep your testimony clean. Don’t compromise with wrongdoing to keep peace—that only dulls conviction. Love them, set clear boundaries, and keep the atmosphere of the home filled with prayer and the Word.
- Win them more by life than by argument. Scripture shows a holy life can win the disobedient “without the word” by a godly conversation (1 Peter 3:1-2). That principle works in a home.
- Keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking (Matthew 7:7). Faith holds the promise until the promise holds the child.
Practical steps you can take:
- Make your home God-centered: prayer, Scripture, worship. Let them taste the joy of the Lord.
- Repent quickly for any wrong you’ve done to them; make it right. Remove the devil’s foothold.
- Pray daily by name; thank God in advance; speak the promise, not despair.
- Do not nag; speak truth in love; keep the door of the home open but the door to sin closed.
- When fear rises, answer it with the Word: “Lord, You said, ‘I will save thy children.’ I rest in that.”
4) Reinforcing Statement
Stand on the promise, not on what you see. God’s Word will not return void. Keep them under the Blood by prayer, keep your testimony bright, and expect the God who found you to find them too.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Jehovah-Jireh
57-0309E §11
Being that I said what I did this morning, I would like to explain this: what is these great gifts and things? Christ was in Joseph. Do you believe that? Look how he was sold for thirty pieces of silver (almost thirty), and was hated of his brothers, loved of his father: just exactly like Christ. And how that they hated him because he was spiritual---could see visions and interpret dreams---spiritual, just like Christ. He was thrown in a ditch, supposingly be dead, just like Christ. He was raised up from the ditch...
Demonology, religious realm, part 2
53-0609A §111
After I come out of it, I walked over and set down. I said, "How do you do, ma'am?" She said, "Oh, hello." And I said, "If you'll pardon me," I said, "I'm Reverend Branham, a minister." She said, "Oh, (ahem) excuse me, excuse me, Reverend Branham." I said, "Lady." I told her the story. I said, "I was standing there, and I was condemning you, and thinking what a horrible thing. Maybe you've got children." She said, "I have." I said, "What caused the way to go wrong?" And she begin to unfold a story to me that would...
The mark of the beast
56-0715 §18
Look at David, the Son of David. Christ was the Son of David. Christ in David, hated, despised, rejected of his own people, dethroned, went up over the mountain, looking back weeping because his own, even beloved children had turned him down and dethroned him. And he wept over Jerusalem as He went up. Perfect type of Christ. The Son of David, sitting on Mt. Olives, rejected by His Own beloved. And sat up there weeping over Jerusalem. Said, "How oft would I have hovered you as a hen does her brood, but you would not...
The signs of His coming
62-0407 §82
I think this time it's going to be spiritual death to some of Jezebel's children. Yes, sir. Yes, sir---spiritual death, dry up. I could say something, but I just better leave it alone, 'cause I believe there's a tape recorder out there playing this. Now. Oh-h, my! The day that we're living in! Yes, sir. After his God-given ministry, the true Word of God with true signs and wonders, had been rejected, what could the man do? Bawled them out. Jezebel hated him, and all of her modern first ladies hated him. They didn't...
Seals 3: The First Seal
63-0318 §110
Notice, and when Joseph, rejected by his brethren, he was given a Gentile wife. Potiphar had give him... or, Pharaoh had give him a Gentile wife, and he bore Gentile children-half Gentile and Jew. They give a great symbol that when Jacob was blessing them-Ephraim on one side and Manasseh on the other-he crossed his hands and give the younger child the blessing. And the two kids was added unto the twelve tribes, which was only ten at that time. And he blessed them in Jacob himself. And Joseph, his prophet son, stand...