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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Letting off the pressure
62-0518 §113
Through your gifts I've fed my children. Through your goodness I've had a ministry. Through the people, the Pentecostals, that I left the Baptist church to come to, you've been the one. When they told me I was a fanatic, there was no such a thing as prophecy, was no such a thing as these angels appearing, and things like that... I take you to record, tonight. Have I ever told you anything out of the tens of thousand but what come to pass? You remember when they come before Samuel, they said, "We want Saul to be a k...
We would see Jesus
58-0612 §28
...with a Bible under his arm, who made the birds keep still while he was preaching? You didn't recognize him then. But you did later, after he was dead. How about you school children? Joan of Arc, you Catholic people? That spiritual woman, who saw visions and was filled with the Spirit, and you burned her to the stake as a witch, as a Beelzebub, like her Lord was killed. You, the Catholic church, did that. But about a hundred years later, you found out she was a saint. Of course you done a lot of repentance. You dug...
Water from the Rock
55-0224 §17
So Moses, this great warrior in the time now, that God had promised Abraham, that in this great long-suffering, that someday, He would... The people would sojourn for four hundred years in a strange land. And during this time... Remember, there was a lapse of time. Listen right close a minute. There was a lapse of time. It wasn't exactly four hundred years; it was four hundred and twenty years. Because, of the condition of the people. Moses came in the right time to bring the people out, but they rejected the messe...
Church Ages, part 1: Revelation Chapter 1
60-1204M §125
Watch. Another thing. When Joseph got the children before him, he looked at them. He seen little Benjamin. He seen Ephraim ... he seen the rest of them there, Gad, and all of them---and the twelve tribes (the ten tribes then) standing before him. He seen them all standing there. He knew they were his brethren. And he looked at little Benjamin. Directly his throat begin to fill up. He knew them was his. What did he say? "Let every man leave me." What happened to his wife and children? They went into the palace. Wher...
Daniel 9: The sixfold purpose of Gabriel's visitation
61-0730E §42
...One of them was lost, and one was saved. Jesus in His temptation on the cross, one thief was lost and the other one saved. When he was exalted He went to the right hand of God. When Joseph was exalted he went to the right hand of Pharaoh. And no man could speak to Pharaoh without speaking to Joseph first and getting permission. And when Joseph left the palace (oh, my!), when Joseph left the palace, trumpets sounded, and men run ahead of him, saying, "Bow the knee! Joseph is coming!" Amen! And when Jesus leaves the...