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.
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63-0317M §176
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The Queen of the South
58-0620 §51
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God keeps His Word, part 1
57-0306 §15
Now, that's what it is coming to now, my brother. It's coming a place that those who reject Christ, He's becoming darkness to them; to those who except it, it's becoming light to them. We are living in that day just before crossing. And did you notice how easy it was for the Creator, God, to send down a strong east wind, and just divide the Red Sea and take His children across. Oh, the Red Sea got scared and just walled itself up, because God's path lead through the middle of it. That's the way God does things. If...
Seals 7: The Fifth Seal
63-0322 §165
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The Angel of the Lord
51-0502 §33
God went down there and told Moses, "Set yourself. Go down there and tell the people. I'll harden Pharaoh's heart, 'cause he don't believe." And do--could you imagine, that how a man that rejects Light... When God went down there with Moses, it wasn't Moses; It was God. And God said, "I will send an Angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee to the place that I have prepared." Is that right? And when the children of Israel seen this Angel, He was a pillar of fire. Is that right? Amen. I'm just old...