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.
Souls that are in prison now
63-1110M §108
...reat wonders, (Joel said so) but there'll be no time for redemption. It's all over. The Lamb's done took his Book, and his redeemed is over. As Jesus first preached and was rejected and then went and haunted those that were in there---preached to them that were in prison and could not repent---no time for salvation. That same ministry will have to repeat again. What if that could be the third pull, to the eternal lost? What if it is there? I hope it's not. What if it is? Think of it, just a minute now. What if it i...
Elisha the Prophet
56-1002E §23
And then there was a ... oh he got a... Now remember, he had a temper, too. And some children begin to make fun of him because he was bald-headed. And he cursed those children, and that wasn't so much for the children's sake: it was for the parents that didn't raise up their children to respect God. That's what it was. The parents lost their children because two she-bears killed forty-two of them. Must have been a hundred or more running after Elisha. And going right down through Samaria where they'd had the Word p...
The book of Exodus, part 2
55-1006E §43
I said, "I'm sick and tired of this stuff, everywhere." God is great in battle. When He sent you, don't be scared. Stand there. And see God's salvation. Said, "Stand still." There's only One who could produce salvation, that's God. No one else can bring salvation but God. He said, "Now stand still and see the salvation of God." Here come the army. Oh, when I think of it. Here come the army. The dust a roaring. And when Moses stood still to see the salvation of God, the great pillar of fire that was hanging before t...
Mary's belief
59-0409 §49
Saint Francis of Assisi, the walking preacher with a Bible under his arm; who the birds was hollering, and he said, "Be still, my little sisters, while I preach the Gospel." Then after he was dead, you made him a Catholic. How about Joan of Arc? Any you school children would have knowed of her. How that lady saw visions, performed miracles. And what did the Catholic church do? Burned her at the stake as a witch! As a Beelzebub ... [break in tape]. For she was anointed with the Spirit of God, and she performed mirac...
We would see Jesus
62-0712 §51
Notice, now, Moses being this one that God had raised up and that is going... In Deuteronomy 18 he spoke to the children of God and said that "The Lord your God shall raise up a prophet like me." Moses, the leader, the one that delivered Israel, spoke that "The Lord our God shall raise up among you, of your brethren, a prophet like unto me. And God said it'll come to pass that who will not believe that prophet will be cut off from amongst the people." So, that is to raise up a prophet. Now we realize that he was to...