What If My Family Rejects My Faith?
1) Direct Answer
Hold steady with Jesus and love your family more, not less. Don’t compromise the Word to be accepted, but don’t become harsh or argumentative. Pray for them, live a clean life before them, and trust God to turn hearts in His time.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus said following Him can bring a sword into a house, and a man’s foes can be those of his own household (Matthew 10:34-36). He must be loved above father, mother, spouse, or children (Matthew 10:37-39; Luke 14:26—meaning He comes first).
- “If the world hates you, it hated Me before it hated you” (John 15:18-20). It’s not you they reject—it’s Christ in you.
- When father or mother forsake you, the Lord will take you up (Psalm 27:10). He promised a hundredfold family among believers, with persecutions, and everlasting life (Mark 10:29-30).
- Live the life, not the argument: wives win husbands “without the word” by a chaste life (1 Peter 3:1-2). Let your light shine by good works (Matthew 5:16).
- Keep peace as far as it depends on you (Romans 12:18). Give a gentle answer with meekness and fear (1 Peter 3:15; Proverbs 15:1).
- Obey in all lawful things, but if they demand disobedience to God, “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
- If an unbelieving spouse is content to dwell, stay and be a witness; if they depart, you are not under bondage in such cases (1 Corinthians 7:12-16).
- Expect opposition: “All that will live godly… shall suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12). Be faithful unto death, and He will give a crown of life (Revelation 2:10).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- If your peace requires denying Christ, that isn’t peace—it’s surrender. Real love tells the truth and keeps the right spirit.
- Arguments harden hearts; a steady, holy life softens them. Your life will preach louder than your mouth.
- Putting Christ first doesn’t make you love your family less; it lets you love them with a purer love.
- God will not leave you alone. If they push you out, He takes you in, and He can bring them later.
Practical steps:
- Pray and, if led, fast for them by name.
- Keep your spirit sweet; no bitterness, no retaliation (Matthew 5:44).
- Obey parents or spouse in everything that doesn’t make you sin; draw a firm, kind line where Scripture is clear.
- Avoid needless debates; answer briefly, live consistently.
- Provide for your household and be responsible (1 Timothy 5:8).
- Stay in fellowship with believers so your strength doesn’t run low (Hebrews 10:24-25).
- Claim God’s promises for your house (Acts 16:31), and leave the timing with Him.
Short reinforcement
Stand with the Word, walk in love, and keep praying. It’s not defeat—it's identification with Jesus. He will sustain you, and He is able to bring beauty out of the rejection.
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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.
The faith that was once delivered to the saints
53-1129A §24
Now, being that I'm representing all of it, let's go back and find out what "the faith" is. A lot of people says, "Well, I don't go there because that's against my faith. My faith don't teach that. There's only one faith. There's only one church, one body. Do you believe that? There's only one church, and that church you don't join it at all. You're born into the church. I've been with the Branham family this coming April the 6th, I've been in the Branham family forty-four years, and they never did ask me to join w...
Door to the heart
58-0316E §45
...e did something to me, and I won't speak to her on the street. No, sir. She comes out, hangs up her clothes every day, but I won't speak to the old reprobate. No, sir." Oh, my! The Lord will say, "There is a preacher that lives down the street that you've never spoke to. And you shunned him the other day when he was coming down the street, and you never spoke to him." "Now, looky here, Lord, don't You go to dealing with that, because I tell you, he don't belong to my denomination." There is only one church. I've be...
Faith
56-0427 §87
...way (That's right.), down about Mississippi---down in the Southlands. And you're bothered with a disturbance. It's a mental disturbance. It's an oppression, and you're the wife of a minister, and your husband has got the same thing; and what's caused you to be this way is because of your husband. That's right, and you're having family trouble. Up right ready for a divorce, and your husband is kind of possessed. He's let Satan come in and take him over. That's right. Do you believe now? Is that true? Well, go on you...
What it takes to overcome all unbelief: Our faith
60-0729 §18
And myself, I'm more of an illiterate type of person. I'm not educated; I'm sorry for that. I did not get a schooling that I should get. I was raised in a poor family of ten children, and I was the oldest. I had to work to make a living for the family. But somehow, God in His great wise providence, saw fit, way back before I knowed anything about it, to put me a little place with you people. And to that I want to minister with all my heart, to be your brother. And I would not come here, by no means in the world, to...
What it takes to overcome all unbelief: Our faith
60-0729 §36
But now, Father, there's yet another step we can make. And that's why we're here. Some of them are here with sin sick souls; they do not know the joy of serving You, Lord, and knowing You as a personal friend that walks with you on the street, rides with you in the car, talks to you in the secret closet, eats with you at the table. O God, let Jesus become a personal friend, just one member of the family, in every home that's here in this city, throughout the region. Grant it, Lord.