Author: Bruce Wilkinson, Heather Hair
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Pages: 144
My GoodReads Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
I
have great faith in the power of prayer, especially so when it starts from a place
where our deepest need meets our greatest faith. Nowhere is the power of faith
displayed more strongly than when God-fearing parents trust their children to God’s
infinite goodness.
I’ve
seen the power of prayer at work in my own life and I know how I could have
been on a far less happy path were it not for the faith and unceasing prayers
of my parents. It was with this understanding that I too started praying for La
Niña and El Niño when they were born. I still pray for
them every day.
Of course, my children are still young. La Niña is a pre-teen and El Niño younger, so I don’t need this book right now but I have two beloved teenage nephews, and I know a few people with challenging family members, who I always pray for. So I hoped this book would provide me insight to pray more pointedly for their situations.
The
books starts by reminding parents that adult children are not their responsibility.
That when a child becomes an adult or is married, parents must cede their
responsibility and assume the role of mentors. On an aside, try telling Indian
parents that.
It
points out the traps that parents fall into, while assuming responsibility for
adult children, and gently guides parents to ask God, their children and themselves
for forgiveness for any failures in parenting.
The
book gives instances from the Old Testament and from their own lives. It guides
parents to pray through the traps, to pray in the Truth, pray through the
struggles, pray for the victories, and praying for the Character of Christ. There
are 65 guided prayers and affirmative truth for parents to pray and reflect on.
Each prayer begins with a verse from the New Testament and then goes on to a
specific prayer and finally invites parents to express gratitude for something.
There
are some errors, mostly avoidable. On one page, they describe Generation X as the
one born between 1965 and 1976 and Millennials as those born between 1977 and
1995. Some pages later, they describe the Boomer Generation as the one born
between 1944 and 1964, Generation X as the one born between 1965 and 1979 and
then Millennials as those born between 1980 and 1994.
(I read this book through NetGalley.)
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