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.
Israel and the Church: Israel in Egypt
53-0325 §108
Notice. How perfect that Jesus, rejected of the Jews, sent back the Holy Spirit, and they laughed at them and made fun of them, and said, "They're drunk on new wine." Is that right? And Jesus said, "You can blaspheme Me, and get by with it; but if you speak one word against the Holy Ghost, it'll never be forgiven you." And those Jews come up there, and said, "Well, those men are full of new wine, ha, ha, ha," and made fun of them. And not no more than thirty years, or better, from then, till Titus besieged the wall...
Three kinds of believers
63-1124E §54
Notice, Satan dwells in beauty. What did he try to do in the beginning? make a more beautiful kingdom than Michael's was. Moved over in the north, and took two-thirds of the angels with him. See, whose son that was then had that nature in him? Satan's son. Certainly it was. Now, he built the altar, and he knelt down and he worshipped. He went through everything that Abel did. But Abel knew that it wasn't that. It was blood that took them out. He knew that that was it; it was the sex blood. So he took a little anima...
Thy House
61-0808 §77
Now, just in my mind, see, about what this person is if they reject Christ. It's just ... you might look it up for your own self in the dictionary, because it's not something... I wouldn't speak it out right out here now, but you look it up, you'll see what it means. In other words, there's two or three places in the Scripture I can refer you to things like that. Like ... in other words, like King Nebuchadnezzar said any man that wouldn't bow down to this So-and-so, under Daniel's God, and everything, let his house...
The Oddball
64-0614E §28
...cene, to the religious denominations of that day he was a nut. He had the opportunity to become a priest, to follow his father's footsteps. But he refused to do it, because God had kept him out of those creeds and denominations, because his job was too important. He was to announce the Messiah coming. And when he had nothing to do with neither Pharisee, Sadducee, or whatever it was, he rejected the whole group of them, and said, "don't you begin to say, 'We have Abraham to our father, for I say that God's able of t...
Daniel 9: Daniel's Seventy Weeks
61-0806 §77
Now, we find out in this age... There's the star as we have there. We have a star messenger; we have a person, a message that goes forth to the age; a people to reject it, a people to receive it. And the messenger of this age was to come in the power of Elias. That's right! And he was to restore the faith of the children back to the fathers, bring the Pentecostal remnant that's left back to the true apostolic faith. Now, the true apostolic faith, if you'll read it in the book of Acts, you'll find that there was nev...