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.
By faith, Moses
58-0720M §33
If there is troubles in the hand... If there's troubles in the land, if there's troubles in the church, if there's troubles in the home, no matter where it is, make your choice, "By faith "I'll serve God. I'll humble my heart in His presence. I'll take the way with God's children. I see them despised, and rejected, and drove out, and made fun of, but I'll still take my post of duty. I'll stay right by them, and when they cry, I'll cry with them. And when they're sorrow, I shall sorrow with them. The way they live,...
By faith, Moses
58-0720M §24
...he doors of this little Tabernacle (that's a interdenominational institution, with no law but love, no book but the Bible, and no creed but Christ), I've tried to look upon God's children and upon the rejected, as being God's chosen and elected people. I don't ask them if they belong to the Branham Tabernacle. I don't ask them if they're Methodist, or if they're Presbyterians, or if they are Pentecostals, or Nazarenes, or Pilgrim Holiness. I just want to look upon them as the people of God, and seeing their doings,...
The unveiling of God
64-0614M §103
But there was the Mighty God standing in full view, the mercy seat. He died when his own children saying... His own children there, saying, "We won't have Him! Away with Him!" Spit on Him. A type, way back, when David was leaving the temple, rejected king. Went down through the street, and a little, old crippled-up fellow crawling along, never did like him, he called him "old hypocrite" or something, spit right in his face. And that guard pulled a sword, said, "I'll let that dog's head stay on him, spit on my king?...
What is the Holy Ghost?
59-1216 §28
Now, notice, but in this, the Holy Ghost is a sign ... I mean, and the Holy Ghost is a seal. It's a sign that God gave to His chosen children. To reject it is to be cut from the people; and to receive it is to be finished with the world and all the things of the world, and to be a product that God has put a seal of approval on. I used to work on the railroad out here with Harry Waterberry. And we would go down to load a car. My brother, "Doc," standing back there, helps load cars. When a car is being loaded, they g...
The Rejected King
60-0515M §51
But let me say to the people of God and to you children, that you might know that God never leaves you without a witness: Not knowing to Saul---Saul knew nothing about it---but God had a little David back over behind the hill somewhere that wasn't feeding sheep on ecclesiastical weeds. He was leading them beside still waters and in green pastures! He was mindful of his father's sheep, and if something run in, an enemy, to grab one of his father's sheep, he knew the power of God to deliver that sheep! God's still go...