That doesn't mean that our children and their families have always had an easy road to travel. Nor have we. We continue praying for each other and our children because God has dropped little tokens along the way to mark his answers.
Sometimes the answers are big and immediate, but more often they are gradual or only appear long after we first prayed for the problem or the issue.
I mention this because I am aware that some parents in our church and in other churches are heartbroken because their children seem to have wandered away from their faith in Jesus. These are good parents, people who have a strong faith in God. They wonder if their children will ever come back to the Lord.
I believe God wants people at any age - young or old - to return to his embrace just as in the story of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-31. He yearns to welcome them home.
I also believe that prayer is the key to unlocking the power of God in these situations. I really like the way the New Living Translation translates 1 John 5:14-15:
"And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for."
There is no doubt that asking God to bring wandering children home pleases the Lord.
The power of persistent prayer for children was brought home to me in the following video by Sammy Tippit:
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