Praying When Your Child's Choices Break Your Heart

June 04, 2025

00:00 12:14

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When your child makes destructive choices, it can feel like your prayers are hitting a wall. In this episode, Rachel explores how to pray persistently for children who seem stuck in cycles of poor decisions. Drawing from the story of Eliezer, Abraham's servant, you'll discover how to shift from praying only for your child to change to praying for divine direction in your parenting responses.

What You'll Learn:

How to pray for wisdom about when to speak up and when to stay silent with your struggling child
Why asking God for specific guidance (like Eliezer did) can transform your approach to parenting challenges
How to balance consequences with grace when your child faces the results of their choices
Practical ways to pray expectantly for direction while releasing control of outcomes

Whether you're dealing with a teenager making risky choices or an adult child whose decisions break your heart, this episode offers hope and practical prayer strategies for the journey.

Perfect for parents who feel overwhelmed, discouraged, or uncertain about how to love their children well through difficult seasons.

RESOURCES

You're invited to the June Desperate Prayers book club, meeting virtually on Zoom every Monday in June, 7pm, Eastern. Details HERE.

Mentioned: Monthly Bible reading challenge and Untangling Prayer episode, Leaning on God for New Direction

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Meet Your Host

Rachel Wojo is an author, entrepreneur, public speaker, and podcaster. The ideal desperate pray-er to shed light on asking God questions, Rachel’s journey includes losing her mother to leukemia, her adult special needs daughter to a rare neurologically-degenerative disease, and her father to illness. As an entrepreneur living in Columbus, Ohio, she self-started and developed a blog to business platform over the last decade. She hosts Bible reading challenges on her popular blog, rachelwojo.com, which rallies readers of all ages to search God’s Word for solutions to life’s problems. Her biblical approach and life circumstances influence women to find strength and hope in everyday situations.

Rachel is the author of One More Step: Finding Strength When You Feel Like Giving Up. She is a public speaker and contributor to well-known faith-based publications for many companies. Mostly, Rachel is crazy in love with Matt, mom to six on earth and two in heaven.