Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter: Hope, Help & Encouragement for Hurting Parents

by Janet Thompson

Offering hope, help, and encouragement to hurting parents of prodigal daughters, author Janet Thompson shares out of her own experience as a prodigal daughter and as the mother of a prodigal daughter. And the key to the help she offers is prayer .

While you, as a hurting mom or dad, may know that you need to pray for your daughter, this walk-along-beside-you book will take you gently by the hand and show you how . In it you will find candid stories of other parents of prodigals -- and even the stories of prodigals themselves.

Don't wait until you have a prodigal situation. Any parent will benefit from this book's incredible insights, prayers, and stories. Praying for Your Prodigal Daughter is about hope, help, and support from others who have walked a similar road.

Chapter Topics Include

• Setting Boundaries • Surviving in Marriage • Resolving Conflict

• Making it All About Her • What Did We Do to Cause This?

Genres: Christian, Prayer, Christian Living

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[NancyInWI · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just what the doctor ordered. I've been in agony for several years with a daughter who has turned her back on just about everything we've taught her about what is good and right. She has always danced to a different drummer. When she lived at home, it was hell...she had us all at each other's throats and stressed out to the max. She went away to college and our home life became calm again, but it did not take away the constant worry. This book helped me to learn to leave it in God's hands, because only he can bring her back and on HIS time. I just have to keep praying and being patient.
(and this was not an ebook...paperback, but there were no other options)

[Jeannee Waseck · Rating 5 out of 5]

This helped me through the megapain of having a prodigal

[Priscilla Bouvier · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book is needlessly repetitive with the same things reiterates over and over. It may be helpful to some parents of a rebellious daughter but I found the author's suggestions on how to pray, even detailing what words to say in those prayers, offensive, and anything but personal. She suggests praying scriptural verses to the God who wrote them, as if He needs to hear his own words. How much better it is for the parent with the aching heart to talk God in his/her own words, thanking Him for His tender mercies and asking for personal inspiration and strength for him/herself and for a softening of heart for the daughter. Her suggested prayers are little more than vain repetitions, and the Lord himself tells us what He thinks of that.....

[Evelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Praying Scripture.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting book.

[Nancy Kendall]

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