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The same exact thing happened to my brother. God loves all his children and we all make wrong decisions but we learn valuable lessons from them too. He knows you try your very best to keep your son interested and trusting in God 
My brother, my father, and I went to Mass every Sunday my whole life and then when he was 17 or 18 he called it quits. He said he never believed and didn't see the point in going. This broke my dad's heart... Well this was 5 or 6 years ago now and seeing my brother living on his own and overcoming real world obstacles and such, this has made him more mature in a few ways. He questions things a lot more and wants to understand which before, he never cared to. My dad tried to encourage him when he could to go back to Church but it didn't always work. Then one day my brother went to Mass all on his own. It helped him to clear his mind and hear the encouraging Word of God. He just felt like he needed this. I think my brother still believes something at least and it's a start. God knows my brother is a good person still. He hears my family's prayers for him too! He also feels how much my dad cares and worries but he puts him at ease. My dad knows too that God is just taking my brother on a journey of life lessons. I think that maybe your son just might need a little time too. Maybe not as much as 5 or 6 years but just a little time. When he has problems with anything you can discreetly relate his problems to a lesson from the Bible. It won't sound like preaching but the message with get across. I'll pray for your son and family! God bless!
My brother, my father, and I went to Mass every Sunday my whole life and then when he was 17 or 18 he called it quits. He said he never believed and didn't see the point in going. This broke my dad's heart... Well this was 5 or 6 years ago now and seeing my brother living on his own and overcoming real world obstacles and such, this has made him more mature in a few ways. He questions things a lot more and wants to understand which before, he never cared to. My dad tried to encourage him when he could to go back to Church but it didn't always work. Then one day my brother went to Mass all on his own. It helped him to clear his mind and hear the encouraging Word of God. He just felt like he needed this. I think my brother still believes something at least and it's a start. God knows my brother is a good person still. He hears my family's prayers for him too! He also feels how much my dad cares and worries but he puts him at ease. My dad knows too that God is just taking my brother on a journey of life lessons. I think that maybe your son just might need a little time too. Maybe not as much as 5 or 6 years but just a little time. When he has problems with anything you can discreetly relate his problems to a lesson from the Bible. It won't sound like preaching but the message with get across. I'll pray for your son and family! God bless!
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You are not a complete failure....never!! how can you be? Did Christ fail at the cross? Did he not do enough for us?
you have raised your children, the best you could. You are not the sustainer or the creator of your children's, anyone's faith! That's God.
I pray you will know these truths. I pray you will live the freedom that Christ gives you, you will live in His grace & glory you are the Kings son! I pray you will love your family, knowing that ALL is in His hands. God hears you, knows your pain but, you need to live in the victory, I pray you will live a victorious life, regardless of your circumstances, through Jesus Christ our Lord. He loves you so much, God Bless you, <><
you have raised your children, the best you could. You are not the sustainer or the creator of your children's, anyone's faith! That's God.
I pray you will know these truths. I pray you will live the freedom that Christ gives you, you will live in His grace & glory
you are the Kings son! I pray you will love your family, knowing that ALL is in His hands. God hears you, knows your pain but, you need to live in the victory, I pray you will live a victorious life, regardless of your circumstances, through Jesus Christ our Lord. He loves you so much, God Bless you, <><
Remember that salvation comes from God. You have done your best to bring up your son to fear and love God. I have two children serving the Lord, and two not. Except the two that are not, come closer all the time, when I converse with them. My second son gave me permission to take my granddaughter to church, which he would not let me do before.
My grandmother was a Christian, and my father walked away from God a long, long time ago. Was my grandmother a failure? No - she kept praying for all her children and grandchildren, every day.
She prayed for my father till she died in 1980, which was the year I got saved. Then I started praying for my father. I prayed for 31 years for him to get saved. When he got sick with congestive heart failure, he was suddenly open to the gospel and my husband and I shared with him and he prayed to receive Christ. That is probably over 60 years of prayer for him. He became a vibrant witness in the hospital to patients and staff. I read the Bible to him and prayed daily. And his memorial was about him being saved, and not a person in the church knew God.
Oh yes, and a few weeks ago I was at a family gathering, in the most atheist family of my grandmother's children. Turns out the youngest daughter and her husband are Christians. I was so delighted to learn of another of my grandmother's grandchildren who were prayed into the Kingdom of God!
So keep praying for your family, and let God reap the harvest. Praying for you not to be discouraged, and to remember that God is in control, and your pleas for your family will not go unheard.
My grandmother was a Christian, and my father walked away from God a long, long time ago. Was my grandmother a failure? No - she kept praying for all her children and grandchildren, every day.
She prayed for my father till she died in 1980, which was the year I got saved. Then I started praying for my father. I prayed for 31 years for him to get saved. When he got sick with congestive heart failure, he was suddenly open to the gospel and my husband and I shared with him and he prayed to receive Christ. That is probably over 60 years of prayer for him. He became a vibrant witness in the hospital to patients and staff. I read the Bible to him and prayed daily. And his memorial was about him being saved, and not a person in the church knew God.
Oh yes, and a few weeks ago I was at a family gathering, in the most atheist family of my grandmother's children. Turns out the youngest daughter and her husband are Christians. I was so delighted to learn of another of my grandmother's grandchildren who were prayed into the Kingdom of God!
So keep praying for your family, and let God reap the harvest. Praying for you not to be discouraged, and to remember that God is in control, and your pleas for your family will not go unheard.
S
Lord I pray that you give this man the strength he needs to fight this battle with his son, I pray that you give him the wisdom and discernment that he needs for the task ahead with his son oh Father. I pray you give him the heart to endure all that he is going through and that you strengthen him with your peace and gift him with your joy that you give to your children that nothing of this world can take away. I pray and ask all on your beautiful name, my Jesus amen.
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KEEP strong in Him. You not knowing what to do and saying, Lord, I am a failure is good, not the 'failure' word , because God does not MAKE failures But, your KNOWING that you can only SUCCEED with Him is good. YOu are well on your way, I pray His strength is in you and keeps you going forth, in Him. I am praying for your son, for you, for your whole people in your life, that God will make Himself known, be BOLD for Him, the Lord leads, all our lives are personal from Christ, who LIVES in us, He made us, He wants GREAT things for you, fabulous things, just give Him the glory in all you say and do and remember Him and His great way for you is before you. Read His Word all the time ,not just daily. God bless you and keep on being a FATHER to your son and make your life what is perfect, holy, acceptable to Christ and be open and honest to your son about everything of the past, that may have him at odds with you. I don't know what. Just follow Him, the Lord is your and our and everyone's shepherd, He is the Good Shepherd, God is good, He will keep you. WANT nothing but to serve Him , live for Him, I like, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, think it is, 'Pray without ceasing,'
REjoice, rejoice, and, again, I say, rejoice, in our suffering we are made stronger by Him, for as Christ suffered we are going to suffer too, we should want too, blessed are the persecuted, Matt. 5 tells us in the beatitudes. Peter, in his epistle, tells us about suffering for Christ too, so, be strong and He will get you through, cast your cares upon Him , and keep on TRUDGING, He will sate your weariness completely as we follow Him
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But, your KNOWING that you can only SUCCEED with Him is good. YOu are well on your way, I pray His strength is in you and keeps you going forth, in Him. I am praying for your son, for you, for your whole people in your life, that God will make Himself known, be BOLD for Him, the Lord leads, all our lives are personal from Christ, who LIVES in us, He made us, He wants GREAT things for you, fabulous things, just give Him the glory in all you say and do and remember Him and His great way for you is before you. Read His Word all the time ,not just daily. God bless you and keep on being a FATHER to your son and make your life what is perfect, holy, acceptable to Christ and be open and honest to your son about everything of the past, that may have him at odds with you. I don't know what. Just follow Him, the Lord is your and our and everyone's shepherd, He is the Good Shepherd, God is good, He will keep you. WANT nothing but to serve Him , live for Him, I like, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, think it is, 'Pray without ceasing,' REjoice, rejoice, and, again, I say, rejoice, in our suffering we are made stronger by Him, for as Christ suffered we are going to suffer too, we should want too, blessed are the persecuted, Matt. 5 tells us in the beatitudes. Peter, in his epistle, tells us about suffering for Christ too, so, be strong and He will get you through, cast your cares upon Him , and keep on TRUDGING, He will sate your weariness completely as we follow Him
Read Psalms 23 now