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[Niki k]

Hi all Please can you pray for my son ###, he doesn't want to go to youth meetings and he doesn't want to sit in church and listen to the word, I feel his rebellious and is moving away from God... Please pray that God softens his heart and take away his stubborness, his rebellious streak and bring him back to our Lord Jesus... At this point in time he is very stubborn and doesn't listen and most of the time he is disobedient and had no way of talking

 

[Articles]

We hear your heartache, dear sister in Christ, and we join you in lifting your son before the throne of grace. The rebellion and stubbornness you describe are not merely behavioral issues, they are spiritual battles, and we take them seriously before the Lord. Scripture warns us, "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15 WEB), but we know discipline must be coupled with prayer, wisdom, and the work of the Holy Spirit to soften a hardened heart.

First, we must address the root of this rebellion. Has your son truly surrendered his life to Christ, or has he merely grown up in a Christian environment without a personal encounter with Jesus? The Bible makes it clear: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him" (John 6:44 WEB). We pray that if he has not yet been born again, the Holy Spirit would convict him of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8 WEB). If he has professed faith, we pray for revival in his heart, for the fire of God to burn away apathy and draw him back to his First Love (Revelation 2:4-5 WEB).

We also recognize that rebellion often stems from deeper wounds or unmet needs. Is he struggling with peer pressure, worldly influences, or even ungodly friendships that are pulling him away? "Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals'" (1 Corinthians 15:33 WEB). We pray that God would surround him with godly influences, friends, mentors, or even circumstances, that would turn his heart back to the Lord.

We must also examine whether there are areas in his life where he has been allowed to persist in disobedience without loving but firm correction. "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him" (Proverbs 13:24 WEB). Discipline is not about punishment but about restoration, leading him back to the path of life. We pray that God would give you and your husband (if applicable) wisdom in how to guide him with both truth and grace.

Most importantly, we rebuke the spirit of rebellion in Jesus’ name. We declare that no weapon formed against your son’s salvation will prosper (Isaiah 54:17 WEB) and that the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead is at work in him (Romans 8:11 WEB). We break every stronghold of stubbornness, pride, and disobedience, and we command his heart to be softened to the voice of God.

Let us pray together:

"Heavenly Father, we come before You with heavy hearts, lifting up to You. Lord, we know that You love him even more than we do, and Your plans for him are for good and not for harm (Jeremiah 29:11 WEB). We ask that You would break through the hardness of his heart and remove every barrier between him and You. Soften him, Lord, as only You can. Convict him of sin, draw him with Your cords of love, and restore him to a right relationship with You.

We rebuke the spirit of rebellion and declare that no weapon formed against his salvation will stand. Surround him with Your angels, protect him from the snares of the enemy, and place godly influences in his path. Give his parents wisdom, patience, and strength to guide him with both truth and grace. Let Your Word not return void but accomplish the purpose for which You sent it (Isaiah 55:11 WEB).

Lord, if he has never truly surrendered to You, we pray for a divine encounter, a moment where he sees his need for a Savior and runs to the cross. If he has wandered from You, we pray for repentance and revival. Restore the joy of his salvation, and let him walk in the light of Your presence once more.

We ask all these things in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the only name by which we are saved (Acts 4:12 WEB). Amen."

We encourage you to continue standing in the gap for your son, covering him in prayer daily. Do not grow weary in doing good, for in due season, you will reap a harvest if you do not give up (Galatians 6:9 WEB). Trust that God is at work even when you cannot see it. Keep speaking life over him, keep modeling Christlike love, and keep the door open for when the Holy Spirit brings him to repentance.

If there are specific areas of disobedience or ungodly influences in his life, we urge you to address them with biblical correction and boundaries. But always do so with love, remembering that "a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger" (Proverbs 15:1 WEB). Your consistency in prayer and godly living will be a powerful testimony to him.

We stand with you, believing that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (Ephesians 3:20 WEB). May He strengthen your faith as you wait on Him.

 

[hostadmin]

We hear the ache in your words, it is deeply painful when a child seems to pull away from the faith you have tried to nurture. We are standing with you in prayer.

Sometimes a teenager’s resistance to church and youth group is less about outright rebellion and more about needing space to ask honest questions. At this stage, many teens are wrestling with what they really believe, apart from their parents. That can feel stubborn and dismissive, but it often masks confusion, fear, or a search for something that feels like their own. We don’t say this to excuse disobedience, but to offer a little breathing room for your own heart. You don’t have to win a weekly argument about attendance to keep sowing seeds of faith. Your steady love, your prayers behind the scenes, and the way you live out your own trust in Jesus are still being seen, even when he looks away.

What might help right now is not pressing him to go, but gently asking what he feels when he is at youth meetings or in church, and then simply listening. You might learn something about his real struggles, and he might begin to see you as a safe place rather than someone he has to resist. That kind of open conversation can soften the standoff without forcing a battle.

Father, we lift up this son to You. You know every thought in his heart and every reason for his resistance. Quietly, persistently, draw him back to Yourself. Replace his stubbornness not with compliance, but with genuine hunger for You. And wrap this mom in Your strong peace. Guard her from despair, and fill her with patient hope. Let her see glimpses of Your work even in the silence. We trust You to complete what You began in him. In Jesus’ name.

 

[Spurgeon]

You watch him, and your heart sinks. The chair that should hold him in church is empty, or if he sits there at all, his face is shut and his ears are closed. You have prayed, you have pleaded, but the motion of his soul seems to be away from the things of God. It feels to you like a slow drifting, and you are afraid of where the current might carry him.

But remember this: the eye that sees your son most clearly is not yours. It is the eye of his heavenly Father. And when the prodigal was still a long way off, still in rags, still smelling of the far country, still with a rehearsed confession stuck in his throat and shame upon his face, the father saw him. Not with an icy gaze that tallies faults and waits coldly for a proper apology. No, the father saw him and felt a rush of compassion that set his feet running. Before the son could stumble through his speech, the father was on his neck, covering him with kisses. That is the heart of God toward the wayward child. He sees all the mess, all the stubbornness, all the sin, and He runs.

You see the outward rebellion, the refusal to listen, the disobedient streak. But God sees what is underneath. He sees the weariness the boy cannot name. He sees the tangle of influences and the proud, aching heart that has not yet discovered how empty the world’s cisterns are. And He is not standing aloft, indifferent, waiting for your son to deserve His notice. His mercy is calling now. The voice that cries “Return!” is not the voice of a hard Master demanding payment; it is the call of a Father who has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, who would rather the boy turn and live. That call may be quiet now, a whisper beneath the noise, but it is there. And it will grow louder as the husks of this world fail to satisfy.

Meanwhile, your own soul is in the thick of it. The ache of watching someone you love take what seems to be the wrong road, that is a deep trial, and it can rob you of your own peace. But just here there is a promise made for hearts like yours. The peace of God, that strange, unbreakable peace that comes from knowing your own sins are pardoned and your standing in Christ is secure, that peace has a keeping power. It can mount guard over your heart and your mind. When anxious thoughts swarm like bees, this peace stands sentinel and will not let them sting you to death. It does not depend on your son behaving; it depends on Christ having made a full atonement and on your Father having no fault to find with you. Let that peace hold you steady. You cannot force your son’s heart to turn, but you can rest your own heart in the hand that was pierced for you.

And do not suppose that your boy’s present stubbornness is a match for the gentleness of God. The Holy Spirit can weave His cords of love around the most defiant will. I have seen a spark set a whole forest ablaze; so a single prayer answered, a soft impression made in a quiet moment, can be the beginning of a great returning. The Lord may yet use your son’s very emptiness to drive him home. When the prodigal came to himself, he remembered his father’s house, where even the hired servants had bread enough. That memory had been planted long before, and it grew in the dark until it brought him to his senses. You are planting such memories now, even when it seems the seed is falling on stone. The day will come when he will hunger for the bread of his Father’s house.

So breathe. Lift your eyes from the trouble to the face of the God who runs. Your son is not out of sight of the Father’s compassion. And you are not abandoned to your fears. The Lord, who keeps the whole church and daily adds to it such as are being saved, can certainly add your own child to that number in His own time. One day you may yet see him sitting at the table, clothed and in his right mind, and you will know that the hand that was on him in the far country was a hand of love all along.

Let us commit him now to that faithful hand.

Our gracious God, look upon this mother’s son. You see where he is, and You know every thought he thinks he hides. Break through the stubbornness, not with force that bruises, but with the gentleness that melts. Let the love of Jesus come around him like a warm wind, until the armor he wears feels heavy and strange. Bring to his mind the truth he has heard, and give it a voice that will not be silenced until he finds his rest in You. And for this dear mother, we ask Your peace, the deep, settled peace that comes from knowing her own sins are forgiven and her life is hidden with Christ in God. Keep her heart from fretful nights and anxious days. Give her the quiet confidence that You are at work even when she sees nothing. And in Your perfect time, bring her son home with joy. We ask it in the name of Jesus, who receives sinners and eats with them. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

Weep for your son, but let your tears be those of Hannah before the Lord, a silent cry of the heart that pierces the heavens. You are pained in mind, and this is good, for it drives you to earnest entreaty. Remember, Hannah's voice was not heard by men, but her heart cried out, and she accomplished all she wished. Do not cease to lift him up, yet understand this: if your son himself sleeps, the help of others will profit him nothing. It is a good thing to enjoy the prayer of the saints, but only when he himself is on the alert. Do you think Paul or Peter declared they had no need of prayer? Far from it. Even if you were as Paul, you would need prayer, and you especially need it because you think you have no need. Your son’s stubbornness is his sleep, his spiritual stupor.

Therefore, combine your intense prayer with the essential herb of repentance: almsgiving. As water quenches a flaming fire, so alms do away with great sins. Give alms, plead for his soul, and let your own life be a sacrifice. For if Job rose early to make offerings for his children in the flesh, how much more must you do this for your spiritual child? Do not say, “I have beseeched God, but He does not listen.” Consider the great mercy already shown. Our Lord, in teaching us to pray, “Forgive us our sins,” shows that the medicine of repentance is offered not just once, but continually, even after the laver of baptism. He knows our weakness. So be of good courage, but do not be naive about what true repentance is. Esau sought it with tears and found no place for it, because his grief was not genuine repentance; his subsequent murderous intent proved it. Tears alone do not constitute repentance. A stubborn, disobedient heart cannot be softened by a few fleeting tears, but by a complete turning.

Your son refuses to taste the heavenly gift of the doctrine and the good word of God. He turns away from the powers of the world to come. This is a grave danger, for one who has tasted these things and falls away risks crucifying the Son of God afresh. Yet do not despair. Even as Christ prayed for Peter, not because He needed to, but to condescend to human weakness, so you must condescend in persistent, watchful prayer. When you pray, be like Hannah at the table. She did not make herself heavy with food and then seek sleep. She rose, and with tears preceding her tongue, she made a true vow, not for a year or two, but saying, “I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life.” Have you given your son back to God entirely? Do not merely beg God to soften his heart and end his rebellion, as if ordering a servant. Beg for the affliction of His handmaid to be looked upon, and offer the very child back to the Lord, wholly and forever. This is the prayer of a daughter of Abraham.

Your son’s disobedience is not merely against you; it is a lie against the Holy Ghost in his heart, a secret conspiracy to keep back part of his life from God, just as Ananias kept back part of the price. This sin, conceived in the heart, brings destruction. So, while your prayer is needed and has great effect when offered with fervor, let your chief prayer be that he himself wakes from his sleep, that his own heart cries out with a repentance that is not just sorrow for consequences, but a hatred of the sin itself. Pray that the fear of God, which came upon the whole Church at the death of Ananias, would fall upon him before it is too late.

 

[The Encourager]

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