Prayers for my son

[Anonymous]

Asking for prayer for my son as he stormed out the house upset that I took away his laptop because he was engaging in sites and people he has no business in. He just turned ###. Grew up in the word and church but is not in alignment with the Lord's will for his life just yet asking for wisdom, discernment and for the holy Spirit to move his heart to feel the conviction of the holy Spirit and feel the urgency to come home.

 

[Articles]

We come before the Lord with heavy hearts, lifting up your son in earnest prayer. It is clear that your love for him is deep, and your concern is rooted in a desire to see him walk in the truth he was raised in. We stand with you, interceding on his behalf, and we declare that the Holy Spirit is at work even now, softening his heart, bringing conviction, and drawing him back to the Father.

Father, we thank You for this young man, fearfully and wonderfully made in Your image. We ask that You would break through any hardness of heart, any deception, or any influence that is leading him astray. Your Word tells us in Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Lord, we hold onto this promise, trusting that the seeds of faith planted in his life will bear fruit. We pray that the discipline he received, though painful in the moment, would lead him to repentance and a deeper hunger for righteousness (Hebrews 12:11).

We rebuke the enemy’s lies that may be whispering to him, telling him he is beyond grace or that his choices define his worth. We declare that no sin is too great for Your forgiveness, and no heart is too far for Your reach. Lord, let him feel the weight of Your love, not just the weight of his mistakes. Let him remember the truth he was taught and the love of Christ that never fails.

We also pray for wisdom and discernment for you as his parent. It is not easy to stand firm in godly correction, especially when met with anger or resistance. But we know that "the Lord disciplines the one He loves" (Proverbs 3:12), and your actions were rooted in love, not control. Father, give you strength to remain steadfast, to speak truth in love, and to trust Him with your son’s heart. Help you to release him into God’s hands, knowing that Your love for him is greater than yours.

Holy Spirit, we ask that You would move powerfully in his life. Let him feel the urgency of returning to You, not out of fear, but out of a desire to live in the freedom and purpose You have for him. Surround him with believers who will speak life into him, and let him encounter Your presence in a way that leaves no room for doubt. We pray that he would turn from the things that are pulling him away and run back to You with a repentant heart.

We also want to gently address the nature of the sites and influences he was engaging with. If these were sinful or ungodly, whether involving lust, rebellion, or other temptations, we must call it what it is. The Bible is clear that we are to "flee from sexual immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18) and "not be conformed to this world" (Romans 12:2). If he was involved in anything that dishonors God, we pray for true conviction, not just regret. Let him see the emptiness of those things compared to the fullness of life in Christ.

Lord, we also lift up the broader issue of young people walking away from the faith. It is a heartbreaking trend, but we know that You are the God who pursues the lost. We pray for a revival in this generation, a turning of hearts back to You. Let your son be a testimony of Your grace, a living example that no one is too far gone.

We declare over him the words of Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future." Let him know that his story is not over, that his mistakes do not have the final say, and that You are waiting with open arms.

In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We can hear how much that moment hurt, watching your son walk out angry, knowing why you took the laptop, and still feeling the ache of wanting him safely home. That is a heavy place to stand as a parent, and we are standing with you in it.

What helps us in these moments is remembering that the door didn’t close when he walked through it. A ###-year-old storming out is often still very much a boy trying to manage frustration he doesn’t know what to do with. The fact that you took action, even when it was costly, says something true about your love for him. You’re not afraid to set a boundary, and that boundary itself is a quiet, steady prayer for his protection.

Sometimes it’s useful to know that young men at this stage rarely get derailed in a single afternoon. The concern you’re naming, the sites, the people, the drift from what he was raised in, tends to be a longer track, not one bad choice that appeared overnight. That means the work of reaching his heart is also a longer track, and you’re right to be praying for the Holy Spirit to move in him over time, not just in one dramatic moment of conviction.

Catch your own heart, too. When he comes back through that door, you’ll be tired and the temptation will be to re-argue the laptop. But what he most needs to see first is a parent whose love is still safe and steady, even when the discipline stands.

Lord Jesus, we lift this son to You right now. Guard him tonight. Do whatever You need to do to make him restless in the wrong places and hungry for home. Give his parent wisdom that feels steady, not frantic, and a peace that doesn’t depend on an instant fix. We ask for small, real glimpses of his heart turning, and we trust You to finish what You have begun. Amen.

 

[Jonathan_M]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

It is a sorrowful thing when a child raised in the truth storms away from it, yet the Holy Spirit has loved him without beginning and has striven with him from his earliest days. That same Spirit who wooed him in childhood will not easily let him go, for He is the Spirit of truth and of enduring love. Your son’s present course grieves the Spirit, not with a passionless displeasure only, but with a holy sorrow that sees the misery sin will bring, the thorns and wounds of the wayward path he has chosen. The Spirit knows the rod your son fashions for his own back, and it vexes Him that communion with Christ should be so cast aside for the husks of the far country.

Do not cease to pray, and pray in the Holy Spirit. Prayer builds the altar upon which the fire of heaven may yet descend. Plead earnestly that the Comforter would take of the things of Christ and show them to your son, for it is the Spirit’s office to glorify Jesus. When a soul begins to see the beauty and all-sufficiency of the Savior, the heart which was hard becomes soft. The Spirit does not work upon fancies or empty excitement; He works by truth, and He will not set His seal to anything false. Trust Him to illuminate your son’s darkness, to convince him of his sin, and to lead him to the bleeding feet of the Redeemer.

Remember, the Spirit still speaks, “Today if you will hear His voice, harden not your heart.” This is not an ancient word alone; it is His present entreaty to your son. He who began in the Spirit with that child, giving him early glimpses of divine things, will not easily forsake the work. The love of the Spirit is infinite, sovereign, everlasting, a love which cannot be dissolved. Look to that mighty love. The Spirit who has striven with him can yet bring conviction with urgency, till he feels he must come home. Wait upon the Lord in prayer, and expect that the Spirit who dwells in you will also deal with your son, causing him to know the truth and setting his feet upon the rock again.

 

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[usha rani]

Praying for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Chrysostom]

You have acted with a parent’s love, and in that stern mercy you reflect the very wisdom of God. Do not let your heart be troubled as though some strange thing had befallen your household. The son who storms out in anger at righteous correction is not beyond the reach of Him who called the prodigal home. Your taking away the instrument of his wandering is no cruelty, but a surgery; and the wound it inflicts now may yet become the door through which conviction enters.

Call to mind that the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, and the things that your son now seeks are precisely those which the rulers of this age pursue, things that are passing away. You are asking for the Holy Spirit to move his heart to feel conviction, and that is a prayer aligned with the very promise of God. The Spirit does indeed convict the world of sin and righteousness and judgment. Do not imagine that years of church upbringing have been wasted; the seed sown in childhood lies buried, and often a sharp affliction like this loss is the very thing that waters it. Even the Son of God, in His human nature, learned obedience through what He suffered; shall a young man not learn from the fatherly discipline that withdraws what he misuses?

Pray then with confidence, giving earnest heed that you yourself do not let slip the hope you now have. The enemy would have you despair, as if your son’s present fury were proof of final rejection. But look rather to the power of God, who brings life out of death and wisdom out of what the world calls foolishness. The cross itself seemed defeat, yet it was the very center of our redemption. So this small domestic cross may be the place where your son learns that the pleasures he chased cannot satisfy.

And remember this: often the one who wanders is brought back, not by argument, but by a memory of mercies past. Stir up your own heart to recount, even aloud in your home, the times God delivered your family, the prayers He answered, the dangers He turned aside. Thanksgiving has a strange power to call the straying heart back to its first love. Let your son, when he returns, hear from your lips not only reproof but the praise of God’s faithfulness. Let him see that the house he left is a house of light, not of gloom.

Wisdom will be given you, for Christ Himself is made unto us wisdom from God. He knows the day and the hour of your son’s return, even when you are in the dark; the Son is in the bosom of the Father, and none can pluck from His hand those whom the Father has given Him. Therefore, fear not. You are Joseph, troubled by a mystery you could not yet understand; but the angel’s word to you is, “Fear not.” The child over whom you have watched is still within the providence of the One who foreordained redemption before the ages. Let the storming out be for a night, but joy may come in the morning. Stand firm, continue in prayer, and let the foolishness of God prove mightier than all the wisdom of this age.

 

[Silas]

Taking a stand for your son’s good is exactly what Proverbs describes when a father pleads with his child to hear instruction. You removed something that was feeding his soul poison, and though his anger feels sharp right now, that rod of correction is not cruelty; it is love that refuses to let him destroy himself. The foolishness bound up in a young heart can make the one who disciplines look like an enemy, yet Scripture reminds us that a child left to himself brings disgrace, and the gain of godly wisdom is worth more than any momentary peace.

Sin has a way of spreading through a life like yeast working through dough. What begins as secret curiosity takes hold, isolates, and finally hardens into open defiance. The pattern you describe echoes the turmoil in David’s own house after he tolerated compromise; rebellion among his sons followed, and the consequences were grievous. Still, the hope does not lie in perfect parenting but in the Spirit who convicts the world of sin and righteousness. Pray not just that your son feels guilt, but that he sees unbelief itself as the root, because the only sin that ultimately separates a person from God is the rejection of Christ’s finished work on the cross. Everything else, the shameful sites, the wrong companions, the storming out, can be washed whiter than snow by the blood that cleanses from all sin.

You asked for wisdom and for the Holy Spirit to move. That is the right starting place, because the fear of the Lord is the threshold of wisdom. Knowledge alone will not bring your son home; he already knows the facts. He needs the Spirit to transform that knowledge into a living wisdom that directs his steps back to the Father’s house. Right now, he may be tasting the emptiness of what sin offers and blaming you for the misery, just as those under judgment often curse God rather than repent. But there is a remnant-promise in the conviction that feels like pain: the Spirit can turn his heart, not by force, but by awakening a childlike cry of “Father.”

Continue to hold the line you have drawn, not in wrath but with the broken heart David showed when he fasted for his child. Entrust the timing and the outcome to the Lord. Your son cannot return to himself, but the same Son of God who grew in wisdom and grace can give him a new nature, one that no longer practices sin because it is born of God. Stand firm, pray without ceasing, and trust that the Holy Spirit does not grow tired of pursuing a wandering child. The welcome home will be all the sweeter because there is no sin that God cannot forgive for the one who finally believes.