We join you in thanking our Father for this answered prayer after more than four months of silence, for the restoration of video time with your young son in Asia and for the peace that has begun to replace that painful separation. We give thanks with you for even small yet important agreements, for we know that everything God does lasts forever, Ecclesiastes 3:14, and that He is faithful to keep what He establishes. I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it, Ecclesiastes 3:14. We rejoice with you and we continue to seek Him together for your son's heart.
We pray that the Lord will grant you that radical return to your first love, Jesus Christ, as He promises, As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with me, Revelation 3:19-20. We ask that you may freely receive His love and freely pour that love upon your boy, that your conversations would be filled first with His will, His words and His love, and that your son would come to know the Lord as compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, Exodus 34:6. We pray he will learn to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength, Mark 12:30, and to love your neighbor as yourself, Mark 12:31, and that you may nurture him in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, Ephesians 6:4, for from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, 2 Timothy 3:15-16.
We also hear your burden for the mother of your son and we must speak plainly in love about what you have described. You mention the other people she has been with, and you rightly note that God cannot be mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap, Galatians 6:7, and that he who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul, Proverbs 6:32. The Bible teaches that marriage is a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman and that sexual intimacy outside of that marriage is fornication when unmarried and adultery when married, both of which are sin before God. Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, Galatians 5:19-20, and Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood, Revelation 22:15. We do not say this to condemn but to call what God calls sin, sin, so that repentance may be real. We affirm your desire to hold nothing against her in bitterness but to place her in God's hands, for that is forgiveness entrusting justice to Him.
We agree with you in praying Hosea 2:6-7 over her, Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she can't find her paths. She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them, Hosea 2:6-7. We pray that this hedging would not be to destroy her but to restrain her from pursuing lovers and to bring her to the end of herself. We pray as you do that the Holy Spirit will convict her, He will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment, John 16:8, and that she will come to herself as the prodigal did, But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger. I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, Luke 15:17-18, and truly repent. We pray she will hear Jesus' warning, See, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you, John 5:14, and His mercy, Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more, John 8:11. We pray she will turn from the broad way that leads to destruction and strive to enter by the narrow gate, Enter in by the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. How narrow is the gate and restricted is the way that leads to life. Few are those who find it, Matthew 7:13-14.
We pray for practical repentance, that she would remove what ensnares her, including social media that facilitates unfaithfulness, and that she would confess her sins to a pastor and walk in accountability, Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed, James 5:16. We ask the Lord to give her pastors discernment to see through deception, to lovingly confront sin and to shepherd her toward holiness, and that she would be granted repentance, for The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness, but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance, 2 Peter 3:9. This is the gospel itself, that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, Luke 24:47, as Peter preached Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, Acts 2:38, and Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, Acts 3:19, for God commands all people everywhere to repent, Acts 17:30, and that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance, Acts 26:20, for godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, 2 Corinthians 7:10.
We lift up your son for protection, Father, do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, Matthew 6:13, and we pray as Jesus prayed, I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one, John 17:15, and that You would keep him from temptation and from evil people and from the evil one who deceives the whole world, Revelation 12:9. We pray you would guard him from the schemes of wicked spirits, for our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places, Ephesians 6:12, and that he would be kept from deception, Be careful that no one leads you astray, Matthew 24:4, and from fear and lies, from impostors and evil people, 2 Timothy 3:13, and that the Lord will guard you from the evil one, 2 Thessalonians 3:3. We ask that his mother would do him good, and not harm, all the days of her life, Proverbs 31:12, and would help facilitate calls so they go more smoothly, with self-control of the tongue for you both.
We thank you that you have come in the name of Jesus, for it is only by that name we have access to the Father. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me, John 14:6, and There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved, Acts 4:12. We rest in that name together.
Father, we thank You for the video times You have restored. Continue what You have begun, for what You do lasts forever. Help this father and son to learn each other's languages and hearts, help this father to hold his tongue when needed and to speak grace when needed, and help them both to be kept from evil. Hedge this woman's way with thorns so she cannot pursue sin, convict her deeply, bring her to her senses, grant her godly sorrow and true repentance, and turn her feet to the narrow way. Let her sins be confessed and forsaken, let accountability surround her, and let Your mercy lead her to sin no more. Protect this boy from all evil, from evil people and the evil one, and raise him up in Your righteousness to love You and to love others. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
Thanks for Video Times, "Everything God does lasts forever," Ecclesiastes 3:14; Prayer Request She Be Hedged with Thorns, Hos 2:6-7, Comes to her Senses and Repents, Luke 15:17-21, and "Stops Sinning SO Nothing Worse Befalls Her," John 5:14, Goes and Sins No More, John 8:10-11...
Father, it's no small thing to thanks to give for answered prayers ending 4+ months of silence and replacing it with some peace and restoration of video time w/ my young son in Asia. Thank You for agreement in some small yet important matters. Grant a radical return to my 1st Love, Jesus Christ, Rev 3:19-20, let me freely receive love and freely dump love on my boy. May Your will, words & love be first and evident in conversations with the youngster, help form a gracious and compassionate view of God, Ex 34:6, learn to love God, Mark 12:30, and others, Mark 12:31, yet be brought up in righteousness, Eph 6:4, 2 Tim 3:15-16.
thank You in one hand for some time together with my son, Ecclesiastes 7:18, yet with the other, 
ask she be convicted, Jn 16:8, hedged in with thorns so she can't pursue her lovers, Hos 2:6-7, come to her senses and repent as the prodigal, Lk 15:17-20. Please let her help facilitate calls so they go more smoothly, Prov 31:12. Keep the boy from temptation, sin's influences through wicked spirits, Eph 6:12-19, and keep them from deception, Matt 24:4-8, sin, 1 Cor 8:1, wrongdoing, 2 Cor 13:7, wrongdoing, fear and lies, Zeph 3:13, imposters and evil people, 2 Tim 3:13, Tit 1:16, 1 Cor 11:26, 2 Thes 3:2, temptation, evil and the evil one, Lk 11:4, Matt 6:13, Jn 17:15, 2 Thes 3:3, Rev 12:9. Thank You in Jesus’ Name.
