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

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Simon and Schuster, 2008 M01 29 - 288 pages
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?

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Contents

SECTION
9
Praying Daily
16
4
38
SECTION
81
9
92
10
105
LIVING LIFE WITH YOUR PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
117
11
119
29
187
18
193
Supporting Each Other
199
SECTION FOUR
209
What Is Unconditional Love?
223
21
235
22
243
SECTION FIVE
253

12
123
19
135
13
149
14
159
15
167
16
177
Extending Unconditional Forgiveness
265
27
299
Epilogue
309
39
319
51
325
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Page 97 - The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
Page 93 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 79 - For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any doubleedged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Page 160 - See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
Page 209 - Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), '"that it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.
Page 178 - God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Page ix - May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Page 115 - But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

About the author (2008)

Janet Thompson is the founder and director of About His Work Ministries and the author of numerous books, including Everyday Brave and the Dear God series. She is also a speaker on topics relevant to today's Christian.

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