Surviving Estrangement (With Your Sanity)! #4

It’s easy in family estrangement situations to become angry, hurt, and frustrated. It’s easy to point a finger in blame. In a perfect world we would avoid the pain of estrangement, but we live in a fallen world with broken humanistic systems and broken people. This combination can lead to feeling like family is the enemy. This is not the truth.

God teaches us that Our fight is not against human beings. It is against the rulers, the authorities and the powers of this dark world. It is against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly world. (Ephesians 6:12)

We can effectively pray for our estranged loved one. We have the authority to pray against the divisive spirit of darkness that desires to destroy our families.

I encourage you to stand firmly on God’s promises, like this one in Genesis 17:7. “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.”

God wants to restore families!

Surviving Estrangement (with Your Sanity) ! #3

When facing estrangement from an adult child, we realize quickly that there’s no pain like “Kid pain”. No one can hurt us like our children can. One key to surviving with our sanity is surrender! God knows the pain we feel. When we surrender our children to God we can be sure that God is willing and able to do his work in their lives, (without our meddling) . Surrender them, and leave them with Him. This means surrender the desired outcome, surrender your motives, surrender your need to be right, surrender control, surrender your pain. Your children need a healthy YOU, when God brings them back!

God is a restoring God! Let Him do what he does best! Surrender and trust. Find rest for your soul!

Surviving Estrangement (With Your Sanity)! #2

God in all his wisdom and foreknowledge, looked ahead in time and knew that these days were

coming. He saw when a season of separation and heartache would tear the hearts of families. It was for this time, that the promise was given through the Prophet Malachi.

God spoke about a prophetic move regarding family restoration in Malachi chapter four, that would, “Turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the hearts of the children to their parents.”