{"id":36505,"date":"2021-07-18T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=36505"},"modified":"2021-07-18T00:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:37:08","slug":"a-prayer-for-a-wanderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=36505","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for a Wanderer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I have become quite a fan of Kathleen Nielson\u2019s new set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/collections\/current-specials\/products\/prayers-of-a-parent-set-4-volumes?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">prayer books<\/a> for parents. Through four short volumes she provides prayers for parents of young children, of teens, of young adults, and of adult children. Last time I shared &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/quotes\/a-parents-prayer-for-an-unbelieving-child\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Parent\u2019s Prayer for an Unbelieving Child<\/a>&#8221; from the book about parenting young adults and this time wanted to share &#8220;A Prayer for a Wanderer&#8221; from the book about parenting adult children. I think many will find that it gives them words to express the concerns and desires of their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Lord God, I do not know and cannot see her heart, but all her steps appear to turn away from you, away from light and life found in your Son.<\/p>\n<p>I know, Lord, that you see into the darkest heart; your perfect wisdom lays out all our paths. Please turn her feet and move her heart\u00a0toward you, toward life in Christ, I pray.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know just how you might ordain\u00a0to call her to yourself to find eternal life\u00a0and life abundant, through believing in your Son.<\/p>\n<p>I know that you have given your breathed-out Word, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I have become quite a fan of Kathleen Nielson\u2019s new set of prayer books for parents. Through four short volumes she provides prayers for parents of young children, of teens, of young adults, and of adult children. Last time I shared \u201cA Parent\u2019s Prayer for an Unbelieving Child\u201d from the book about parenting young adults and this time wanted to share \u201cA Prayer for a Wanderer\u201d from the book about parenting adult \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[809],"class_list":["post-36505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-quotes","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/matthew-henry-kX9lb7LUDWc-unsplash-1-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36510,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36505\/revisions\/36510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}