What Does God Want?

As followers of Jesus and loving parents it has been our deep desire that our children would grow up to live godly lives, healthy in body, soul and spirit. We have always wanted what was best for them even when my husband and I were navigating life without Jesus. We loved our children deeply and longed for them not to repeat the same mistakes that we made or choose the difficult paths that we had chosen. But I admit we somehow knew that we were powerless to really change the outcome of their lives.

Before we met Jesus those desires where simply that our children would be good people, but after coming to Christ and to a knowledge of the truth, our desire changed. Good was no longer good enough, we now wanted them to be godly men and women. This is the yearning, the deep and intense ache in the heart of any good parent.

As believers, my husband and I learned many principles that helped us to understand that we were the direct spiritual inheritance for our kids as our parents had been before us. This was not only a revelatory truth, but it was also a very scary truth because it meant that every dark path we had followed in our lives could have affected our children behind us spiritually as well as physically.

Praise the Lord that He called my husband and myself into His Kingdom within a week of each other. Unbeknownst to us there were people offering up requests and intercession on our behalf. They were thanking God in advance for what He would do. And He did! We grew and learned important Kingdom principles and began to offer up requests and prayers for our children to God. We invited God into the dark places of our past to deliver us from evil, which changed the ungodly spiritual inheritance they were receiving.

Within a few years He called two of our four children into His Kingdom. Now in our family there are four of us making requests, prayers and intercession for the two who are still lost, trusting confidently that God’s principles and Kingdom keys are as powerful as ever.

Our intercession is acceptable, pleasing to God and, if I read my Bible correctly, if it’s acceptable to Him, then we can thank Him for what He will do. It will be His way, not our way. Praise God! God is determined, as His sacrifice on the cross proves, to call His children to Himself, because He is the only good and perfect parent.