51. Why Pray For Our Adult Kids? Interview with Rachel Britton

Episode 51

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Do our prayers for our adult kids even matter? Will praying for them help our relationship with them? Rachel Britton not only feels an urgency to pray for her own children, but wants to help other women feel equipped to pray. As she says, "I think we've all realized in this past year that life is short and fragile. Prayer is the best legacy we can leave our children."

Rachel Britton

Rachel is a British-born writer, author, and speaker whose passion is to help women become comfortable and confident in their conversation with God. Her blog “Praying Naturally” offers an extensive library of free prayer resources to help you deepen and develop your prayer life. Rachel is wife to Colin and mom to three young adults.

Show Notes

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Rachel Britton:
website: rachelbritton.com
Facebook: Rachel Britton, Prayer Zone Workout
Book: Tough To Love
Online Magazine: Radiant

  • Also, check out the radiant.nyc Instagram account.

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You don’t see birds sitting on an empty nest.

I’m excited about what God has done. It’s taken a long time to get here. But He’s used my passions. He’s using my experience during these empty nest years.

I don’t consider myself a prayer warrior. I’m not great at it myself. But what I want to focus on is helping women practice prayer. We can read a lot about prayer but actually doing it is the hard bit. But the most important bit.

The main struggle with prayer: not knowing what to say and being able to focus.

Main struggle with adult children: expectations.

If I get frustrated, disappointed, I can be upset. And if I’m not careful then those things do come out in my relationship with my children.

Praying for adult kids: 

Not pushing my expectations on my children but showing them unconditional love. This is most important thing when passion for keep them close to the Lord .

When kids are not doing the things I think are right, I have to come before God and bring Him the angst over the things I’m worried about so when I come out of prayer and go into those relationships I’m showing them my motherly love but also the love of God.

Relationship with adult kids: Find things you can enjoy together. 

Advice of a place to minister: One of the needs we do have is our relationship with the younger generation. Our tendency is to put ourselves in these age boxes. More mixing with women in their twenties and thirties would be wonderful.

Advice to younger self: Trust God more and have stronger faith in Him.

I spent a lot of time really asking God, that I want to leave to go back where I missed. Looking back- I should have trusted more. And now with kids a long way away and life’s not how I expected it to be during these years, then that’s what I keep telling myself, “Trust God. Trust God with this. He knows what’s best and He has the best plans for me.”

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