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    Praying for Your Prodigal
    Praying for Your Prodigal
    Praying for Your Prodigal
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    Praying for Your Prodigal

    By Kyle Idleman

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    A book for parents and family members of those who are far from God, Praying for Your Prodigal draws on insights from AHA to help readers pray—and hope—for their prodigal. In this hope-filled, honest book Kyle Idleman offers stories about prodigals specifically for parents and grandparents of prodigals, as well as a series of prayers for readers to work through as they offer their prodigals to God.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid C Cook
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781434707963
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    Kyle Idleman

    Kyle Idleman is the senior pastor at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the largest churches in America. On a normal weekend, he speaks to more than twenty-five thousand people spread across eleven campuses. More than anything else, Kyle enjoys unearthing the teachings of Jesus and making them relevant in people’s lives. He is a frequent speaker for national conventions and influential churches across the country. Kyle and his wife, DesiRae, have been married for over twenty-five years. They have four children, two sons-in-law, and recently welcomed their first grandchild. They live on a farm in Kentucky.

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      Heartfelt Book, Very much enjoyed reading this and is a helpful tool as to when I pray for Prodigals in my family.

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    Praying for Your Prodigal - Kyle Idleman

    INTRODUCTION

    The word aha is defined as a sudden understanding, recognition, or resolution. For our purposes it’s "a sudden spiritual understanding, recognition, or resolution that brings about lasting transformation." AHA is a spiritual experience that brings about supernatural change.

    In some ways AHA can’t be explained; it must be experienced. AHA is the moment in someone’s life when there is a beautiful collision. At just the right time, there is a God moment, and life collides with God’s Word and the power of the Holy Spirit.

    Everything changes in that collision, which is why watching it happen is one of my favorite parts of being a pastor. I see it almost every weekend at the church where I serve. I listen to people as they tell about the spiritual awakening they have experienced. They were lost, and now they are found. They were blind, and now they are able to see.

    But I also hear the stories of the long, rocky, and twisted roads leading up to AHA. The paths preceding transformation are often painful—both for the travelers and those who love them.

    I have witnessed and listened to the AHA experiences of hundreds—if not thousands—of people over the years, and I have studied numerous transformation experiences of people in the Bible.

    With striking consistency, AHA always has three ingredients:

    1. A Sudden Awakening.

    2. Brutal Honesty.

    3. Immediate Action.

    Those three elements are necessary for AHA to take place. If there is an awakening and honesty but no action is taken, AHA doesn’t happen. If there is awakening and action but honesty is overlooked, AHA will be short-lived. But when God’s Word and the Holy Spirit bring these three things together, AHA is experienced.

    AHA is usually better understood through stories. One of the best examples is the parable Jesus told about the Prodigal Son, found in the fifteenth chapter of Luke. If you’re reading Praying for Your Prodigal, you are most likely deeply and personally familiar with the story. You are probably living it. And you can identify all too well with the father in the story.

    You know his heartbreak and ongoing sense of loss. You know the uncertainties and fears of sleepless nights. You know the humbling sense of powerlessness—the frustration of wanting to give your own life if only it would bring AHA for your prodigal, yet knowing that such an exchange is simply impossible. And so you wait. And hope. And worry. And try to trust. And repeat the whole cycle of emotions. And you pray through it all, sometimes with words and sometimes with groans and longings and emotions that transcend words.

    If this is your experience, I pray you will find comfort in these pages. The stories you will read are real stories. The letters are from real parents written to or about real wandering children. They are rooted in real hurts and deep disappointment, but they carry real hope. No situation will be exactly like yours—though some may be close—and I suspect you will recognize your own heart in each one.

    These stories remind you that you are not alone. Some of the accounts and prayers are ongoing. Some of them reveal hopes completed. Other mothers and fathers are waiting, like you, on a

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