Dear Saints,
Based on recent comments on my blogs and various emails over the years, I know that many of you are concerned about your lost loved ones left behind. When I first got saved, my greatest fear was for my children. I used to get so frightened for them that I could feel my heart cinch up, broke out in sweats, and couldn't sleep. So, I began to search the Scripture, asking the Lord to lead me to verses that had to do with family salvation and in particular descendants! So, I'm going to list those passages here. If you are worried about your lost loved ones, I encourage you to read through these out loud and tell Father God that you are holding Him to His Word... that you know He is faithful to His Word, and He is merciful and full of grace. It's not disrespectful to tell God that His Word is true and you are holding Him to it and believing what He says in His Word. He loves that!
In most all of these Verses, there is a condition you must meet first. So meet that condition and then have Faith that God will save your Loved Ones! Believe me, it may seem impossible now as you look at them in the natural, but you must know and believe that with God NOTHING is impossible, and HE will find a way.
At the moment of this post, my adult son claims to be an atheist. He believes in evolution and denies the existence of any god, let alone the True God. He has ordered me never to speak of God to him again. In the natural, I simply cannot imagine how God will ever reach him. But I know my God!! There's nothing He can't do. There's no situation He can't orchestrate. There's not a person on Earth that He can't figure out a way to reach, no matter what. He's God! We have to think outside of our own little fleshly box and realize how Big our God Is!!
I also have several other family members who are also lost... but I'm believing for them as well!
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children, to such as keep His covenant,
And to those who remember His commandments to do them. Psalm 103:17-18
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights greatly in His commandments. His descendants will be mighty on earth; The generation of the upright will be blessed. Psalm 112:1-2
Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth. Psalm 25:13-14
I have been young, and now am old;
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor his descendants begging bread.
He is ever merciful, and lends;
And his descendants are blessed. Psalm 37:26-27
For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
And floods on the dry ground;
I will pour My Spirit on your descendants,
And My blessing on your offspring;
They will spring up among the grass
Like willows by the watercourses.’ Isaiah 44:3-4
For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of
those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love
Me and keep My commandments. Exodus 20:5-6
“As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.” Isaiah 59:21
So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household. John 4:53
So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:31
By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Hebrews 11:7
The Scripture says ONLY NOAH was righteous in his generation. It says nothing about his wife, kids, and their wives. But God delivered Noah's entire family!
LOT: Then there's Lot. If you know anything about Lot, he was not exactly a decent man. He was selfish and chose the good land for himself when Abraham offered him a choice. He was living in Sodom, a city that was so incredibly wicked, God had to torch it. This is a man who would have handed his virgin daughters over to be gang raped! YET BECAUSE OF ABRAHAM, Because Abraham loved Lot, God sent angels to rescue him AND his wife and daughters.
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. Genesis 19:29
Rahab: Remember Rahab. She was a prostitute in Jericho. But because she believed in God and saved the lives of the Israeli spies at the risk of her own life. Proving her faith, God not only saved her, but her entire household.
And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.Joshua 6:25
Yes, a person has free will and no one (even God) can force them to accept Him. HOWEVER, God can cause things to happen, events, tragedies, miracles, people, etc that can convince a person of His Existence, even going so far as to appear to hm or her Himself! So don't despair. Keep praying for your family members. Recite the above Scriptures. Believe that God will eventually save them, even if it has to be during the Tribulation!
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