132: Warfare Parenting: Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal Child with Laine Lawson Craft

Today"s guest is author, speaker, and podcast host Laine Lawson Craft.  This episode is a little longer because Laine"s personal experience as the mother of three - yes three! - prodigal children and the strategies she"s learned along the way are just too helpful and powerful to edit down to the length of most of my episodes.  Our children mean so much to us but parenting them isn"t for the faint of heart. The terrible twos were indeed terrible. And no one prepared us for the turbulent teen years.  Today"s interview is about parenting an adult child who is making destructive decisions or who is walking down a dark path or who has turned his/her back on their faith. Parenting a wayward or prodigal child impacts a parent in significantly different ways. Laine poured her experiences with her three prodigal children and the wisdom she gained into her book, The Parent"s Battle Plan: Warfare Strategies to Win Back Your Prodigal Child and her devotional, Warfare Parenting: A Daily Battle Plan to Fight for Your Child. Both are available on Amazon. Laine and I discussed the journey with each of her three children, content from her book, and her desire to have Warfare Parenting Small Groups across the country to support parents of wayward and prodigal children. Notable quotes: * "Hope to me is waiting expectantly on God"s turnaround." * "Today’s struggle is tomorrow’s testimony.” * "Like a relentless rescue team, God is tirelessly working to bring your lost one home. God is in the rescue business, and He’s really good at it.” * "I"m going to love you so that you see something different in me that makes you yearn to be more like that." "They were just in a chapter of their story, and God gets all the glory. And now they are messengers of hope to their generation." Bible verses: * John 10:10 * Matthew 20:1-16 * Isaiah 54:17 * 1 John 4:4 * Exodus 14:14 * John 8:32 * Luke 19:10 * Laine"s fight verse is Ephesians 3:20. Learn more about Laine at her website: lainelawsoncraft.com her Facebook page: facebook.com/momlaine.lawsoncraft her Instagram page: instagram.com/lainelawsoncraft Send me a COMMENT or QUESTION! THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Have a comment about this episode? Click HERE and complete the form.