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Highlights
- Has your world been turned upside down by a loved one's behavior?
- Author(s): Judy R Slegh
- 254 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Ministry
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About the Book
Stressing the need for self-reflection and forgiveness, this resource illuminates how partnering with God through prayer is the key to recovering from the pain inflicted by a beloved prodigal. Experience healing through devotional readings, designed to help you identify and unpack your emotional baggage, freeing you to welcome your prodigal home.Book Synopsis
Has your world been turned upside down by a loved one's behavior? Do you wonder how you will survive the pain of this season? Is God ignoring your pain?
With wisdom drawn from her experience with a prodigal child, Judy R. Slegh offers compassion and hope to those wearied by the turmoil of loving someone who has turned away from the faith and value systems of his or her upbringing. Designed as an emotional healing resource, this devotional guide combines interactive prayer with thoughtful guidance to help readers
- identify components of emotional wounds,
- release pain,
- set boundaries,
- learn to hear God's voice,
- recognize spiritual forces at work,
- deal with demonic influences,
- develop God-directed declarations for specific situational prayer.
Stressing the need for self-reflection and forgiveness, this resource illuminates how partnering with God through prayer is the key to recovering from the pain inflicted by a beloved prodigal. Experience compassion, hope, and healing through devotional readings, thoughtful questions, and prayers designed to help you identify and unpack your emotional baggage, freeing you to welcome your prodigal home.
Review Quotes
Help! I have a Prodigal! If you are not in this situation right now, the
chances are you will be in the future. When we think of prodigals, we
think of our children, but prodigals come in our relationships with
people, extended family, and church family. Judy Slegh has taken her
years of prayer ministry and given us brief insight into the emotional,
spiritual, and physical toll a prodigal can extract from a close walk
with the Lord. Judy leads the reader through gaining insight into their
situation while eliminating the need to spend countless hours on a
Christian therapist's couch. If you are open to encountering the healing
work of Father God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, Judy leads us there with
a few illustrations, questions, and suggested prayers. Prodigal or not,
this work is helpful to recovery and getting back on track in your faith
walk with a loving triune God, ruler of the seen and unseen universe.
Bob Coombe
Pastor of Spiritual Development, Certified Critical Incident Stress
Management, Pastoral Critical Incident Stress Management, Pastoral
Care, Crisis & Trauma Counseling from the American Association of
Christian Counselors, Edinbrook Church, Brooklyn Park, MN
Help! I have a Prodigal! is a phenomenal example of how to pray for our
loved ones and stay sane in the midst of life situations that are beyond
our control. This book reveals the essential understanding of one's own
hurts and wounds and how they affect our thinking, emotions, and
relationships. Judy explains how to surrender our fears and worries in
parenthood by placing our trust in God, and offers a practical approach
to spiritual victory through prayer and biblical truths.
Dr. Jessica Rothmeyer
PhD in Clinical Christian Counseling, MA in Marriage and Family
Therapy, Divine Marriage Center
The book you hold in your hands is a guide filled with teaching and activation
to help those who have prodigals. Having loved a prodigal into
health, Judy shares from her personal experience and wisdom gained
from her thousands of hours in prayer ministry. This book leads the
reader from feelings of being a guilt-and shame-filled victim weighed
down by their prodigal's situation into feeling free from their prodigal's
choices. I have known Judy and observed her work in setting captives
free for several years. She uses her great teaching and instructional gift
to prayerfully walk the reader through Spirit-led exercises to bring freedom
for themselves and their prodigal. I highly recommend this book
as a guide to personal freedom.
Dave Weigel
Pastor of Living Waters Church, Elk River, MN