Adult child rejection prayers

Adult child rejection prayers 

Adult child rejection

is painful.

Rejection from an adult child

is overwhelming.

This is page 2.   For page one click  - HERE

This page has

prayer

and

video wisdom for 

a parent

who lives with

anger or apathy

from an adult child.

Many parents

are confused and confounded

as they deal with

some type of rejection

from

their adult child. 

All situations are unique.

Yet,

seeking to gain wisdom

is always

a good choice.

-

What can parents do?

How can parents react wisely?

How do parents pray about the situation?

The video below

shares wisdom about this situation. 

The video

speaks to

cases where adult children are angry

at their parent

for childhood issues

and perhaps also recent issues.

The video

presents

several wisdom principles

that usually

help these situations.

This video deals with...

The disconnection -

Feeling lost and confused -

And

Help with how to react

Prayer  Section

6 main Prayers

and several mini-prayers

are presented.

The 6 main prayers can be divided into

6 days.

The prayers build on one another.

All situations are unique.

Consider

taking out

of these prayers

what is not relevant

and

putting in what needs to be added.

Lord God,

I come before you

and

lay down at your feet - my pain.

I lay before you -  my confusion.

I lay before you -  my sadness.

My great love for my child

cries out for closeness

while

the

pain

I feel from

our fractured relationship

grows bigger and deeper.

Help me to take all my painful emotions

and put them at the foot of the cross.

Soothe me.

Guide my thoughts and my reactions.

I want to yield to you.

Amen

Copyright © 2026 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

Short Prayer

Lord of Love,

Thank you for remembering

all 

the acts of love

including all the sacrifices

that

I did for my child.

Sometimes it seems

like

those things have been forgotten.

Amen

Prayer  2

Heavenly Father,

I praise you

for your nurturing love and healing mercies.

Hear the depths of

my heart

as I come before you

and try to put my situation

into words.

My child is carrying hurt and anger

that my child says that I caused.

To help my relationship with my child,

I need to accept

the idea

that

my child's pain was caused or increased by me.

I am overwhelmed with emotions.

God,

thank you for saying that

you take all our tears and put them in your bottle.

And

I believe you even treasure the tears

that never made it down my face

but instead

dripped directly onto my aching heart.

Help me -

I do not understand the issues my child has with me.  

Help me - 

I do not understand the root of the coldness toward me.

Help me - 

I do not know what to do to make things better.

And

my child

does not open up

in a way that brings clarity.

I do not understand

what I did

that caused this profound pain

in my child.

My mind and my emotions are tangled into knots.

Untangle me, Lord.

Amen

Copyright © 2026 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

Tears - Psalm 56:8

Prayer  3

Heavenly Father,

I bow my head and my heart

before you.

I ache

at the dismissiveness and the distance 

I get from my child.

I thought I did a pretty good job.

I tried to do better than my parents did.

I tried to meet the needs that my parents left unmet.

I know I messed up sometimes,

yet I thought I was doing a pretty good job.

But

my child reacts to me as though I totally failed.

Lord, the bottom line is -

my assignment from you

is

to be a good parent

and

my child thinks that I am not.

Where do I go from here?

My child

does not even want to talk to me about it.

How can I avoid future heart ache

for my child

if

I do not understand what caused the past heart ache?

Shepherd of my Soul,

help me.

Amen

Copyright © 2026 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

Short Prayer

Short Prayer to pray often -

Lord,

I call out to you to  -

Bring peaceful acceptance to the past.

Bring hope into my present.

Bring restoration into my future.

Amen

Copyright © 2026 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

Prayer  4

My Comforter and my Shepherd,

Thank you for

welcoming my prayers

and for understanding my emotions.

Thank you for affirming your love for me

in your Word

and

at the cross of sacrifice.

Thank you for reminding me

that you are able

to bring

me

wisdom and peace

as I seek you

and

take shelter in your continual love for me.

Today, Lord, I want to pray for my child.

I want to infuse my love

into

prayers for my child.

Help me to turn my focus away from myself

and onto my child.

Teach me how to pray for my child.

Teach me how to move forward with my child.

Please guide me to a place of humbleness.

I want to remove all pride in my heart.

I will focus on my child's pain.

I will not defend myself.

I will abandon

defensiveness.

I will not

defend

myself 

by calling out

all 

the acts of love

including all the sacrifices

that

I did for my child.

I need

to

instead,

humbly

focus

on my

parental weaknesses

and

learn to give comfort

to my child through prayers.

Today I pray -

that you would minister

to

my child

in the day and in the night

so that

my child will receive

emotional healing

and

so that

my child

will be drawn

to grow closer to you.

In Jesus' name I pray,

Amen

Copyright © 2026 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

Short Prayer

Short Prayer to pray often -

Lord,

I call out to you

to

bring your comfort and healing love to my child.

Amen

Prayer  5

My Lord, My Comforter, My Shepherd,

Thank you

for surrounding my parental pain

with your divine love.

Teach me

to pray for my child

and

interact with my child

in ways that will bless my child.

Today I pray for my child - 

Almighty God,

You are everything _________ needs.

Bless __________.

Be to my child -  comfort.

Be to my child - emotional healing.

Be to my child - peace.

Be to my child - wisdom.

Bless my child this day – and this week –

and this month – and this year.

Bring to my child

deep healing - 

as

you walk my child

toward

a more vibrant relationship with you.

In Jesus' miraculous name,

I pray,

AMEN!

Copyright © 2017 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

Prayer  6

This prayer is written twice.

Prayer one is for a daughter.

Prayer two is for a son.

Prayer one  - for a daughter.

Dear Lord,

Bless my daughter.

Heal my child from past emotional hurts, wounds, and pains.

Where she needs to process past events,

help her to process past events.

Where she needs certain words to help her process,

give her certain words from you.

Where she needs understanding

of

how much you love her,

give

her

understanding.

Where she needs a friend, give her a good godly friend.

Where she needs

such and such,

give her such and such.

I pray that she will clearly hear your voice today,

and that

she will steadfastly follow you.

Thank you for steering her with your

protective

love and guidance.

Thank you for everything you are doing

to encourage her and help her.

You created her to do amazing things as she follows her amazing Savior.

In Jesus’ name I pray,

Amen

Copyright © 2017 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

* * The "such and such" comment is meant to cover
everything that the person needs
but that we do not know how
to put into prayer words.

Prayer for a son

Dear Lord,

Bless my son.

Heal my child from past emotional hurts, wounds, and pains.

Heal my child from past emotional wounds.

Where he needs to process past events,

help him to process past events.

Where he needs certain words to help him process,

give him certain words from you.

Where he needs understanding

of

how much you love him,

give

him

understanding.

Where he needs a friend, give him a good godly friend.

Where he needs such and such,

give him such and such.

I pray that he will clearly hear your voice today,

and that he will steadfastly follow you.

Thank you for steering him with your

protective

love and guidance.

Thank you for everything you are doing

to encourage him and help him.

You created him to do amazing things as he follows his amazing Savior.

In Jesus’ name I pray,

Amen

Copyright © 2017 Beth McLendon of Inspirational-Prayers.com

* * The "such and such" comment is meant to cover
everything that the person needs
but that we do not know how
to put into prayer words.

Short Prayer

Short Prayer to pray often -

Lord,

I ask you to

minister 

to

the hurts and pains of my child.

Amen

Quick attacks and then silence

I was watching a video and it gave some interesting advice

about adult children who give quick verbal attacks.

Some adult children

will

 - out of the blue - 

verbally attack a parent

about a past event.

And when

the parent tries to use the time for a conversation,

the child then gives a quick response

and

totally shuts down.

In the few moments as your child is shutting down,

prayerfully consider answering

in a humble tone -

"Yes, I did that."

A simple answer and change the subject.

Do not get defensive.

Or

prayerfully consider

calmly and gently saying

some or all of the following,

"Yes, I did that.

What am I missing?

You bring this up over and over.

What am I missing about how this affected you?

What would it look like for me to gain your trust?

What would it look like for me to be the kind of mom you want?"

And then listen carefully to ANY response.

Do not start an argument.

Do not get defensive.

Just listen. 

Just try to learn something about the root of your child's pain.

Anything they answer in anger

that could be informational,

consider saying,

"Thank you for sharing." 

A  Helpful  Phrase

"That makes sense."

The phrase

"that makes sense"

is usually a good response

to say when your child shares

his or her

hurt and anger.

Note that

you need to say the phrase honestly.

It comes from

intentionally seeing things

from your child's perspective -

instead of

your perspective.

As we understand an adult child's pain,

we can

understand

more and more

WHY

what he or she is feeling and saying

makes

sense.

Music

This song addresses hurting

in a

gentle, comforting way.

-

There are times to pray

and times to sit quietly with God

crying -

either inwardly or outwardly.

This song

may or may not

apply to your situation.

I am praying for you.

I am planning on doing

a page of songs

that are designed

for

those parents

who are experiencing

rejection.

This page

- Adult child rejection - 

was presented in September 2026.