By Os Hillman
February 21
"He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse" (Mal 4:6).
I came into the room and greeted my wife. Within a few moments I began to cry uncontrollably. My wife was naturally concerned as she had never seen me do this. I had just returned from dinner with my eighteen year-old-daughter. I had listened to how fearful she was of the future. I was concluding a commitment to a seven year child support and alimony from a divorce that had taken place many years earlier but the impact was still apparent in my daughter's life. It was something I had fought against but lost. I was angry and broken over what she was feeling. It all came to the surface like a boil that needed to burst.
A few months later I had to speak at a conference in Minneapolis. A dear friend came up to me and said, "Os, we want to pray for you and Angie downstairs. Can you come down?" "Sure, we will be right down," I said. We went downstairs to meet them and sat down. My friend and his friend Ron began to pray for us. Ron began to speak about my life in very specific terms. "You have a daughter-...The Lord says she has a gift in writing-poetry-and she has creative gifts. The Lord says she has been in a stronghold for many years in her life but he is about to bring her out of that stronghold. He is turning the daughter's heart back to the father's and He is bringing her home. The Lord says He has seen the tears you have shed for her in your bedroom."
By this time, Angie and I are on the floor weeping. We went home with this profound experience. Within a year, my daughter came to Christ and even came to live at our home for a year.
Do you have a son or daughter that is not walking with God right now? Lay your desire before the Lord and ask Him to draw him or her to Himself. He can do it.
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