The Abusive Dad Fathers do not irritate and provoke Your children to anger (do not exasperate them to resentment) but rear them (tenderly) in the training and discipline and the counsel and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
Lord, I pray that you will heal, deliver, and set the abusive dad free; whether he is physically or emotionally abusive deliver him from all works of evil. Lord, whatever has happened in his life that caused him to be abusive, You will pull it out of his mind, body, soul, and spirit. Break the yoke of bondage off his life. I pray You will go to the root of the problem: dig it up and pull it out. If he is abusive to his children because he was abused as a child, allow this cycle to be broken in Jesus’ name. Heal him of the childhood trauma he experienced. Don’t allow him to keep revisiting incidents and situations that caused him to be abusive. Lord don’t allow pride to prevent him from getting help. Let him know that he cannot do it by himself. Allow him to know that the cycle can and will be broken. I pray that he will receive Godly counseling. Don’t allow him to abuse the girls because they are not boys. Don’t allow him to abuse the boys because they remind him of himself, or everything he is not. Don’t allow him to 12
