I am writing to request prayers for my son, ###. He is a believer in Christ and has a personal relationship with Jesus. However, in my sincere desire to raise him in an environment of purpose and structure, I have unintentionally turned our home into a place of rules without love. I told ### he had choices; he could choose to stay and follow a plan or leave when he turned 18. I should have never spoken a word I did not desire to come true. ###, about ten days after turning 18 in a moment of emotion, expressed that he did not feel that I cared about him as a person or respect his father as the head of the house due to my militant demeanor and, as a result, he is now staying with friends. We have only provided monetary things, not emotional support. Please pray that ###'s heart will be sensitive to God, and God will give ### a new heart and a new spirit. God puts a new heart in all of us; God has removed the heart of stone from ### flesh and given you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 ESV