"The longer they're gone, the less likely they are to ever return."
How it sounds in your head: It's been five years. Ten years. She has a whole life now built around rejecting everything you raised her with. The statistics about people who leave the faith say most don't come back. Time is making it permanent.
"So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you."
-- Joel 2:25Enemy timeline lie that uses duration as evidence of impossibility, contradicting God's timelessness.
You've watched her build an entire identity around not being Christian—married a non-believer, raises her kids atheist, mocks faith on social media. Every year adds another layer of distance, another reason it seems impossible she'd turn around now.
Saul wasn't just far from God—he was actively murdering Christians with religious zeal. One encounter with Jesus on the Damascus road, and within DAYS he was preaching Christ. Instant, complete, radical transformation regardless of how deep the opposition had been.
I REFUSE the lie that time makes return less likely. IT IS WRITTEN that God will restore the years the locust has eaten. My child's duration in rebellion does NOT determine the speed of their restoration. IT IS WRITTEN that with God nothing is impossible. One encounter with the living God can undo decades of distance. I am not discouraged by time—I am EXPECTANT that God is orchestrating the divine collision that will bring instant transformation. The BARAK blessing of Abraham is on my seed, and it cannot be stopped by a calendar.
The Father has been working every single day of those five years, ten years, however long—planting, watering, positioning, preparing. He's not counting down to a deadline of impossibility; He's counting down to the APPOINTED TIME of breakthrough that will make everyone who doubted eat their words.