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| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1413 Registered: 3-2004  |
Greg, I will pray for you and your family. I am so glad for you that you were assured of your father's salvation last week when you saw him. May God hold you up in his awesome arms and keep you there while he comforts you. Diana | ||
| Greg Registered user Username: Greg Post Number: 115 Registered: 2-2005 |
FAF family, Thank you all for your loving and kind support of me and my family during this trying time. God is truly sovereign and uses these situations to bring us closer together in his heavenly family. Let his name be praised in all the earth! God bless you all, Greg | ||
| Bob Registered user Username: Bob Post Number: 218 Registered: 7-2000  |
Greg, thanks to the private email you sent me today, I now realize that I knew your father personally. His death will be mourned by many. Bob | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 37 Registered: 3-2005 |
This is both a praise and a prayer request. Here is my praise - My mother is a SDA but goes to Church with us because she cannpt drive any more. We have told her we would find a ride for her to go to her own SDA Church if she wants to. We didn't want to force her to go to our Church. At first she went with us about once or twice a month. Then last year our Church had the "Purpose Driven Life" series for six weeks. Mom said she wanted to attend all of them! Since then she has wanted to go with us every week. She just loves our Church and thinks the Pastor gives great sermons. She participates in the classes and asks great questions. She has really begun to understand Salvation by Grace, not works! She is becoming more and more at peace about her relationship with Jesus. About a month ago she said she was going to ask to become a member of our Church! I am so HAPPY! She has always been supportive of our leaving the SDA Church. But she was pretty involved in the SDA Church. She was the first woman elder in our area. But all along she had a more grace-oriented view of Salvation. It's just that all those SDA doctrines have a way of creeping in even when one thinks they are immune! Anyway, she is ready to make the move out of the SDA Church. My prayer request is this - The day (later that evening) mom told me that she wanted to leave the SDA Church she became very confused, talking "word salad", and very weak. We took her to the hospital but they could not find any reason for this. Then a week later she asked my daughter for help dressing, then became unresponsive in her arms. My daughter's husband call 911 and by the time they got there she had no detectable pulse. Her blood pressure was 50/30. She was rushed to the hospital and was stabilized. She spent a week there and then came home. The next day we called 911 again because the was passing out! They have no idea what is going on. She did go to Church with us last weekend and seems fine now! My fear is that this will scare her into not wanting to leave the SDA Church, or at least postpone thinking about it. I know she has a relationship with Jesus, and know she is saved. But I don't want this to put doubts into her mind. It almost seems to be spiritual warfare going on - and I'm not one to see everything in that light. But the doctor's can find no explaination for all that has happened. PLEASE PRAY FOR HER! And please pray for my family as we try to cope with all of this. It has been very stressful. I have missed so much work that I am now taking leave without pay when she needs me. She does have a caregiver during the day, and my daughter and family live with her and care of her at night. But I am the one with POA and so often am needed for doctors' appointments, decisions, etc. In all though I am so excited that mom has come to know the Lord in such an intimate way and is sure of her salvation. At this point membership in any Church is not an issue. But, I would love for her to "officially" join us in our Church. Thanks for all the support and prayers I know will be offered here. -tisha | ||
| Dd Registered user Username: Dd Post Number: 424 Registered: 7-2004 |
God is stronger than any spiritual warfare the devil can through at you and your family, Tisha. Hang on to Him. "Be strong and courageous, do not fear or be dismayed...for the One with us is greater than the one with him" 2 Chronicles 32:7 | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1842 Registered: 12-2003  |
Wonderful text, Dd! Praying for you and your mom, Tisha. Colleen | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 365 Registered: 7-2004 |
I'm praying, too. For you to have the strength and wisdom required to care for your mom, and for her to have the resolve to carry forward with her original plan. Belva | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1416 Registered: 3-2004 |
Tisha, I am praying for you and your Mom also. I am so glad she is having a personal relationship with Jesus. I am praying for her health also. God is still in charge and Satan has been defeated. God is awesome. Diana | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1789 Registered: 11-2002 |
Emergency prayer request! I am stuck 150 miles from home with a broken down car. It started acting goofy last night and this morning the engine light came on. I drove it to the first auto repair shop in this community and hopefully it can be fixed by tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime my youngest child is swweating it because he is not suppoased to leave our county without written approvial from his pribation officer and we didn't bother to get it from him because he won't give it to my son. That is because we are staying on a military base with my other sons family and the county probation agents are not allowed on bases so the agents won't let the guys under them get passes to stay on a base. So, we just didn't bother. Now we need prayers that the car can be fixed tomorrow o.k. and that we can cover our tracks with my sons p.o. Please, pray also that this doesn't become too major of a financial expense. Thank-you. Susan | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 379 Registered: 7-2004 |
I'm sending for you a prayer of intercession and of courage. I've been far from home and dealing with a broken down automobile. Belva | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1435 Registered: 3-2004 |
Susan, I am praying for you also. Father in heaven, you know all about Susan's son and his p.o. and the whole situation. You take care of it, please. Fix her car and do not let it cost her a lot. You are awesome God. Diana | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1436 Registered: 3-2004 |
This is a request for prayer for my sister, I will call GAL. She is here in Vegas this weekend and I had a short opportunity to share with her. She was talking about what a godly man our Catholic priest uncle is. I told her that the things we studied in the SDA schools about the Catholic church were not Biblical. She replied she did not remember it and than began defending the church in a general way saying all churches, not just the SDA church do things and I agreed that all are made up of human beings. I did not get much farther as people came up. It was the end of our niece's daughter's birthday party. So please remember GAL in your prayers. Thanks so much. God you are awesome. Diana | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1790 Registered: 11-2002 |
Yes, Diana, Isn't this a wonderful on this prayer site for us to keep each others concerns in our prayers. I hope the Holy Spirit works within you to be a wittness to your sister. I have had numerous SDA kin tell me that same line that you heard from your sister, that the church is made up imperfect people so we shouldn't hold the failings of the SDA church against the church itself but rather the people make mistakes so don't find fault with the church because of human error. Frankly, Diana, I don't go along with that reasoning. The SDA church was founded on lies and errors and the result is that it still 150 years later is promoting those lies and errors. Yes, I'm sure your priest uncle is a lovely man. I attend the local Catholic church nearly every Monday evening for the prayer and praise service and several of the local preists occassionally pop in and they are Godly men who not only care greatly for their own congreation but the community as a whole. | ||
| Sabra Registered user Username: Sabra Post Number: 344 Registered: 10-2001 |
Tisha, Your story is awesome, I'm so happy for you and your mom, I thought I had posted that already but maybe it didn't take. Susan, praying for you and your car and son. If you could all say a prayer for me. A couple of months ago I talked to my pastor briefly, not requesting prayer for anyone, but wholeness in my household. He took a long look at me, said I wasn't whole, said that sometimes tough love is the best love, that God did not want me living in that junk and said that he would not pray for my husband, but that I be delivered from him. Praise God, today the police came and got my husband on old warrants that stem from some really stupid things he did in 1989, before I ever met him. There is no bail. I have an appointment Tuesday to file for a divorce. I've tried all I can bear and he just gets worse and worse. My prayer request is that he will stay in jail long enough for me to get a divorce and get my life straightened out. I talked to my pastor again tonight and he told me that this is the first day of the rest of my life and he annointed me with oil and prayed for provision, peace, power and other things, and told me it's time to rest, also told me if I need anything to call the church and they will help. This man, my pastor, preaches against divorce, he is not one to tell anyone to get a divorce and he didn't know enough about the situation to make that kind of statement and sometimes you just know that you heard from God, ya know? I should be freaking out right now, I'm not able to afford this at all, but I know that it is all going to work out. At least after 15 years of hell, I had a part in bringing his two kids (well, the two I know)to Christ. His son is living here, he is 18 and went to church with me today, he was saved a couple of years ago but he doesn't always go to church with me, today he was so blessed he couldn't quit talking about it and said he wanted to go every week. His daughter, Tiffany, got saved during the Easter presentation at church but she has only come to church once since. She works with me at the dentist office, I got her a job as a dental assistant and she is going to school to get her license for it. She has a really messed up boyfriend, mirror image of her dad, and she has dated him for 5 years and he is really a jerk, please pray that it disolves. Well, that's enough drama, I'm so happy inside I just want to run up and down the street! Love you all! Sabra | ||
| Susan_2 Registered user Username: Susan_2 Post Number: 1793 Registered: 11-2002 |
Dearest Sabra, For sure my prayers are with you. Let me share something a minister told me about divorce. He told me there are certain things that are just expected as givens in a marriage. Respect, sharing, fidelity, etc. If these things are not provided by one or both partners in the marriage then it is not an honest marriage before God. If it's not an honest marriage before God then the best thing to do is to get out of the marriage and if you are ever to get married again then do so with a Christian because as Christians we are not to be unequally yolked with nonbelievers. The pastor told me even if the legal statue of limitations has expired for an annulement before God it is the same, just get out of it and be on with your life and if you hook up again have it be with a truly committed Christian. All I can say is before God it seems as if you are getting out of what shouldn't have even been. So my prayers are with you to have peace in your heart on this. I hope you are finatelly o.k. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1872 Registered: 12-2003 |
Susan, praying for you and your car/son situation. Sabra, I understand your joy. Praise God that He redeems our past when we give it to Him. The future God builds on the foundation of our surrendered brokenness reveals His love and forgiveness and mercy more deeply because of our pain and regret. Praise God that He is with you, that He will not leave you, that He is already in the future and is holding you. I'm praying for you. Colleen | ||
| Sabra Registered user Username: Sabra Post Number: 345 Registered: 10-2001 |
Susan and Colleen, The strange thing is that I could not see how bad it was until very recently. I always stuck with the theory that if he wasn't physically abusive it wasn't that bad. That I should do more to encourage him and build him up because of his problems. YUCK! I'm here to say that physical abuse at least eventually heals, this mental torture is much worse and only God could step in and heal my poor head. Praise Him that He did, finally. Everything is in His time and He knows what He is doing. Praise Him!  | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 181 Registered: 8-2004 |
Oh Sabra! Praying for you! | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 383 Registered: 7-2004 |
Sabra, you and I are dealing with the same thing just now. In late January I finally got the courage to leave my husband of 25+ years, and the whole time he used anger and shouting to abuse my children and me. My daughter got the worst of it, I think. She started developing very young, so by the time she was 11 he was calling her some awful names that a child that age should never be exposed to, just because her hormones were kicking in. I don't want to go into the details, but now he's asking if we can't patch things up. I never want to put myself in the position to be treated or talked to like that again, not ever! Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can really hurt me. Belva | ||
| Bob Registered user Username: Bob Post Number: 226 Registered: 7-2000 |
I grew up in a home where verbal and physical abuse (wife and child beating) were a weekly occurrence. In the process of recovery over many years, I learned from my experience and from counselors that the emotional abuse is far worse than the physical blows. And when a child sees a parent abused, the damage to the child is even more intense than if he were receiving it himself. I have experienced a lot of deliverance to be thankful for! Only Jesus can heal those kinds of wounds. Bob |
