| Author | Message | ||
| Lynn W |
Lord, I praise You for all the ex-Adventists & seekers who have found this site. I pray that you will keep directing them here, & more importantly, to Your Word. In the Name of Jesus. | ||
| Rayna |
I have enjoyed reading this web site regularly and tonight I would like to request prayers for my sister that just had surgery for removal of cancer. The lab test will not be back until Monday, but i am hoping and praying that all the cancer will have been removed. I would greatly appreciate your prayers for her. Thank you, In Christian love, Rayna | ||
| Jude the Obscure |
Rayna, so glad you've been reading us, and even more so that you would entrust us with your prayer request for the success of your sister's surgery. I pray so. Bless you always, Jude | ||
| Colleentinker |
Rayna, I'll be praying for you and your sister. Please let us know the outcome. Love in Him, Colleen | ||
| Sherry |
I have a question and a prayer request, please. Today my husband and I, and our church family, are greiving over the loss of a brother in Christ, who was also a pastor of our church. For over 10 years he was a powerful leader, teacher and counselor. Recently he had turned in his resignation, due to sins committed against God and our church family, as well as his immediate family. He had left the state, leaving his wife and children here. He had been very depressed. This whole ordeal has been a terrible thing. We learned last evening that he had taken his life yesterday. We are deeply saddened by this, we were praying for his healing, and then this. It's a powerful blow. Included in this is that, there is scandal, slander,it involves another family. The first question, heavy on my heart and mind, is, the question of his salvation. Is suicide an unpardonable sin? All my life I was led to believe it was, but this the first time I have had to really consider it. I ask you to pray for his immediate family, he leaves a young wife and four children. Please, also pray for my church. We don't understand what God is doing, but we know He has a plan. Our youth pastor's wife has been diagnosed with cancer. She is in stage four of cancer. They also have four young children, one a baby. Please pray that God will heal the cancer. Please, just pray that His grace will abound, and also for the rest of our pastoral staff. This is really a painful time we are going through. Thank you, With Love your Sister-in-Christ, Sherry | ||
| Colleentinker |
Dear Sherry, We'll pray. I'm sorry for the heartbreak. Only God can judge a person's motives and soul. We stand in his place when we declare a death to be unpardonable. He loves those who die even more than we do. We have to let him hold our loved ones and trust him to be just and merciful. I'm sorry. Colleen | ||
| Jude the Obscure |
Sherry, I'll pray too. Also for you. -Jude | ||
| Lydell |
Sherry, so sorry to hear about the problems at your church. I'm especially sorry to hear about the suicide. My brother committed suicide a few years ago. There's nothing like being there in a situation to get you to do heavy thinking. In my brother's situation, I say with sadness that I can't remember ever in his life seeing any outward sign of his "accepting Christ" as Saviour as a child as my parents tell me had happened. In fact, the only time I can really remember him using God's name was using it in profanity. So just on the basis of that, I will be very surprised if I see him in heaven. But you know, you just have to take a look at the whole act of suicide itself. Really Sherry, when you think about it, can you in any way see any semblance of sanity in what your friend has done in taking his life? I'm betting you saw him in some tender moments with his children through the years. You, I am sure, have seen how this has affected the man's friends and family. Does it sound like an act of sanity that he would willingly put his children through something like this? I doubt it! My point is this, only the Lord can look into someones mind and spirit and KNOW where they stood. If suicide is an act of insanity, then only God can know where that person stood with him the moment before the insanity fully took control of his mind. And remember, God is a God of powerful mercy and love! With Him it would only take literally a moment of sanity of crying out to Him for that person to be okay with Him. So, as Colleen said, no one can know what has gone on in moments of solitude between that individual and God, only God can judge. So even with my brother I can't entirely give up hope, for I can see indications of that insanity all the way back to his teenage years. Who is the one we are told in the Bible came to steal, kill, and destroy? It's satan. We have no way of knowing but what your friend was overwhelmed with despondency over the failings in his life. Satan can be very effective at laying on feelings of guilt. And more effective still in convincing someone that to open up and speak to someone about those feelings will only bring more condemnation. So they remain silent, and the attack gets stronger, and the separation from other people more distinct. No, we can never judge. Isn't it comforting to know that we have a God who takes into consideration all the facts and will ALWAYS render a just judgment! | ||
| jtree |
Pray request. Please pray for me, I am a warrior for Christ, and His Gospel. I defend the TRUTH. I am on one newsgroup. alt.religion.christian.adventist (I am on a few others..but this one seems full of misconceptions. | ||
| Richard Tinker |
FAF Family, Please pray for our website, and this forum, that it will be protected from evil and deception, and that God will protect and bless everyone who comes here looking for refuge or help. I have had to delete a few posts tonight that did not follow our forum guidelines, something that we rarely have to do. Pray for those whose posts were deleted, that they will find rest in the Grace of Jesus. -Richard | ||
| Timo K. |
Richard, I am also praying for this website, and I have been blessed by many posts. Also I understand that youre praying that this site will be protected. All of that is good. The other side of the coin is that God can lead seekers to this site who are not agreeing with all but are open for the Holy Spirit to lead to all the truth. The Holy Spirit can also lead people to this site who are against the website like Judas who betrayed Jesus. Jesus accepted Judas as a diciple, even though He knew who Judas was. This might be a chance for people to find Jesus. We can also overprotect our peace. By overprotecting we might also forget that Jesus Himself is our protection. It is a big difference to freeze people from our presence than to love people from our presence. Jesus loved Judas til the end and Judas himself decided to leave. This is more a general post, not a protest of this particular situation. You might have followed the Holy Spirit in your decision, I am neutral. timo | ||
| Patti |
I would like to post a prayer for wisdom in how to approach those who seem most unapproachable. And for those who are truly in need of spiritual and emotional healing. We do not know what drives a person internally. We cannot know what kind of traumas they may have experienced in their childhood or more recent past that may have permanently damaged their emotional capacities. We may not know how to deal with those who may need professional help to learn to live in society. But with God all things are possible. My prayer is that God will either give me the right things to say to those in need or to enable the hearer to hear the right things. We are all children of God. And we must comfort those in distress. There is much distress in our very comfortable and complacent society. I pray that in some way we can be instruments of God's peace. For the sake of Jesus Christ. | ||
| Lydell |
Father God, we realize that all power and mercy is in your hands. There is nothing we can do to reach the hurting ones in our own strength. Their wounds go far to deep and are covered by far too much stuff for us to have the wisdom to know how to help them. But you do know that key that will unlock the door for each individual and free the captives. Lord, we are willing to be your servants today. Make us all sensitive to your quiet promptings of what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. Make us naturally people who step out and do the things that you want done to touch others with your love. Help us to be obediant to your direction without delay, because that needy person is waiting and hungry for your love. Keep us aware that someone is waiting on the other side of our obediance. Lord, thank you for your love that is reaching out to all men waiting to draw them to you. | ||
| Lynn W |
Well, jtree, you know me, I'm not afraid of controversy. Could you post the actual e-mail address? I'd like to check it out. | ||
| Wendy |
I would like to request prayer for my husband Tom. He left our fundimental Baptist church a few years ago when he got involved with an SDA Pastor that told him that he had deeper truth from the bible that the Baptists would never teach. This man has very skillfully manipulated Tom so that what ever he says, Tom believes . Since Tom has been involved with this church, he has comitted adultery, disowned his children and he has moved out of our home. I do not believe that Tom was ever truely saved. He knows what to say when confronted with the question of his salvation, and he witnesses to people all of the time. The trouble is it is fasle doctrine that he is preaching. I love my husband and my hearts desire is that he come to a saving knowledge of Christ and find true peace. I have been praying that the Lord would remove this pastor from Toms life because of the stronghold that is evident that this man has on my husband. It has also come to my attention that there is a woman that attends the SDA church that my husband is a member of. She is aware that Tom is married and that we are separated. Her mother is also a member and aware of the situation but has introduced her divorced daughterr to Tom and is encouraging a relationship. Today the daughter showed up at our place of business, obviously pursuing my husband. I would like to know where the SDA church stands on the issue of divorce. It seems that that is the direction that Tom is being counseled toward. He has been told that I am in rebellion to God and my husband because I will not follow his leadership and go to the SDA church. Please pray for my husband. our three teenage children and for me, that I will not stand in the way of God trying to work in Toms life. I would also appreciate any insight into the issues stated. Keeping my eyes on Christ, Wendy |
