| Author | Message | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 993 Registered: 10-2004  |
Thanks so much all of you for your prayers and thoughts and comments. Thanks for the lyrics, Carol! Jeremy | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2646 Registered: 12-2003  |
Jeremy, I just saw your prayer request. I'll also be praying. Father, please be with Jeremy nad his family and direct them to the place You know they need to be. Please provide a place for the pets and a place free of mold or other health threats. Thank you for the blessing Jeremy is to all of us, and thank you that You are in the future and already have the place picked out for them. Please help them to be able to trust you, and keep their hearts at peace. Thank You. In Jesus' name, Amen Colleen | ||
| Javagirl Registered user Username: Javagirl Post Number: 75 Registered: 6-2005 |
Jeremy, arent ya glad God created our pets! You know if he cares for sparrows, he cares for the rest too! My prayers are joined with the ones above for you and your family and pets. JavaGirl | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1877 Registered: 3-2004  |
I am back!! MLB and I had a lovely cruise. Please continue praying for her and GAL, another sister. MLB still doesn't believe God, but she now calls our weekend together, in March 2004, her BURNING BUSH EXPERIENCE. I know God is working on her and her family. The family knows I love my sister. God, be with each request on the forum. You know best what each one has asked for sick family members. finding a new house and what ever the request is. You are a GREAT GOD and I love you very much. Thank you for Jesus. You are awesome. Diana | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 680 Registered: 7-2004 |
Welcome back, Diana, and it sounds like you had a delightful time. Allowing the love to flow with your sisters just might allow them to open up to some other things, and I know you will simply love them because you do it so well. | ||
| Belvalew Registered user Username: Belvalew Post Number: 681 Registered: 7-2004 |
One more thing, I'm departing for my Academy reunion weekend tomorrow morning. I'll be gone for about 8 or 9 days, will be driving alone, so I would appreciate your prayers for safety and traveling mercies. I'm also fully aware that there are going to be a fair number of former classmates at the reunion who have ceased to be SDA. Pray that we will let our lights shine, and our joy glow. Thank you, Jesus, for electing me/us since before the dawn of time. Belva | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 856 Registered: 3-2005 |
Father, we thank you for bringing Diana back safely from her cruise, and we pray for her sister in a special way, that you will open her heart to receive your forgiveness and grace. Please be with Belva as she travels to her Academy reunion alone, keep her safe, and give her words to speak to her former classmates, as she lets her light shine. We thank you for your electing grace in eternity past, and your keeping grace, Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Stan | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2657 Registered: 12-2003 |
Praying also, Belva. God will certainly use you. When we are His, He glorifies Himself through us. Colleen | ||
| Taybie Registered user Username: Taybie Post Number: 71 Registered: 4-2005 |
hi everyone...i feel so tiny in my request...but request i must. since my mom has been here with me, she has been depressed. she is battling life minus marijuana and it shows. i am constantly praying and asking God for strength, but the load get heavier each time i look into her beautiful but sad brown eyes. i am so low today. i am fighting tears and am tired of feeling useless. i have also decided to step away from the young man that i am in love with. i have no strength to try. it is so hard watching him continue in what he says he believes is wrong. i am also looking at him in a different light. i am losing respect for him, and that hurts. no offense to anyone in his shoes, but i feel so 3rd rate in his life and though he talks a good game, i see no change. i know that is not for me to determine, but it is how i feel. i went to church last night and got such a vicious headache that i left mid-sermon. i never do that. i felt strange doing it, but my head was throbbing and the speaker was yelling his message. i thoroughly understood his excitement, but my poor head did not. i am struggling to smile today. please keep me in your prayers. i really appreciate it. love you guys... Shontay | ||
| Melissa Registered user Username: Melissa Post Number: 1087 Registered: 7-2003  |
Shontay, I admire your wisdom in your relationship specifically and wish I had had the strength to defy all emotions and make the same decision years earlier. It would have saved me much more grief in the long run. Once you get away from the emotional attachment (which is real and I'm sure strong), you'll be able to see even more than you recognize now .... It is so hard to ignore what our heart says and following what we know is right in our head.... I pray for you and your mother. And no request is tiny. I understand yours more than you may know and there is nothing easy about what you may know in your head you need to do ... but convincing your heart it is right is no easy feat. But if it is any encouragement at all, I know that in the long run, that would have been the easier choice than the one I ultimately made (which was ignoring it and hoping it would get better...ha!) Six years later, I can tell you there is absolutely no change ... and often wonder if my presence in his life wasn't more of a hinderance in the long run as he dug his heels in even deeper in defense of his religion. I'd be more than willing to 'chat' privately if you think it might help at all. | ||
| Taybie Registered user Username: Taybie Post Number: 72 Registered: 4-2005 |
hi Melissa, and thank you. i think i need to talk to someone unbiased and untainted. all my friends lack that...they believe he and I will marry and have lots of cute, fat babies. i dont know if i see that anymore. please email me when you get a chance. anointedamazon@yahoo.com and thank you for the encouragement.  | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2665 Registered: 12-2003 |
Shontay, I am also praying for you and your mom. You are acting in courage and truth, Shontay. As painful as it sometimes is, the Holy Spirit's work in us is to open our eyes to what is real and to give us His strength to embrace the truth and make decisions based in truth. He will hold you together, and we are praying for you. Colleen | ||
| Taybie Registered user Username: Taybie Post Number: 73 Registered: 4-2005 |
I truly wish I had real friends here. But, i don't. Even my 'best friend' isn't real. I am so lonely and I get no relief from it. Everything i do, my Mom doesn't want to do. And when I leave, i am 'leaving her alone". Please pray for my sanity. My world has flipped upside down yet again, and it is making me wonder whether or not I have offended the Lord and am being punished. My thoughts are beginning to slide low again and though I no longer smoke or drink, i am SO tempted...nt only to ease MY mind, but to shut my mother's mouth! Did I make a mistake in bringing her here? Perhaps the Lord wanted her to go to that shelter. Maybe I brought her here for my own minds' ease. What an idiot! What if God didn't want my Mom to come here and I have gone against Him? NO WONDER I AM MISERABLE!! I am trying too hard to be a good daughter and have totally opened my little life tomy mother' every criticism and scrutiny. I was glad I am not on drugs anymore...that is until she started hounding me about getting her some. I hate that I am even saying this about her, because I know there are lurkers out there that know me and will use this against me, but I have no other place to go. I am alone. even my 'best friend' has forsaken me. suicide sounds sweet. too bad i am afraid of pain. i know that sounds foolish...but will SOMEBODY please out my shoes on and try understanding me??? thank you for the prayers. we NEED them | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 140 Registered: 3-2005 |
Jeremy, Belva, Shontay - I've added you to my prayer list. May the Holy Spirit guide each of you and bring you peace. -tisha | ||
| Tisha Registered user Username: Tisha Post Number: 141 Registered: 3-2005 |
Oh Shontay, I feel so moved by your sadness and confusion. I know God isn't punishing you for trying to be a good daughter. Even if it wasn't the best move to make - God will help you through this. Stand firm and call on Him - and I will call on Him for you when it gets just too hard to do yourself. These are the times that having a Christian Family (all of us Christians are your family) is so wonderful. Together, we hold each other up by the power of Jesus Christ with us. Don't try to "second-guess" what you should have done. Ask God what He wants you to do next. We all make mistakes while trying to do God's will. And besides, maybe this isn't a mistake - you may get just what you need out of this! And if she has to leave, also know that it is all for the best, it's God's will in His time! So, keep you eyes on Jesus, pray and keep asking us for prayer no matter how small you think it is. I know sometimes that is hard when things get so confusing. But the Holy Spirit is sent to comfort us, and He won't leave you, even when our earthly friends leave us. Just let Him hold you during this time. I love you as a sister in Christ. Please know that I want the best for you and your mother. I will keep you both in my prayers. | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 427 Registered: 5-2002 |
I like what Steve Arterburn tells people who are struggling to get through a difficult time: "Don't worry about what's gone before. Only worry about doing the next right thing." Praying for you Shontay! | ||
| Taybie Registered user Username: Taybie Post Number: 74 Registered: 4-2005 |
thanks guys. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 2667 Registered: 12-2003 |
Shontay, I agree with Freeatlast and Tisha above. God will take you from here, and He will show you His will. Now that you are a daughter of God, "being a good daughter" has a new meaning. Now your purpose is to honor Him and allow Him to work through you. Whether your mother stays or whether God clarifies that she should leave, your identity is in in Him now. You can trust Him to care for your mother according to His will. And you can trust Him to care for you as well. He gives us the parental stability that we all need in ways our human parents cannot. He asks you to serve Him in this situation, and He will guard your heart. Praying for you. Colleen | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 1888 Registered: 3-2004 |
Shontay, I, also, agree with Freeatlast, Tisha and Colleen. Sometimes we have to let go of loved ones and let God take care of them. I am not saying for you to do that with your Mom, but when people are addicted, that person has to "hit bottom" so they can decide that they want to give the addiction up. We cannot make them give it up. So I will continue to pray for you and your Mom and that God will let you know what to do. His way is always best, even when we do not see it. Right now He is holding you and your Mom in His awesome arms. He will not drop you. Just keep on praying and reading your Bible. His answer will come. God is truly awesome. Diana | ||
| Riverfonz Registered user Username: Riverfonz Post Number: 861 Registered: 3-2005 |
Shontay, After reading your call for help and prayer above, I am really concerned for you. I only plead with you to get urgent counseling and Psychiatric treatment immediately! If I am reading your post correctly, you are expressing suicidal ideation. This is serious Shontay, and don't consider it a sign of weakness to get the proper medical and psychiatric treatment for this disease. If I have misinterpreted your post, then please forgive me. Father, I pray that you minister to Shontay in a special way at this very moment. Lord, please heal her broken heart, and please lead her to qualified professionals to get the proper help in this situation. We pray this in the name of Jesus, the great Master Physician. Stan P.S. Shontay, feel free to email me with any questions about the medical aspects of this treatment. Check with Colleen to get my address. |
