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Praying!!!!
Praying in the Spirit with you for your family!
I have 2 parents that are elderly and it is almost there time. I pray and cry because not only are they my parents, but my best friends.
This is not an easy thing, but we cannot force others into God's Kingdom. Everyone before they die knows the Truth of God's existence and what He has done for them. God is not one to let someone go to their death bed without knowing the Truth.. I just don't believe that. And I am proof that God himself will even come to find one that is lost, because HE came to me when I was NOT looking for Him. It is up to each person that is invited whether to accept or decline God's amazing invitation and offer of grace. My dad.. can hear many things.. but he struggles with letting go of the control to God. My mom.. hear's nothing. She lives in a world of denial that I alone cannot get through and so, I have to KEEP praying for her while no matter WHAT keeping my own walk with God. what does it accomplish my friend if WE choose to walk away from God as well? We will not be with them anyhow. You and I must KEEP on with the LORD. I will tell you something though as one who works with those that are dying.. Love them... and you would be surprised how many people come to know Him just before their last breath. read Matthew 20: 1-16 and KEEP on walking with Christ. Also.. Have you ever read John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress? That will help your faith as well. Love in Christ. Praying with you for you and your dad!
Hi Deb...
First.. a HUGE HUG with tears.
Second: Let me also put myself 'out there'.
I live with what looks like a 3rd eye on my head, or at least that's what I call it.. because it's a bump and a big one. I am not sure this will apply to you, but it came to mind when I was reading your post.. so let me be honest about.. 'me.'
I was led to Las Vegas. I actually did not expect it at ALL! and it is the LAST place I wanted to EVER be. But GOD had other plans than I.
I wanted to live in my home on the other side of the country. Because we were also led to belive the lies of 'someone's word' we lost our home. There were reasons I did not want to come out here.. besides just not wanting to move to Las Vegas.. but.. the LORD said; "Go!" and so here I am.
I have been one.. most of my walk with GOD.. to use GOD to get what and where I wanted to be in life. (Remember..i am talking about me).
I would pray and ask for 'my will to be done' even though the words were "Your will be done"
I spent a lot of time wrestling with GOD about a lot of stuff and running into my own dreams and finding the DOORS OPEN and then SLAM SHUT on me. (Hence the Bump in the middle of my forehead)
It wasn't until I came to Las Vegas and experienced the BUMP over and over again... that after so many years, I finally said: "Okay GOD... what's Up with this?"
HE then.. let me know that It was HIS will HE was wanting me to look to HIM.. that my dreams were not His and that I could not DO ONE THING without HIM.
I finally SAW what HE was saying. All of my walk with Him I was TRYING instead of trusting.. Running instead of resting.. struggling instead of praying and asking Him for HIS will for me and for this life He paid for.
I finally.. surrendered to resting and trusting in HIM for ALL things and dying to myself for His will.
He stripped me clean from the inside out in the last year and a half and I am no longer the person I was.
Now.. He leads the dance and I try and stay in step with Him. I find I have no worries at all no matter the circumstance because I am positioned within His will and HE makes my way.
Like I said.. I am not sure if this has anything to do with your walk or not.. but know this too.. that NOT one thing is wasted with GOD.. inside all that you have been through there is a PURPOSE happening whether you see it or know it or not.. and GOD will make all of it work for your Goodd, the good of others and for His Glory. Isaiah 45:3 (felt to share that verse with you.) Praying with you!
Praying your son's steps are ordered of the LORD because HE delights in his way.
Praying with you and for my son as well!
Please keep our family in your prayers. for we are trying to keep faith and grow closer to GOD in the coming year and more to come. Thank you to the SOS family.
Watch the movie "Fireproof" together...
Get the series "Love and Respect" by Dr. Emerson Eggrichs. If you watch the whole series this should stop the crazy cycle for you, it did for us!
Watch the movie "FIREPROOF" together...
Both the movie Fireproof and the series "Love and Respect" by Dr. Emerson Eggrichs have helped us!
Rent the movie Fireproof and or buy it and send it to him to watch!
Watch or read (workbook too) "Love and Respect" by Dr. Emerson Eggrichs. It helped us and now we are teaching it in small groups.
Really great to see. Thanks for such a great stuff........
I'm a 15 year old girl that has no idea who you are, who your son is, or what exactly your family's situation is, but I have faith that your son will accept Jesus into his life. I have faith that Jesus WILL break that chain of addiction that the enemy has bounded your son with. I have faith that your son WILL be delivered. I serve an ALMIGHTY GOD that has no limit and does the 'impossible'. Have faith & believe that Jesus will do these things. Place your son in the hands of Jesus. God bless you.
I have been smoking for 20 years, may we pray for each other, since we pronounce our names the same we can remember each other. I will quit with God's help, and you will too. Believe you can......phillipians 4 13
God is so much bigger than our addiction, read the Isiah 40, the whole chapter explains how big God is
Thank you SO much that will be powerful-I will hold your sons up in prayer too.
God Bless
I find that I usualy don't make goals. I seem not to really accomplish anything. This year I want to grow more in the Lord, I do run the spudman triathalon, last year I did that and also I ran in the City of Trees half marathon in Bosie. I want a better understanding of what God wants me to accomplish for him
Pray for me to get a closer to God!!
oh my goodness. i cant imagine what this family must be going through. i almost lost my daughter to a very similiar accident 5 yrs ago. my prayers are with you.
my sons are also addicted to weed. they have all the reasons for it being ok. I will stand in prayer with you.
I share your heart for my own family as well. I pray, try to model His love (imperfectly) and wait upon Him. It's like sowing seeds, watering and waiting for a harvest.. while not allowing the weeds to get in or the pests. We tend on purpose the gardens we are given the best we know how, but ultimately it is the Lord and they that will bring forth what is to be in due time. We rest and trust when we have done all we know to do with His leading. breathing prayers for both our families today.
I share your heart for my own family as well. I pray, try to model His love (imperfectly) and wait upon Him. It's like sowing seeds, watering and waiting for a harvest.. while not allowing the weeds to get in or the pests. We tend on purpose the gardens we are given the best we know how, but ultimately it is the Lord and they that will bring forth what is to be in due time. We rest and trust when we have done all we know to do with His leading. breathing prayers for both our families today.
Praying..
Praying with you for your mom, dad and family!
