Changing Your Life to Help Change Others
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College life for many students involves way too much partying. That lifestyle looked appealing to Alice. She wanted the experience portrayed on television and the movies. For her, it meant joining a sorority and participating in all the extracurricular activities.
She had a church background. But Alice was too interested in getting the most out of life to worry about God. …Until she began meeting with a senior. They studied the Bible together with another girl in Alice’s dorm. Later that semester, Alice finally invited Jesus into her heart through prayer.
Because of her decision, Alice has an important impact on her friends’ lives. They see the joy she’s found in her new relationship with Christ.
Friend, when you turn your life over to God, you truly learn how to live.
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This devotional was written by Vonette Bright. Read more about Vonette: http://www.talk.thelife.com/authors/vonette/
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Our life does not change in order for us to help change others, unless we ask Jesus into our heart. It is only through His wisdom anD guidance that we can understand and desire to to love and change others. I am so glad the Holy Spirit convicted me on my knees to accept Him 35 years ago. I am not the same person. PRAISE HIM!!
2 Cor.5:17,18:”Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ…”
I didn’t truly know how to live till I knew christ personally. Even though I’m native american I can’t say I truly enjoyed the things God created. But now I do, As I look around at the things God made I know with out a doubt he can handle anything that comes into my life.The verse that spoke to my heart for years is 2corinthians 5;17 new creature in Christ; old things are passed away.That verse always reminded me of butterflies , so I put them in every room of my home, to remind me that I’m a new creature. So when I see butterflies any where It reminds me to thank Christ for being with me and changing my life.It’s kind of like God’s way of Saying ” hello, jackie, I’m Here” Yesterday when I was in my back yard praying so hard that God would help me make it through and not give up, when I looked up There were about8 or 9 butterflies around me. God is so awesome!!
My husband and children know about my butterfly “thing” so when they witnessed the butterflies come out of nowhere they started praising God to. I so often forget he’s working in my life and I don’t even know it. Thank Jesus for walking with me everyday of my life.
My Mom and Sister went home to Jesus in 1998 and 2001. (Dear Ami, I “understand” your pain & pray)… Both changed their lives in years before that homegoing, with the Lord’s help, in miraculous deliverences from alcoholism ..both made HIM “LORD” of their lives and changed those around them by their gentle, Agape ways, and allowed the Lord to shine through! They definetly changed me!..and others around them, too.. I “thought” I was a Christian, but these two dear ones defined that term and showed me what “dicipleship” with our Lord is all about. They lived “nonjudgmentally” and quietly “taught by example”. HE became so alive in them and made the rest of us want what they had! Both became Prayer Warriors, too! They were “childlike” in their faith, believing for the impossible, at times….and that,thankfully, rubbed off PTL..or I couldn’t handle things we are dealing with this day! Mama would tell us to have faith..that things would change in HIS Perfect Timing..But, that, one day in “the twinkling of an eye”, HE could change things! And it is TRUTH..Never give up, ladies! Today? I pray for a daily “renewing” from HIM..that HE will change me daily in areas it is needed..and, that I can, somehow, be a small bit like they were on this earth!
Jackie, am sharing this next thing for YOU. My Mom, Sister and I had a “thing” about Beautiful Red Cardinals. Mama, at end of her life, lived with my sister and her family ..and as her time drew near? She told her that after she made her transition, we’d see one of those beautiful Cardinals and be reminded of the love and prayers for us…Today! When things are tough as they sometimes are in the human realm? We ALL see a Cardinal..Sometimes more than one..And HIS PEACE comes over us! The day of my sister’s funeral? HE placed two especially beautiful Cardinals in the Holly Bush at our front door. Am convinced this represented my Sister and Mom! A Divine GIFT from the Lord to get me through that sad day… What a loving, caring Father..that HE brings us Butterflies and Cardinals..or whatever brings comfort. My Loved Ones “perfecting” (changing) in front of my human eyes has impacted my life forever and makes me want the same change every day in my life!! Thank you, Beloved Lord, for the gift of them and what YOU taught us.
Fran D. Just wanted you to know that you are such a blessing to me. God has used you words more than once to minister to my heart and encourage me. I find myself looking at God’s word sometimes as A student, learning who what when and where and not really knowing how to apply it to my own life. reading yours and june L’s comments on here really make me look at things “outside the box” and apply it. you have such a gift for encouraging and I thank God for you both.
Dear Jackie..
Thank you and remember that you encourage us, too! Today’s “Butterfly” sharing was beautiful and blessed my heart so much..and just multiply that to how many others reading that it blessed! June L and I are still “arriving”, too!! We all are until we get to sit at the Master’s feet in Heaven.. And, you younger ladies are touching and helping us, too!! God Bless you, dear one!! :)
Dear ladies,
I have been in complete “awe” lately as I have been given the blessed opportunity to spend time in these daily devotionals of ours. I cannot get over how wonderful it has been as we all open up our hearts to one another here in this safe meeting place of ours.
It has been a pure blessing that I came across this devotional site just a few months ago and with it’s help and the LORD working harder and harder in my life I truly have been changing more and more.
I never new how much GOD Given potential i had locked up inside of me when it came to encouraging others. Everyone else seemed to had seen it but I was to blinded to see it my self until I became more focused on my personal relationship with Chrsit.
Had i never began this journey of “CHANGE” i most likely would had remained on the broad road through life which leads to death but now that I have found the narrow path which truly leads to eternal life I SOOOOO much want to get others (LOST SOULS)to find it too. As I have been changing more and more, I have also recognizing that more blessed times of opportunity come my way so i could sow a seed or two into someone else’s life. Yet always remembering whom is behind it all “MY LORD” working his good works in and through me even if it is a little bit at a time. Good things take awhile to mature and come to it’s full maturity so what i am doing at this time is fine for I know in due season I will be making even more of a greater impact in other peoples lives. (THOSE WHOM ARE STILL LOST AND LEFT IN THE DARK)
I cannot get over this “change thing” for i tought that there was no possible way on earth that GOd could use me but BOY was i so wrong. Ladies “Keep on Keeping” in your walk with the Lord and at the we will all be rejoicing with him along with the ones that decided to come along because of what we might had said and/or done in their lives. We are all living saints, specially chosen and uniquely designed by God to go out and be a light to this world.
Barbara
Barbara C.
God has truly used this site and the ladie here. I have never really had a problem trusting God ((but not Completely till this year)) but I never trusted people , because of my past. The problem with not trusting people is that God uses people to help other people. Every comment on this site has touched me. Because God has used words,testimonies and the devotionals to open my eyes to his direction. It says words have the power of life and death and God truly uses the women on this site to spead life.It’s funny how you can feel the power of God through words on a computer from women you haven’t met, Our saviour is so awesome, Hearing how he works in other peoples lives makes me love him even more . Bless you barbara.
Jackie, Thank you for your kind words. I truly enjoyed your butterfly story and enjoyed Fran’s red cardinal story too. All the comments here help and encourage me every day. I realized years ago that one of my gifts from the Lord is to encourage others. Since it is a gift it comes natural for me.
A dear Christian friend went to be with the Lord last Thursday. Actually, his wife was even a closer friend and she and I worked together, and were roomates together back in the sixties. She married this guy (that passed) 37 years ago after he broke his neck in a swimming accident, and was confined to a wheelchair. This man was never bitter, was always smiling, made a career for himself, learned to drive, etc. His death caused me to reflect on his life, and how he had inspired me over the years. Like many others I have often wondered why God allowed this awful thing to happen to him. In talking with many others today and reading the testimonies of how his life inspired them, it started to make sense. God used this man’s tragedy to help change other people he came in contact with. It’s like the tapestry story, we don’t see the big picture until it’s complete, and the finished side is perfect while the making of it(backside)is ugly. I praise God for this man that is now with the Lord; “Absent from the body, present with the Lord.”
There are other scriptures that back this up, but I am too tired to research now. Romans 8:28 is one of them: “All things work for good for those that love the Lord…”
It’s been a long day. Good night ladies!
Dear June L,
So sorry about your friend’s husband .. but what life of victory he lived..just like yesterday’s devotional! The beautiful verse you referred to is in 2nd Corinthians 5:8..that says “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”..That is a wonderful comfort for those who’ve had a loved one go to sleep in our Lord. God Bless you ..and all you other dear ladies..It’s been a wonderful weekend of sharing from the heart! Amen!
It is such an inspiration to read all the testimonies here and know that i am not alone. There are so many things happening in my life that i don’t understand. Many of these things that are happening are hurting me so much that i feel that a part of me dies everyday. There are times when i think that i am already so ‘dead’ that i can’t possibly hurt anymore, then something else comes along and splinters those already tiny and fragile pieces of my heart that little bit more. I don’t know when i will ever be able to put the pieces of my heart together again, but at least i know that i am not dead yet, because i can still feel pain. That there is still a little bit of me that is alive, and that God can and will work with that little part of me if i will let Him.
I am so afraid and i feel so alone. I am doing all i can to look for the positives in all the madness around me. To find God’s hand in it and to see how He wants me to change and learn from the circumstances, to become the me He wants me to be. My life is a rollercoaster, a whirlwind of emotions and i am sitting here trying desperately not to cry. To hold on to all the promises that God has for me, to believe and to trust that no matter how bad things seem, that “All things work for good for those that love the Lord…”
He feels so far away now.. please pray for me.
i don’t feel like i can carry on. i am so tired, drained and empty. I want to give up, but i can’t. I promised myself that i won’t, BUT i don’t know how to carry on…
Dear Eve, I am so sorry you are this sad. DON’T GIVE UP! I can remember really sad times in my life and what helped me was (1) holding on to God’s promise Romans 8:28…continue to claim that promise (2) Prayed on my knees (literally), and talked to God like you are talking to us (3) Read His word and promises from the bible. Sometimes I would say:”speak to me Lord”, and begin reading wherever my hand opened the Bible, and it was what I needed to read, (4) went to church and praised God with other believers. Hope this helps. IF THIS DOESN’T YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEEK COUNSELING THROUGH YOUR MINISTER AT CHURCH. Praying God gives you peace and wisdom in dealing with this. Keep praying Phil 4:6,7 also. Bless you!
Fran, thank you for your kind words, and for that scripture research. I was so tired last night…I guess you could tell. However, I caught up on my sleep last night…and slept all night without waking up which had not happened for a few days. Praise God for the rest He gives us.
Blessings to all.
Hi my name is Nancy. This is the first time I have writen any thing in here. I have seen this website many times because I have devotionals sent to me in my e-mail. I use to be able to chat in the chat rooms but for some reason one day I couldn’t get into there to chat. I don’t have meny christian friends to talk to ( only two infact ) so I am putting my foot forward and writing you ladies. Satan uses my shiness so I think thats why I don’t have many friends so this a big step for me. I love the Lord so much and have been recenly doing the bible studies they have somtimes in the devotionals and that has helped me a lot. I prayed that the lord would fill me with the holy spirit and I found out that he was already in me the first day I asked the lord to come into my life. I just wasn’t totaly commited. Now I am and the lord is working on me about my shiness and Sunday istead of sitting in the back row I sat up front. I don’t know how much I can write in here so I will close. Bless you all and keep the faith.
Hi my name is Nancy. This is the first time I have written any thing in here. I have seen this website many times because I have devotionals sent to me in my e-mail. I use to be able to chat in the chat rooms but for some reason one day I couldn’t get into there to chat. I don’t have many christian friends to talk to ( only two in fact ) so I am putting my foot forward and writing you ladies. Satan uses my shyness so I think that’s why I don’t have many friends so this a big step for me. I love the Lord so much and have been recently doing the bible studies they have sometimes in the devotionals and that has helped me a lot. I prayed that the lord would fill me with the holy spirit and I found out that he was already in me the first day I asked the lord to come into my life. I just wasn’t totally committed. Now I am and the lord is working on me about my shyness and Sunday instead of sitting in the back row I sat up front. I don’t know how much I can write in here so I will close. Bless you all and keep the faith.
I was so blessed and touched by the testimonies today. I loved the butterfly and cardinal stories. God is so very good. I was also touched by Eve’s message. I have been there, knowing I had to go on but not wanting to. Don’t give up. I was not walking with the lord at the time I went through all this pain, and still find it something I just cannot share with anyone. But as I look back, I can see God’s hand on my life. He was there through it all, and he brought me to the place I am not where I have His peace and joy. So hang in there. He never lets us go. Prayerfully…Patti
oops!! That is where I am NOW. Praise The Lord.
Dear Eve,
Am lifting you to the Throneroom this very moment! Never feel alone because HE and HIS Angels are with you! We’ve all read your comments on here in past and know you are the Lord’s Property..The devil would like you to “think” all is impossible and you are dead..But we KNOW he is wrong!! Our Lord won’t “Leave nor Forsake You” Hebrews 13;5! Praying you feel that powerful Promise right now..He’ll send help your way ..and joining my prayers with June L and other prayer warriors on here that I know are reading and lifting! Follow June’s advice, too..If there’s a Pastor, or someone in your church that you can reach out to closeby? DO..and don’t feel ashamed about that. We are only humans and the Lord understands! June’s advice about “standing on the Promises” sooooo true! When you are upset, like you are now? It’s hard to even pray..But?!! The most amazing thing..Sometimes, all we do is say “Help, Lord”..And HE does! Will be lifting you all day and hope you can leave a note for us when you feel better…Remember, “His Angels” surround you right now..and Psalm 91 a great encouragement if you feel up to reading! With you in heart, spirit, and Many Prayers ..You are very much Alive that you “reached out” and you will STAY that way, too..beautiful Child of God! (((((((Eve)))))))
Also, Hello, dear Nancy,
Glad you’ve discovered this loving, praying comment section! Your comments sweet and sincere! These devotionals a wonderful uplift to a day…and many “kindred sisters” read and visit here! Admire you so much for doing the Bible Studies and reaching out as you just did! That shows your eager, loving heart towards HIM! HE loves us just as we are, too!..He made each one of us individually and wonderfully made! HE will use YOUR gentle, quiet voice in His Kingdom, too! Not everyone is extroverted..He puts a beautiful blend of all kinds of personalities in this world to be His “hands” and “feet”! Remember how Aaron was his brother Moses’ voice? Moses thought he couldn’t answer God’s call because he couldn’t speak..But, the Lord helped!! And HE does that for us all! Proud of you ..and you’ll have “MANY” friends here! Amen and Amen!!!
Thank you Pyampol (Patti)…Sooooo Much…This is what Eve needed rigt now!!..someone who has “been there” and with the Lord’s help survived it..God Bless you!!! Eve, her prayers can be very specific because she “knows how it is”! The Lord sooo good and with you that HE brought her here THIS day, to read, pray and leave this comment for YOU! He IS with You!!! Amen, Father!!!!
Dear June L, Patti and Fran D,
Thank you all for your wonderful words of encouragement and prayers. I am trying to keep my spirits up and look to Jesus whenever i start to feel down. This site has truly been a Sanctuary of Peace for me. A refuge to pour out my hurts and feelings and a place of comfort. You have all been God’s angels to me with your support and prayers.
It continues to be a difficult time for me as i now know that my husband has been cheating on me emotionally. How far he has gone physically, i honestly don’t know. He has been lying for a long time and has also withdrawn from God. I feel so cheated and betrayed. It is even more painful because he doesn’t feel that what he has done is wrong. He lives in denial and selfishness. I want to fight and hold on to my marriage, but at the same time i am so tired and i don’t know if i will be able to trust again.
I am at the crossroads and i don’t know which way to turn.
Dear Eve,
We’ll all keep praying. Can’t even imagine the hurt of all this and how hard it has to be on you..But you are HIS Daughter and HE won’t ever “leave nor forsake thee”..Hebrews 13:5! We had the most awful day here, too, over circumstances we have no controll over..Am lifting us all and Believing for a better day tomorrow! Am proud of you for writing in tonight..because know it was hard. Just know someone is praying right this moment for you!! (((((((Eve)))))))
Ladies, Have been up all night here. Trouble sleeping then my 6 month pregnant daughter-in-law calls and says she is at the emergency room with my 30 year old son. He has a severe headache. They are doing CT scan…and she will call back. I PRAY, AND PRAY, AND PRAY. 4 HOURS LATER HE CALLS. IT IS A MIGRAINE, AND HE IS ON HIS WAY HOME. Praise God.
Hi Ladies I am sorry that I submitted two comments but I forgot as you probably noticed to check my spelling whoops. I was in here for the first time and was nerves ,sorry. Fran D. thank you so much for your encouraging words. I do believe the lord can use all of us no matter what our personalities are. Eve I will help you pray about your husband. June L. I know what it is like having migraine head aches I also suffer with them will help you pray for your son in law. May I ask you all to help me pray for my children that they will long for more of Jesus in their lives. They are born again Christians but they won’t go to church if they don’t like the speaker or what series is being presented or if my daughter’s husband doesn’t go to church she doesn’t. I believe there is something in every sermon for every one even if it is one sentence. God bless you all have a beautiful day in the lord.
Bless all you, dear Ladies, so many beautiful reports on here today! God bless you, June L, and soooo grateful for the wonderful Praise Report about your son. Know your prayer’s “pierced the ceiling”..We’ll all be “in agreement” for that headache situation, too! Your kind encouragements and prayers bless us all..Now we implore Him to bless your day!!
Nancy!! Your wonderful “voice” in Him already encouraging and contributing..Praying for your children and know that you’ve raised them “in the way they should go” and they will always return, too!
Thank all of you so much..so many wonderful “telegrams from the Lord” this morning! He has spoken through many today! Amen and Amen!
Nancy, Thank you for your prayers and praying for your children. It was my son with the headache, and He has been unchurched for several years. Recently, he acknowledged that he needs to be in church, and will start soon. I pray this headache will draw him to do what he knows he needs to do. I try not to push he and his wife, but am praying and relying on the Lord to give them the nudge they need. Just keep praying for yours too, and God will answer. Praying for God to heal you from migraines too. Bless You!
Dear beautiful ladies (especially Fran D and June L) for being my prayer warriors and virtual angels. All your prayers and hugs have lifted me. I pray now for our good and heavenly Father to “Show me Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me. For You alone are God my Saviour, and my hope is in You all day long.” Psalm 25:4-5 And i will ‘cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you’. 1 Peter 5:7
My husband is in denial, living in the flesh and absorbed in himself. I am being blamed for everything even when i’m not at fault. I can only continue to be patient, walk humbly and to trust in God’s plan, and pray for the restoration of my marriage and for my husband to return to God. To pray for wisdom, for revelation, for deliverance, for forgiveness, for healing, for protection and for love. I will ‘trust in His power and hold on. He will give you the strength to keep from falling.” Isaiah 40:31
In the desert of my pain and grief God has provided an oasis of grace for me in all of you. Please continue to keep my husband and i in your powerful prayers.
Fran D, i hope you are having a better day today. You are an amazing woman of faith and strength. I thank God for you!!! (((FRAN)))
June L, praise God that your son is feeling better and with your unwavering love and prayers for him, i’m sure he will return to God very soon. God is calling out to him and he knows it. Sometimes the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Hope you have managed to get some rest. As you suggested, i asked God to speak to me and opened my bible.. the passage was Proverbs 2. It confirms much of what i already know about the situation that i am in. My desperate prayer is for wisdom for my husband. Please pray with me. You are a wonderful gift to those who know you. I thank God for you too!!! (((June)))
God Bless YOU, Dear Eve…
Your beautiful words made me shed tears just now! I’d come in to shut down our computer for night..and was sooo blessed to read your sharings…and, “see” the Lord giving you PEACE in the midst of your situation there! Isaiah 26:3 is sooo true..As we keep our eyes fastened on HIM..Peace will follow!.. And, it cheers me (and will June L, too, her sharings bless me, too!) to see YOUR faith in the midst of this challenge..HE will honor that, dear one! Prayers are ongoing, too..and HE answered one of mine earlier..as had asked HIM to let us know how you are doing! See how faithful and good HE is?!! June L’s advice was so good to open up that Bible..HE shows amazing things..HIS WORD, love letters to us HIS Children! I hope you have a Promise Book, too. When things get tough? Going to one of those helps so much!
It has been a better day here, too. We are standing firm on HIS Promises and believing for what seems impossible in the natural? But in the Spirit (and by HIS HUGE SPIRIT)..We know this mountain WILL move..claiming Mark 11: 23-24 and speaking to it in powerful Name of JESUS..Just like you are doing!! We get our Promise book out here and start praying them to the Lord and claiming Victory! When you read HIS Promises, faith does build! You’ve seen me leave this website before and left it on today’s devotional? But there are encouraging prayers at this website that help your private prayer times:
http://www.alighthouse.com/healing.htm
It helps me to just go there and read and my prayer language starts then, too! No matter how challenging things are? Prayer invites HIM in and starts “healing” all around us!
Rest well dear sister in the Lord and Thank YOU (((((((Eve)))))))
Eve, your description of your husband is so much like mine, and I do relate. Yet, I am thankful that our relationship has draws me closer to the Lord. I constantly pray for Him and have learned to “Let go and let GOd” handle each situation that comes up.
Praying God will continue to restore your marriage, increase your faith, and draw your husband to him. God bless you!!
Good morning ladies. What a beautiful day the Lord has made. He also made the heat so please pray for me today because I work in a factory and it is going to be very hot in there. June L. I am glad that your son is listening to the Lord and is going back to church. We need that fellowship with other believers. Thank you for your prayers for my migraines to be healed. Some times they are so bad all I can do is take medicine made for a migraine, go to bed and cry out to the Lord to take it away. Eve I will help you pray for your husband. God said where two or three agree it will be. So be encouraged and look up for your prayers will be answered. All of you have a blessed day in the Lord and keep cool.
Dear Nancy,
Praying for that heat (we have it here, too, and understand firsthand!).
Also? Am asking the Lord to heal those migraines forever! HE IS the HEALER..and is more than able! “Father God, be with your servant Nancy and in your powerful name, I ask healing for her migraines. NOTHING too hard for you (Jeremiah 32:17_… Am standing today on your Promise in Isaiah 53:5..that by YOUR Stripes, Nancy IS Healed”! Also, Lord answer her prayers for her children. Thank you for this, Father, and we believe before we see the manifestation!! (Romans 4:17)! Hallelujah!!!!!
Nancy, I have lifted you up in prayer, especially that it will be a “cool” day for you.
It took years of praying and waiting for my son to admit he needs to be in church, so to God be the glory! He was raised in church and Christian schools. But, having one Christian parent and one not probably complicated his decisions somewhat. Then you can do everything right and they still stray. So glad God desires to walk with us and intervenes to draw us to him. I didn’t even have 1 Christian parent,,,yet He saved me.
My husband and his family have a history of migraines, and the older they get the less they have them. Things will be better for you in the future, especially with the Great Physician on your side. God bless you!
((((((FRAN))))))
(((((JUNE))))))
Thank you ladies! If there is one good thing that has come out of the trials that i am going through, it is a closer relationship with God, and learning to ‘let go and let God’. God is good and faithful to those who love HIM. He will bring me through all of this, as He will all of you.
Instead of telling God how big our problems are, we should be telling our problems how big God is! With God all things are possible!!! Alleluia! :) Be strong in the Lord and His mighty power. (Ephesians 6:10)
Keeping all of you in prayer. :)
Good morning ladies. I hope you are all well this morning. Thank you all for praying for me about the heat. The lord answered through our supervisor. He let us have extra time off on our breaks. Praise the Lord. I have a prayer request for one of my Cole workers. She is having a ruff time now with her husband. He drinks and is on drugs. He says terrible this to her and her children. He has warrants out for his arrest. She is very fearful for herself and her children and is trying to either find another place to live or get him out of the house. I told her to call the police and they will come get him because he has warrants out for his arrest but she is afraid to.
Nancy
I ask that all the women join me in prayer that my three daughters realize who they are and whose they are and that they allow the Lord to introduce bible beleiving and living young men into their lives. Poor choices and wanting love in all the wrong places has caused so many injuries into thier lives. I have taught and lived the life of Christ before my children and the very thing you teach them against is what they found or found them. Thank you.
Dear Ann,
Praying for your daughters and know every Prayer Warrior on here will do the same! Draw strength this night from the fact that you raised them in the “right way to go”..and, sometimes, they temporarily “depart” like the Bible says in Proverbs….but those “seeds” you planted will draw them back! Praying “earthen harvesters” into their pathways… HE will draw them for you! HE will put those who will remind them of the way you raised them! Be with Ann, Father God, and answer her prayers and give her Peace while you work in her daughters’ lives. Protect them while you do, beloved Father.. Amen and AMEN!!!
Dear Ann,
I pray that your children will take note of God’s word. I too am a mother of two and I continue to Pray that God will direct them into knowing him and his truths in regards to how one should live.
The bible warns all of us to not be unequally YOKED and none of your childrens relationships will work out for them if they do not take this to heart. I feel your pain and sorrow for I just so much wish that I could control and tell my already grown up daughters what to and what not to allow in their lives. Just today, my oldest left my home filled with tears for she is so heavenly burdened by the dysfunction that still is so actively alive within our family close and extended. The only thing that I could say is that you need to detach from it in order to not allow it to do harm in her life.
We all love our children so much just as God loves all of us and this day i learned one more valuable lesson after speaking with my daughter and calming her down from things that are not hers to deal with. That being how ashamed I felt by still having such a big familiy that chooses to live life the way in which is not at all proper in God’s eyes. Yet the only thing that I know to do is pray, pray,pray for them all and to try to set a godly example for them all yet not get sucked into such chaos that God already delivered me from.
Father God may you draw Anne’s children to you more and more as well as my two precious ones too. In Jesus name I pray, Amen
Barbrara C
Ann, What beautiful prayers have been lifted up to the ONE who loves you and your daughters sooooo much. I prayed the same prayers for as I read over them. Thanking Him in advance for what He is going to do. So many of our children are in the same place, not walking with the Lord, because they listen to the worlds way, and not the right way. God often reminds me that I also went against my mother’s teachings of right and wrong. However, she didn’t teach me about God and salvation, so I made sure I taught mine. But my one and only son still is not walking with the Lord. But he is getting closer. In the meantme I support him with love, and pray without ceasing.
Nancy, praising the Lord that your day was “cooler”. PRAISE HIM! I couldn’t help but weep when I read about your co-worker. Drugs and alcohol are serious problems and I certainly have never had to deal with them. But, the one that loves her soooooo has wisdom and power to do something
great for that family. Praying that he will protect her and the children as He works a miracle in this man’s life. HE is able!
I too have three girls. My youngest is already making plans for her twenty eighth birthday which will be next July. She says she wants to have an Hawaiian party. She is a born again christian but she plans on having an alcohol beverage there along with some nonalcohol ones. Even though she says she is only going to make one batch of the alcohol drink and when it is gone it is gone I tried to convince her that it wouldn’t be a very good christian testimony. Please pray and tell me what you ladies think.
I Need PRAYER..
Please help me I need prayer support. I am in severe depression due to a soul tie I allowed in my life. I divorced my husband 7years ago due to abuse issues for our 24yr marriage. To make life worse I fell deep in love, and sin with another man. “He swept me off my feet” However after a couple years I seen red flags and realized it wasn’t where the Lord wanted me, and I felt burdened to return to my husband. I did remarry my husband in april’06. I still have love, and desires for this man and its destroying me I have prayed, and asked others to pray. I have to truly let go of this man, and be stronger than ever before in God’s will, and learn to love, and respect my husband. I also started smoking cigarettes, and drinking while with this man.. I need to let go of all this sin I can’t live like this anymore. I need prayer, and deliverance.. God Bless, Cheryl, Thankyou. I need to get healthy spiritually, physically, mentally, and help others for the Lord. I NEED peace..If I can help ONE woman avoid this trap it will be worth all the pain..
My husband is still abusive, even though he has changed in other areas. My “character defects,” or ” sins” play into this, too. He so wants to be in denial about his abusivness that he keeps falling back into it. He has not done any physical damage to me in quite a while, but he can still be cruel, controlling, and manipulative.
He threatened to put me through a wall tonight, and he has had me pushed up against a wall 2 or 3 times in the last several months, and he has punched or hit things, including something in my hands recently. So he might be escalating.
So, although some of my misery is self-generated, it isn’t all. If this is true for you, too, Cheryl, I pray that you have, or get the tools to deal with it. Pray that I use mine wisely, too.
If your husband is no longer abusive, praise God, and pray than mine gets better, too.
For Dianne and Cheryl,
Dearest Lord JESUS..It is heartbreaking reading the pain above that your beloved daughters, Dianne and Cheryl are going through in these challenging marital circumstances. They are precious and am asking in your powerful name that they be protected from physical abuse..That you will surround them with your protective Angels..and give guidance as to what they are to do in their individual circumstances. These are serious problems, dear Lord, but not bigger than you and am believing and asking in JESUS name for relief, protection and help for these two dear ones that you love so much! Amen, Amen and Amen! We Praise you, Father, and entrust this to you for solving. (((((((Dianne and Cheryl)))))))