PRAYER PLEASE

I don't know how to find my original thread by this subject that I began in 2010...I had asked for prayer for my 2 prodigal sons, and some have prayed much for me over the past 4 years or so....I just want to ask serious prayer again for my youngest son (22)....he is in a God-ordained crisis in his life, and he is in anguish and torment. I have been able to talk to him (rare) about it not being the crisis itself, but that the crisis is brought by God to break him. He is winsome and macho and self-sufficient in the natural. He acknowledged that he is broken. I believe he is close to surrendering to the Lord....MUCH prayer has gone to the throne for him. If you would, please pray that God would complete the work, and that the enemy would not snatch away this present moment. Thank you so much! God bless you!

Dear sister.....
Praying!!!!!

Be sure you are in my
Prayers ( and heart :-) )
love browny .

Jeremiah 29:11-13

11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Praying.

Thank you so much! It is unheard of that my son was texting me all day yesterday, and called me on his supper break from work. Our relationship has been strained because of his sinful lifestyle. He said that he knows only God can satisfy, but that he wants a certain thing desperately in his life, and that he was calling out to God all day yesterday and reading his Bible, and that he doesn't know that he wasn't bargaining with God. I am praising His name over and again. It is absolutely a miracle that we are even to this point. Still, the work is not finished....please keep praying if you are able. Bless you!

Will pray for your friend, Markus....oh how strong is the pull of the world! Yet God is greater....

(((We are praying)))

encouraged to hear of this awakening...praying

I am somewhat disheartened after spending much of the day with my son. I think he is in the mode of trying to bargain with God. He says all the right things, but is trying to make life happen for himself. Don't feel burdened to pray beyond if God reminds you....I will surely let you know on that glorious day when he enters the Kingdom....I take courage from the testimonies of how God reached young men like Brother Greg, and Keith Daniel, and Paul Washer....I know nothing is impossible with Him!

It might take one day, it might take ten years - entrust it to God, and I'm sure His grace will prove to be sufficient in every circumstance :)

I am just reporting in for any who are still praying, that outwardly at least, it seems last week's gains in my son's life have backtracked. He has gone from intense pain in his crisis (which at least gave lip service to seeking the Lord)to discouragement, even with a new job and a new car. He says "nothing is happening" in his relationship with the Lord. When I say I am praying that he will "get it" he says he's not getting it. Though he admitted last week that God was breaking him, when I remind him that God will go to any lengths to get him to surrender, and that the next crisis may be harder yet, he just says, "It's not that simple, Mom"....If anyone is still led to pray, I just wanted to give an update. Thank you for every prayer offered up!

We patiently wait on Him to finish what He starts. We pray with you for your son.

We know the will of God in this matter. Many times God will use these incidents to shape us, teaching us trust in Him. Hardest lesson to learn when you know a soul is at stake. I know.

I sometimes try to imagine what hell would be like - about drives you crazy, and to think people will actually choose to go there????!!!!! and some of them are you kinfolks...??? Lord have mercy.

Will continue to pray for you.

Sandra

Thank you all for your comments, and for your prayers. Just learned that he has been into some really bad stuff. My heart is just in anguish. You think you train them well, you try to model Christ. I am certain that I did not pray enough over the years. But when it comes down to it, it is between a soul and God....and the human heart is desperately wicked. Bless you all!

Thank you all for your comments, and for your prayers. Just learned that he has been into some really bad stuff. My heart is just in anguish. You think you train them well, you try to model Christ. I am certain that I did not pray enough over the years. But when it comes down to it, it is between a soul and God....and the human heart is desperately wicked. Bless you all!

You know, you can and should teach your children the wisdom of the Bible and be a living demonstration of His ways before them but in the end they will have to go through the same tests and trials and make the same mistakes that you made before they come to the realization that they desperately need Jesus Christ. Once they come to that realization and turn in truth to Christ, then He comes in like a flood and and fills the heart with His faith, hope, and love. How glorious is the God of our salvation!

In Christ,

What baffles me though, is that my husband and I were raised in moral, but unbelieving homes....We were saved as young marrieds, and distinctly raised our children to love the Lord and the Bible and as set-apart unto Jesus....quite a difference in upbringing with basically the same outcome.....ONLY GOD....

If anyone is led to pray, it seems my son's interest in spiritual things was short-lived. He is only 22 but has taken a position with a large company that is hugely pro-homosexual. He is leaving today for a 2-week training course in another large city out of state. He is being lured by big money and all the glitz and glamour. As a mother, I am panicked at his being alone in a hotel room for 2 weeks with his history of drink and women. I know of course, that God knows all about this and can handle it. I am asking for prayer that God will convict of sin and hedge him in and that he will not plunge any deeper into sin....Perhaps God will meet him in the alone hours while he is gone, and remind him of his Christian upbringing. Just wanted to ask for prayer if any of you are led, to pray as you would for your own child. He is very hardened and full of himself. A huge contrast to the brokenness I had seen several weeks back. Thank you so much, and God bless you!

Will pray...

For any who have prayed for our 2 prodigals...needing much wisdom (my husband) and God's intervention...22 y/o son about to leave our home and buy a condo in spite of counsel that this economy is not one to take on debt....it will lead to nightly drinking, womanizing...thinks he will live in another city M-F but home on weekends....However he is staying out nights even on the weekends. I believe at his young age he is addicted to alcohol. Worst is I think it is our older son (by 7 years) who is housing him for the overnights. I thought God was dealing with our oldest son by taking away much income, but that forced him to move in with a very wrong friend. My husband does not want to deal with this. Condo set to close May 15 and it seems it will seal his fate...I know God is over it all and is much bigger than this whole thing. If you are led, could you please pray that God would intervene and if possible, stop him from plunging much deeper into sin. And that my H would have wisdom and courage to deal with it. A dire situation affording God opportunity for much glory to His name. Thank you so much!!

LoveMeekHope,

I have released, and continue to release, my sons to whatever means God must use to save their souls. What mother would "let them go" deeper into sin without putting up a fight in the heavenlies against the powers of darkness that hold them captive?? That is the reason I again seek prayer from some of the saints here who have been praying for them since 2010. I am grateful for every prayer offered from the bottom of my heart....I will have a praise report one day...

My goodness, you don't even know me! I was asking for prayer....

I will continue to pray for you.

Rdg

Thank you so much to any who have prayed....

I am responding to LoveMeekHope....I almost didn't post b/c it is easy to have misunderstandings on this forum. I post very little on this site because more often than not there are responses that are contentious - this leaves me emotionally drained which I don't have time for.

That said, I believe we can always learn from or hear from the Lord via people's words to us. I spent a fitful night of sleep examining myself in response to your words yesterday. You do not know me....you do not know how God has been working with me and growing me through the trials in my family. I have sensed a bit of harshness from you in some of your other postings, and I just wanted to humbly suggest that perhaps your words could be seasoned with a bit more grace.

Regarding letting my sons "scrape their knee", I believe it is more dangerous than that. We have AIDS, we have out of wedlock pregnancies, we have drug and alcohol addictions that may take years or a lifetime to overcome. You wouldn't pass a drowning man without jumping in to save him or tossing out a life preserver. I believe my sons are at the point of drowning - that is why I asked for prayer.

As far as my continuing to release them to the Lord, it is no different than yielding ourselves afresh each day (indeed each moment) to what the Lord would do in our lives. Do any of us not have times when we "take it back again"?

I trust you meant well in your comments but they heaped a ton of bricks on me. I hope my words are not harsh in return. God bless you...

Let's be done, LoveMeekHope. I believe this is getting off-track when I was asking for urgent prayer regarding my son.