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Praise God, Cholette!!! What a great 'witness experience' for your son!! Did he see the Lord's hand in all this? Am continuing to pray for you and your family!

Lovely Woman - Wow - you are having your share of challenges right now - I'm praying for you! Ordained and graduating soon? Congrats! I have to agree with you regarding relationships- especially in today's sexually mixed up world it can be difficult finding and maintaining a godly relationship. And there is a lot of temptation out there for Christians as well as non-Christians. Regarding your ex - This isn't a biblical quote but Shakespearian: He doth protest too much! Sounds like his paranoia over your innocent activities is really a symptom of his own guilty conscience? Hang in there - you deserve the Lord's great blessings! My personal experience is it has been so much more peaceful and blessed to be on my own than it was to be in an ungodly, painful relationship.

Unaday - How'd it go? Still praying for - God bless!

Thank you so much for all the kind thoughts - Blessings!

I wanted to share with everyone struggling right now - and I know there are many of us. Be encouraged! Hang in there - I pray your answer is coming soon! Sometimes it feels like God isn't listening and His timing will never come! Praise God - my prayers for my house to sell/lease-to-own have been answered - and with great unexpected bonuses for myself and others involved! Thank you to everyone who has been encouraging and praying for me. This struggle has been about a lot more than finances, but certainly finances too, since I became unemployed a few weeks before the people who had agreed to buy it backed out after two years. I was slammed with an overwhelming personal 'paralysis' (?) - and I think it was because it came to represent a culmination of issues: unhappiness experienced in the last years living there, the financial burden with not being employed or having the money to fix it up for a decent sale price, and most important - a period of correction I have been going through in my walk with the Lord that ironically, or maybe un-ironically - began seven years ago - July 12th, 2007. In January I had one of maybe a fistful of dreams in my life that I knew were from the Lord, and I didn't post it here because I hadn't re-connected here then, but now in retrospect, it looks like it has come to pass. And with more benefits to all parties than I had ever anticipated - the additional bounty just confirmed it was His work and His love! Anyways - I just wanted to encourage anyone who may be starting to doubt or lose faith that there is an answer from the Lord coming to you - that the Lord does love you and care that you are hurting and in need. Over the last seven years I have had doubt, anger, fear and a lot of pain, and this house issue returning really shook my faith in His love and intentions for my life. Ultimately, (and probably unreasonably), this house issue came to represent all that grief - and to me, it looked like one giant step backwards had occured. And maybe I'm mistaken, but it appears to me that the Lord met me at that level where I was at, and just to show me His love, answered that prayer with additional bounty of the Lord. Thank you, Lord Jesus & thank you again to everyone who encouraged me or prayed for me - God Bless -

Sorry to hear that! Will keep you up top on my prayer list - God bless!

Golden Eagle - I'm praying for you & your family. I'm in a similiar situation - have you considered doing a lease-to-own? Depending on your payments, it can make your payments and immediately provide you with some cash as a non-fundable down payment, which you can use to get into something more affordable for you? Just a thought - God Bless!!

Sandy is in my prayers - please let us know if there is any changes in her condition. God Bless!

Ravi - Thank you for bringing this to us - we will be praying for Leslie James and his family. Please let us know how he is doing. Bless you!

Awesome! I love hearing answered prayers -

You've got some great points - I will definately pray some more on it. I sure hope whatever it is, it's revealed soon. Many thanks for all viewpoints and prayers!

Thank you guys for your prayers and encouragement! Cholette, that would be way more than I even hope for if something like that would happen! It's encouraging to hear! I've been praying for the Lord's will for this house for some time. I thought I had found His answer when a couple who work for my church leased to own it for the last two years. It would be awesome for the Lord to use this house to bless someone else. The bondage conclusion is just how to me the house represents the misery and bondage of an ungodly choice I made despite a blatant warning from the Lord, that messed up my open, loving walk with the Lord - and consequently - all aspects of my life. Including financially - which using my home's equity, put me in financial bondage to this house. Almost everything else has worked itself out except this house issue, which is the one life-struggle that is able to topple me. Maybe I've rolled it into a Lord's judgement issue or something...? Thank you for encouraging me - this is a tough one that feels like it keeps coming back and will never JUST END!

Thank you, Lola - I appreciate it very much!

Brothers & Sisters - Please pray for me - I'm afraid I am losing it! I've been out of work on unemployment for a couple months and am making it, if it weren't for my lease-to-own renters moved out and I'm paying that mortgage with my rent and expenses, too. The house needs work - the obvious kind of work, carpet, paint, etc and it is just not selling. My realtor also has it on the lease-to-own market, and it's not getting any hits. I've handled a lot of challenges in this life, but this house has been my achilles' heel for some time, and honestly - it is the one thing that could send me over the edge. I realized this morning when I woke up at 10:30 on the couch where I have been laying since last Thursday, unshowered, and sobbing for days that maybe I'm headed for depression if I don't get it together. So, I'm showered and really trying to get going again. This house represents so much misery - lost marriages, failed pregnancies, lost career and then mortgages that make me financially enslaved to this building. If there is anything that could make me want to leave this earth - it is all wrapped up in this house and how it steals my peace. I can't give this thing away - I need prayers for a miracle! It will financially depleat me within a month or so, and I'm trying to buy a distributorship and put myself to work. I won't be able to do both. The last time this house issue became critical, I walked the house with oil and prayed and it's been a great dwelling for my last renters - so it's just me that has a problem with it. Please pray that the Lord will provide me with a miracle and release me from this bondage! Thank you -

That is such good news! God Bless!

Hi Latoya31 - My heart breaks for you - I have been there and will never forget the way that it feels. I am praying for you, and just wanted to share about an international bible-based ministry I've been volunteering with for many years called 'Divorce Care' that was very instrumental in my healing. They do God's work there. You can find groups at churches across America, or they will help you find a group if you contact them at www.divorcecare.com. God Bless You - You are in my prayers.

Hi ditte3 - Good to hear from you - I hope all is well with your family!! I've put your son on my prayer list - Here's praying for all good grades!! All the best -

Lord we lift this soul up to you and pray for his ears to hear your knock and ask you provide someone to help this person understand and accept your gift. Our prayers go out for the family members as well, Lord. In Jesus' name - Amen

Hi Dani - You guys are in my prayers - update us when you hear. God Bless -

Hi Debb - I'd like to pray for you - Lord, please give Debb the love and support she needs at this time. Help her clear her mind, Lord and push aside all enemy attacks on her peace, concentration and sense of self in You, Lord. In Jesus' name - Amen Good luck on your exam - let us know how it goes for you!

Wow - CBVirtuous - Those are excellent points, too. All are great points based on scripture and I just wanted to tell you that I'm in a similiar boat as you and feel like the plug was pulled and am sinking, too - and reading what you both have written has helped me with my perspective, too. I've been wondering lately where God is and why I don't feel His presence - and where my responsibility lies in all this - faith, holding tight, fasting and praying for answers, etc. And why I am not getting a response - or am I only waiting for the response I want to get, etc. As this time goes on, all waters get a little muddier and more difficult to travel through, and more confusing for me where faith fits into all this. Just reading about both of your knowledge and steadfast faith is amazing and encouraging me - so I just wanted to say thank you for sharing, and all I have is prayer right now - and you have mine. I wish you peace and answers - God bless.

God bless you, butterfly - I hope you let us know if you get your word from the Lord.

God Bless you - you and your mom are in my prayers, sweetie.

CBVirtuous - Your family is in my prayers. God Bless -

I pray you have good news, Ray - God Bless!