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Dear Abigail, Let me tell you I know exactly how you feel. I went though this with my parents when I was about your age. When there is no peace in the family it's one of the most awful things that can happen to us. My parents turned from being a loving couple that never said a rude word to each other =for many many years to two people who kept fighting and arguing constantly. They stopped "understanding" each other. My dad too kept running out and when he threatened with divorce once more I thought "I don't care. Let them divorce as long as this horrible arguing will stop". In the end they did not divorce and are living together still. But let me encourage you not to feel desperate or take any responsibility for their actions. Like you said, it takes two to make it work and it takes two to argue. I feel like your dad did not abandon his family, he just got out of the situation that he simply could not handle. It might seem like adults can handle anything if they try, but in reality there are so many situations that are way above our heads and the only thing that can help us is from God alone. So please don't blame your dad or your mom (and most important yourself) for whatever has happened. Even though the situation with your mom and dad seems like out of control, but trust me, even though we don't see, feel or understand it God IS in control and He IS keeping His Hand right on it! I am telling this from my own experience! And this alone gave me huge inner peace and rest and also gave me strength to stand in faith for change. What I would suggest to do is to daily speak God's peace and joy to flood into your home, your household, into your parents' hearts and minds. If it looks like a fight is about to break out, what I do is get into my prayer room by myself and start releasing the Angels of God to minister Peace into the situation, I pray for the Spirit of Peace and Spirit of Joy to come in, I pray for God's Grace to envelope everyone in my household and guess what - NO FIGHT or arguing happens (I do that in the situation with our kids, because they sometimes push us beyond limits :-) For yourself to get rid of the pain caused to you I would strongly suggest to cry out to the Lord to simply take this pain away. I have done this and trust me, it WORKS every time. Just keep crying out to Him to take away this pain completely - to heal the wounds. I've done this numerous times and it never fails. I am not talking about days or weeks, I am talking hours. It's like one minute you feel like every cell in your body hurts like crazy and the next minute - it's GONE. All you feel is peace and no pain at all. The first time it happened I was stunned! I was like "What has just happened?! How is this even possible?!" Praise God! It does work. Just don't stop asking till it's gone. If these lying feelings of pain try to come back, just start crying out again. Praise God, they will leave! God is so awesome and He loves you so dearly, He adores you and both your parents. He will never leave you, He is with you through everything and as soon as we cry out to Him, He always responds. God is so awesome, I don't even have words to express. Sorry this is long. I am praying for you and your family! I decree that no weapon formed against you or your household shall prosper, in Jesus' Name! I release the Angels of God to minister peace and restoration to your heart, mind and emotions as well as your mom and dad. Whatever the devil is trying to steal and destroy, I call redeemed by the Blood of Jesus, restored and made whole, in Jesus' Name! I pray for God's divine protection like a a wall of fire all around Abigail's family and a canopy of fire above them. I decree that God hides them under His wings and pinions and that they are safe and enjoying peace and loving family relationship, fully inaccessible to any evil, in Jesus' Name! I give all the praise and all the Glory to God, our Heavenly Father, Graceful and Merciful to all of us at all times! Amen and Amen!

Father, I lift up Jasmine before Your Throne of Love, Grace and total Salvation. I ask You, Lord to touh Jasmine righ now and let Your healing anointing flow throughout her entire body and restore it to complete wholeness - nothing missing and nothing broken, in Jesus' Name! I pray that all the issues come out to the light, I pray that You give the medical doctors and nurces the needed wisdom and knowledge to minister help for Jasmine. I declare, O Lord that we do not rely on the doctors for complete healing, but only on You, Father! I decree 1 Peter 2:24 over Jasmine right now and decree that by Jesus' Stripes she was healed. I command Jasmine's body to get in line with the Word of God and receive the healing that is flowing into her right from the Throne of the Living God, in Jesus' Name! I declare that NO WEAPON formed against Jasmine shall prosper, in Jesus' Name! I call her healed and healthy! In Jesus' Name! Amen and Amen! Jasmine, no matter how bad it might look or feel right now, keep calling yourself healed and restored. The manifestation WILL come! God bless!

Hi Daisy, Thank you very much for standing in prayer with me! Your prayers are much needed and very appreciated as things are tough at work at times! May God bless you richly!!

Hi Mark, I am standing in agreement with you, in Jesus' Name, for your niece to get this hat (very cute one!!) replaced! Just a thought, since you have such a clear picture of this hat, as a backup plan, you can find someone who is good at knitting and ask them to make one just like that. These hats are very popular and I imagine it won't be hard to find someone who can make a very good quality job. When my step-son was little (5 or 6) I had to do a "switch" like that with his toy clown. He did not part with it day or night and wore it out so badly that I had to basically make a new one practically identical to the old one. He never noticed it was a different one (just that one day it was old and the next one it became new again :-) ) He was very happy! I had to do it about 6 times before he grew up enough to put it away :-)

Did it look like this by any chance? http://www.animalhats.us/products/40-knit-owl-animal-hat.aspx http://www.etsy.com/search?includes%5B%5D=tags&q=child+owl+hat - any owl hat imaginable (pages and pages of them) :-) You can probably find it online I am praying that the Lord gives your niece her heart's desire!!

Mark, I wanted to share this quick testimony with you. My husband used to come home after work and tell me about how their management is making working there almost impossible. The are placing almost impossible demands on people who already are working 10-11 hours a day (and only get paid for 8 of them by the way). The tension was practically unbearable. I started asking God for peace for my husband at his working place (as well as for all his co-workers), I asked God for the unmerited favour for my husband from God and from people, from his bosses at work. Before long my husband's report at the end of his working days has changed dramatically from horror stories to "it was quiet today". Praise God! He comes home with no tension or stress. halleluiah! What more, all the upper management people who were extremely cruel with the staff ARE LEAVING one by one. God is so amazing! When they came it looked like there was NO WAY on earth they would leave and yet, they are now. The last one out of 3 is leaving shortly. And my husband is getting compliments after compliments from his bosses about his work. He is receiving favour! Amen! So in your situation, you can just ask God for unmerited favour for yourself at your working place and be moved to another position wherever you will be happy. No matter how impossible it might seem at this point, God is so awesome, He can change everything and before you know it w=you will be far away from stress and hardships just soaking in God's unmerited favour! In Jesus' Name I am asking the Lord for amazing, unmerited favour for Mark from God and men (his bosses at work - old and new - as well as co-workers) for miraculous promotions and raises. I am asking God for physical strength as Mark goes to work tonight to not only easily handle t=his working environment but enough left over to not be tired or weary after work and accomplish everything he has planned for his day according to God's Grace and Riches in Glory in Christ Jesus! Amen! Keep standing on this, Mark. I know it works! God bless!

Mark, I am definitely praying for you to receive wisdom and guidance as to what to do in this situation as well as for God's Grace and the perfect job position for you since neither of these two jobs are making you happy. I decree that there IS the prefect job for you and that God has opened the doors and made all the divine connections for you to receive! I pray that by His Grace your time is multiplied and you are blessed with plenty of time to spend with your Lord daily! Amen!

Dear Lindyloo, Don't be desperate! You don't need to feel like that. You are NOT ALONE! Praise God! God is with you and He loves you, your sister and her daughter. I used to feel just like you till recently when I received the revelation of how much God loves us. Ephesians 2 it says (verses 4 and 5 Amplified Bible): "But God--so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us, Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved ([a]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation)." See, God loves your niece Andrea with INTENSE LOVE! Not just some love, not warm love, but INTENSE. One of the definitions of the word "intense" is this: Existing in a high degree; forceful or extreme! So His Love is FORCEFUL, it takes extreme actions to deliver us from trouble. And this is not just for those that are saved already (although we too need the same degree of His love!). It's for sinners also. Look at what God's INTENSE love did for us: "He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved" Why did He do this? Because we were so great and worthy and deserving this? NO, He did it to "Because of and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us". So you can just pray peacefully and not fearfully or desperately for your niece Andrea putting her name right into these verses and standing on God's Love promise for her, believe that God is restoring her to complete wholeness, delivers from any wounds and her past into being a partaker of Christ's salvation. So see her as God sees her - a partaker of God's salvation no matter what your physical eyes are seeing right at the moment. Keep decreeing this promise and releasing it into Andrea's life now and as it has happened in spiritual realm the moment you asked (and I am joining in faith with you for this matter, in Jesus' Name!) till it manifests itself in the earthly realm (so we can see it even with our physical eyes). Remember when Jesus cursed the fig tree that did not have any fruit on it, the tree did not physically manifest its death the same second. The next morning though the disciples saw with their physical eyes the earthly manifestation of what Jesus decreed over this tree the day before. God bless, sister!

Maybe like this - :-))))) I can't wait to hear your testimony, Delightful soul!!! I was so amazed at His appearance and the whole experience was awesome and I totally believe it's just the very very beginning! I am just learning about His Grace and the more I learn, the more I delight in it!! GLORY!!!

O absolutely, Connie. I do not condemn him at all. I know he needs to be set free and I pray for God to minister His love to him so he will be whole and not hurting anymore. I absolutely believe that what is coming out of his mouth as a fountain from the wounded heart and he does not have to stay this way. Thank you so much for your prayers of agreement of faith! God bless!

- EXACTLY!!!! Awesome, Connie! HA! They think they can stick their junk into our faces and we can't say nothing back to them. Wrong! I will do that. They just sent us an e-mail inviting us over for supper again in a week, but I made up my mind and I am not going. My husband would have to go by himself. Maybe they would realize I am serious about this issue. Thanks again, Connie. God bless!

I was just thinking about this all day today (could not sleep last night either). As I was worshiping tonight, the Lord helped me to see what happened. My husband said a grace before the meal and we ate and then this man opened his mouth and started saying these things. And what really has happened was mocking God. I am absolutely horrified by this. We prayed to God asking Him to bless our meal and then turned around and allowed this abominable conversation to come out of his mouth at our table like there was no God watching and being present with us. I hate myself for this. I did stop it but not right away. From now on I will not allow this to happen EVER! If they want to be a part of this, it's up to them, but I won't. My husband probably does not quite realize what is happening. I will talk to him and lay it out as it is. It's not actually just my own feelings that are hurt. These things are not tolerable aroung my God Who I worship and pray to. So I pray the Lord for forgiveness for not standing up for Him as my husband and I should.

Awesome!! Glory be to God! He loves us so much!!! I want to scream it out From every mountain top Your goodness knows no bounds Your goodness never stops Your mercy follows me Your kindness fills my life Your love amazes me!!!! - One of my favourite songs! It ministered to me so much this morning!

Hi Daisy, :-( My husband already knows how I feel about this. He'll know why I don't want to go. I don't think he would hold it against me if I don't go. I can probably come up with some excuse (not the kids though because they are in their late teens now). But if I'll use it every time they invite us something is going to start as they so insist on both of us coming. I think I might have to spell it out for them, see if this works. One time I got out of the table in the middle of supper and went to the kitchen when he pulled out his laptop to look up some of his horrible slimy stuff online right in front of us. My sister in law thought I went to help her with the dishes. I said, sorry, I left because I can't stand Bill's talking about this stuff. She stopped him, but it did not last long. I mean how more clear can you be? I honestly feel that he simply can't control himself :-( The man needs serious help. I think I might have to talk to my sister-in-law and honestly explain to her why I can't come. If she thinks her husband can manage himself for the duration of supper, then I don't mind going at all. They are lovely people otherwise. I feel like I am going against God by putting myself into position when I hear this type of things. I know I am not responsible for other people's mouth but i am responsible for my ears, so I felt horrible last night. I felt like I let God down :-( And I totally hate this...

I was wondering if I could ask you for an advice. I have a family member - brother-in-law - that has a very dirty mouth. He not only swears, but keeps making extremely explicit and vulgar remarks constantly. I mean it's coming out of him like out of sewer. Even presence of our kids doesn't stop him. He is an older person and my husband said he's "calmed down quite a bit compared to what he was like before". But this does not help me at all. I can't stand being around him if you know what I mean. They were at our house last night for supper and I felt like I just sat in a garbage can the whole night. I don't know how to stop this. I told my husband who is very supportive to me usually, but even he does not seem to see it as a problem enough to radically do something about it. He says "What can I do?". I am thinking - "No meet with them..." The situation with them is - my husband was not speaking with them for almost 6 years prior because of his sister's (this man's wife) unkind to say the least outburst. Praise God he found enough in his heart to forgive, she apologized and everything is peaceful now and I feel like my husband does not want any confrontation with them just to keep peace. But again, I simply CAN'T take this anymore! They want to have supper with us again shortly and all I can think of is how to avoid it. This man must have some major wounds in his soul to have him behave like this. I will be lifting him up to the Lord to get his eyes opened and give us an opportunity to minister healing to him. But in the meantime what do I do? How do i escape this? I already let them know on numerous occasions that this is very offensive to me. His wife is embarrassed about his behavior but he keeps her under his thumb and is not listening to her. I have to confess that I am fighting the temptation of getting angry at my husband for putting me into this situation :-( and I don't want this! There must be an escape out of this. I pray God will show me a way out. If this is a confrontation and not ever seeing them again, so be it. I just pray that my husband won't keep it against me. I don't want any division between me and my husband for any reason whatsoever. Thank you very much for your input! God bless!

This is exactly what has been on my heart lately. This is the same issue I feel with the church I go to and the one I used to go to. I feel like something's missing. Something MAJOR is missing. I used to participate in small Bible study groups where we met every Wednesday 7 pm at group members' homes (we would all take turns). We had to bake something so everyone would eat and have tee/coffee and chat for a bit first, then we would go and "study" certain scriptures according to the Bible reading plan. You know what it looked like? It looked like reader's club gatherings. This got stale for me fast and I couldn't even figure out why. There was NO LIFE OF GOD in it! There was no Holy Ghost movement. The same with the church. My heart so longs to belong to a church and I go there on Sundays with so much excitement. But I too feel underfed after the service is over. Of course I don't stay whole week on just there lean Sunday "meals". I go get the MEAT daily elsewhere or else I'd just die spiritually. This brings one of my dreams to mind that I've shared here. I saw a big commercial passenger plane in the sky just sitting on a cloud. Now I understand that I saw the Church. The plane was not flying. This was my question "Why is the plane not flying on its own?" I am trying to figure it out. Today I was listening to Pastor's sermon and what he was saying was not wrong. It was right. But still it felt wrong. As many people who walked in sick, needy, broke and under oppression, walked out that day still sick, broke, oppressed. But we heard the Name of Jesus glorified. We heard Pastor saying that "Jesus is HERE". Is there something terribly WRONG with this picture? Would we walk away sick, broke and in bondage if we actually met Jesus face to face? NO!! So was Jesus there today? You know, when we tell kids "Lets' go to Church" and they say "No, it's boring"? Out of mouth of babe's... I know God's NOT BORING, Jesus is NOT BORING. So why are our churches boring? Because God's no allowed there as He should be. Maybe He's allowed in as a guest of Honor. But not as the HEAD! Why when I feel oppressed by evil spirits, I won’t even think of going to my church and ask the elders to cast it out? Sure, they'll lay their hands on me and say a prayer, but I will walk out of there just the same way I walked in. Maybe if they say "In the Name of Jesus' I command this spirit to leave NOW" and actually see it leave, many people would think they are nuts. Or maybe they are afraid that when they say this nothing will happen. So they play it "safe". Say something like "in due season, Sister. Maybe you need to wait just a little bit longer, God will get through to you." That's exactly the message they were preaching today. So a message like this will put people in bondage. They would think that if they prayed and nothing happened, maybe this is just not the right season for me to be healed. This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Where in the Bible did Jesus say "I will heal you later"? Or "this is not the season or time for you to get healed"? Nowhere! So why do they preach this in churches? God's not there, that's why!

Amen and Amen to that, Connie!!!

Hi Connie, Thank you very much for your explanations! Like you said, you need to be close to God and His Spirit and He will not lead you into lies or anything that is not of Him! Amen! I will talk to her as soon as I can. God bless!!!

Hi everyone! I was talking to a lady who was plagued by guilt of not "fully following the Lord" because of clinical depression. She was pushed to the point where she thought she would be "left behind" and go to hell because of this. I ministered to her and told her to stand for her healing - complete and total restoration. I also mentioned a webiste with videos of a revival movement. She said she watched the videos to the point where the Evengelist laid his hands on people and they fell down under the power of the Holy Spirit. She then gave me a mile long teaching on how unbiblical "beind slain in the Sprit is". She claims there is nowhere in the Bible a scripture that would support it. I do believe that "falling down" or "being slain in the Spirit" is totally Biblical. But I am not into theological arguments and am not sure how to answer to her without "starting anything". I know arguments like this are not fruitful at all. If anyone would like to share their views on this matter, I would be very thankful! God bless!

Praying and agreeing! In Jesus' Name!

Thank you, Sister, so much for your encouraging words! I got up this morning with a very heavy heart after a depressing dream and I knew I would read your encouarging words and will be lifted up in spirit and I did! God bless you beyond any imagination! You are a true blessing for us!

I am praying as well!!

Yes Connie. The trees look very beautiful now that the sun's out :-) I prefer looking at it out of my windows though. Hate driving on ice :-)

I wanted to thank everyone again for your precious prayers. We had an awful weather last few days here. On Thursday we had ice rain that left absolutely everything covered with at least a quarter of an inch covered with a solid shell of ice. Everything looked like made out of glass :-). On Friday this ice rain turned into heavy sticky snow. You can just imagine the road conditions. :-( So the wedding party arrived at the airport at 3 am on Saturday (with all these road conditions) safely. The plane was scheduled to leave at 6 am and it left at 6:02 am! PRAISE GOD> It landed on time as well. Many flights were delayed or cancelled, but theirs was exactly on time and safe!!!!

I join my faith with those believing for John's complete recovery and manifestation of his healing, in Jesus' Name. I pray that no weapon formed against him shall prosper. I pray that his body gets in line with the wrod of God that says that by Jesus' stripes John was healed and that his healing is manifested in the natural as it already has in the spiritual realm. In Jesus' Name. Amen!