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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

I have been asking prayer for my parents on here for a while.....basically my dad is elderly and a heart patient, my mother is deep in to mental illness.Dad had been trying to just deal with it and endure but things came to a head yesterday and my seventy-three year old father walked out and is staying with a relative. One of my mother's closest confidants called my brother and said she fears for my dad's life. My siblings and I met this morning and signed papers to have her committed to a mental ward for evaluation. They will pick her up and take her there this afternoon. PLEASE PRAY!!! We need for my mother to be evaluated properly. We need for the doctor who works with her to get a clear understanding of what is going on. We do not want her to walk out of this experience fooling the health care professionals. AND, since she has spent the last twenty-four hours calling every friend and relative she can think of to give them her skewered point of view, we need the Holy Spirit to open these peoples minds to the truth and not let them be decieved by her. She can be very convincing. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Urgent need for prayer!! My Dad just called me. My mother went to her doctor today, complaining of pain. She told the doctor my dad had beaten her up and raped her. The doctor called my dad in separately and told him he gave my mother medicine to calm her down but she really needs to see a mental health professional. He told my dad he had suggested it to her, but she believes the doctor just confirmed she had been raped (which the doctor told my dad was untrue). Please keep my family in your prayers. We are going to have to make some tough decisions soon. And the thought that someone might actually believe her lies about my sweet, elderly father makes me shudder. Please pray for him also. He has had heart issues in the past and he needs God's grace to get through this. Thank you!!

Praying!! I do know from my own experience that one third of all pregnancies experience some type of light bleeding that is not a threat to the pregnancy. I spotted horribly with my last pregnancy but carried it full term and delivered a healthy baby boy. Standing and agreeing that God will keep his hand on your daughter and her child!!

Just an update; Our son is home and is restored to his rightful place, and JUST AS MY DAUGHTER DREAMED, the former girlfriend--the verbally abusive one, has been "knocking" (texting) at his door. Please pray that God will intervene in his situation. Our son is in a very vunerable place right now and is feeling extremely lonely with all his friends away at college and his job applications seeming to go no where. He needs prayer not just for this and a JOB but he is also dealing with depression and a fear of driving (by products of a car accident he was involved in this past fall ). Thank you SO MUCH!!

Thank you and God Bless!!!

A few years ago I had a dream about my sister-in-law. We were sitting together talking and she was looking very thin, almost anorexic and paper-white pale. She could barely hold her head up, but kept insisting she felt "great!" She and my brother had become vegetarians and she was trying to convince me how wonderful it was. I told her about the dream at the time, because she has always, as long as I have known her, been the kind who tried to "fix" everything thru diet. Not always healthy fixes, either. Most usually her "fixes" are really off the wall and her preschool children do not always get the nutrients they need. When I shared the dream, she laughed and said, "that will never happen". Fast forward to today. I overheard her announcing to another family member that she was again changing thier eating habits. They are going raw foods, no meat, no sugar. I instantly remembered the dream. Please pray for her, and her family. She is such a control freak, she feels the need to not just control every bite her children put in thier mouths, she also wants to convert every person she sees to her skewered ways. I feel if she had a real relationship with Jesus it would go a long ways toward helping her be more balanced and would help her provide a more stable home life for her family. I am praying that God will bring people into her life that will be able to influence her in healthy ways, and most importantly, help her see her need for Jesus. She has the head knowledge, but needs the real heart transformation. Thanks!!

Agreeing in prayer!!

Thank you!! That was indeed a word from the Lord to me. They will be visiting my parents, who live about 30 miles away from us. After praying this morning I simply e-mailed my relative and told her what our schedule was for the upcoming week, basically very busy. I left it up to her if she wanted to pursue a visit. She didn't offer, just me know if we had a break during the week, the children would love some play time. There has been no repentance, especially on her part. Her husband did apologize, stating a misunderstanding. But there has been no fruit of repentance shown, just words. We have forgiven them, and I would greive if something bad were to happen to them or their children. But at this time I really do not want them in my home or around any of my children. There is very much a controlling, manipulative spirit involved there. To the point that I have even felt guilty about not having them over while they are "in town". Thank you again, your words confirmed what I was feeling in my spirit.

Wow!! Thank you so much!! I hadn't even considered the possibility that being unhospitable would place new weapons in their hands. I really do not want them around my son, but I know they are bringing some of his things he left at their home and so we will have to see them at some point. We are just very uncomfortable with the prospect. Although we are working hard on forgiving them, there is still the trust issue we are dealing with. Thank you for giving me more insight and some real direction!

I have been all over this website asking prayer for our son who, according to a prophet we sat under last week, was "stolen" from us. The prophet spoke in veiled terms but it bore witness in both my and my husband's spirits that he was speaking about our son. He said the "property" had been returned by God and the deal would be "finalized" within thirty days. Our son came home for Christmas and has chosen to stay. BUT, the family members that he was living with, who were trying to turn him against us, are coming tomorrow for a visit with my parents. As of this morning the woman has e-mailed me to try and arrange a "play-date" for our younger children. After everything that has happened, we are not comfortable with them in our home (in the past every visit included them staying with us for a few days too). I really need some advice on how to handle this. My husband and I are still working on forgiving them for the brutal, behind our back attack. It feels like opening the door and inviting in a snake, actually.

Praying!! God is a God of justice and praying He give you favor and recompence for everything you have lost!

PLEASE continue to hold my son up in prayer. We have had some holy-spirit led conversations with him and we have discovered he is suffering from depression also. He really needs some HOPE and freedom from this spirit. The next few weeks will be the hardest as his best friend is leaving tomorrow for college and our son is waiting to hear back from some job apps. (he really needs a job). ALSO, the people who were manipulating him are coming to the area in a few weeks for a week-long visit. We really need some wisdom! Thank you ALL so much!!

Just an update....the meeting we attended last night was amazing. Our son was not prophesied over, BUT a special word was given to my husband in the hearing of all that was such a confirmation that a lot of hard choices my husband had made about ministry were right choices. Our son cried all the way through and he told me afterward that he is ready to move back home! Thank you for all the prayers!! This had been a hard fought battle and we so appreciate all who prayed with us!!

Thank you... :')

To make a very long, very sad story short, my mother suffers from a severe mental illness. She will not admit she has it and will not get treatment, even though she saw her grandmother suffer from the same thing. She has literally almost run out of anyone who will deal with her. She has been verbally abusing my father for years and he has tried to be understanding and loving and "for better or worse and in sickness and in health" etc. But he is seventy-two, has had three bypass surgeries, and was told by his doctor last year that the stress of living with my mother is killing him, literally. My siblings and I have offered to have her committed, have even taken all the neccessary steps to do so, but our father has held us off, saying such a thing would truly devastate and destroy her. But by now, most of my siblings have begun to cut off all but the most neccessary contact with her, and others refuse to answer the phone when she calls them. If we communicate with our father we have to sneak around to do it or he gets the verbal abuse even worse. He called me just a litte while ago, needing to vent. I encouraged him to talk to a lawyer friend about what he could do legally. Please pray for him. He is a wonderful, Godly man who is trying to do the right thing, but we believe she is completely demon possessed at this point(the Holy Spirit revealed to me she is being harassed by more than one tormenting demon). But she denies it all and makes my dad out to be the devil, and almost every other person she knows or meets wants to destroy her in some way (she is horribly paranoid). We just need to know how to counsel our father and know the direction to take with our mother. I just pray God reveals to her the truth in a way she can understand it. She was once upon a time a strong, Godly woman.

We have been in much prayer and intercession for our son and many of you have prayed for him. THANK YOU!! He now has said he dearly wants God's direction for his life, but feels confused and unsure. Please agree with us and him that God will give him that clear direction he seeks. He needs three things; 1) a good job in our area, 2) friendships (all his friends are soon to be leaving for college) and 3) a place to play music ( he is a very annointed musician). He also needs the people he was living with and those they surrounded him with to fade from his life and cease being bad influences. We are to go to a special meeting Friday night, where a prophet will be speaking. Please agree that God will use this vessel to speak what He wants our son to hear. THANK YOU!!

Thank you ALL for the encouragement!! This has been such an unexpected battle but God has used each of you to encourage us as we've been fighting it with prayer and the Holy Spirit. Thank you all again for the prayers and encouragment!!

Just another update. Our son has been home a couple of weeks and it has been a time blessed by God. We have had some really good conversations and he has said if he can find a job here he won't go back. He is also talking again to his former girlfriend (the one our daughter dreamed about) and he is hoping things go well for them. So, PLEASE pray that he finds a job quickly and also that God's will be done in the relationship. One thing I noticed quickly with him is that it seems some of the soul ties with these other people have loosened. I know this is because of prayer. Thank you again for all your prayers!!

We haven't had this problem since we moved to the country several years ago....it seems they all trick or treat in town. When we lived in town it was a very different story! The first few years we lived there, we handed out candy WITH tracts. Then, when we became more involved in various ministries through the years, we used that night to host an alternative fun night for the children and teens of the church and thier friends. Many times we included puppet shows or Christian videos that shared the gospel.

Just an update. I dreamed last night, just a short dream, of my son walking into our house and opening a drawer to take out a key (in real life that is the drawer his old house key is in). He put the key in his pocket and walked toward his room. My daughter turned to me and asked, "what did he get?" I said."his house key." she said to me, "good, maybe that means he is home to stay." In real life, the key is his house key, and he placed it in that drawer when he moved out. That is all I remember from the dream. But this morning he texted me to see if we could make arrangments to get him home for Christmas. If our plans go through he will be home for 3-4 weeks. He is also planning on bringing some important items back home with him. Please continue to pray that his way will not be blocked by the ones he is living with. Also pray that his time home will help him see clearly where he belongs. Thanks guys!!

Thank you and feel free to share anything you feel may help. This situation really blind-sided us. We had problems with them in the past (i.e. ministry) but I never really shared it with our children (my husband did voice some hurt and anger at the time). When our son visited over the holidays I did try to talk to him in a nice way, sharing with him that I had had some issues with the woman in the past and I wanted him to be sure and pray about things. Up until I accidentally saw a message sent to my son from the man, I really thought the man was an innocent in the whole thing and trusted him where my son was concerned. The next day I felt very moved by the Holy Spirit to expose to them that we realized what was going on and were hurt that they were trying to do this to our family. The man apologized, citing a misunderstanding on his part. He did seem sincere. His wife clearly lied about her part in the matter (I know her well enough by now to sense when she isn't being truthful). But since that day the phone calls and text messages from our son have almost stopped. Earlier this week I sent him a note telling him we were aware he seemed to be avoiding us and wished to know what the problem was so it could be fixed. I carefully avoided mentioning the others. Since then I have heard nothing from him. We have always let him know that he is always welcome to come back home, but it is his choice (that has been the main point the others have been making him--that we are trying to force him to come back home). So maybe you can tell me this---did it help any when you heard from your family or would it have been better for them to have backed off? We are unsure whether we should continue trying to contact him or just back off completely. Thank you.

Thank you!!

Our son in nineteen. And the people manupulating him were his youth pastors for about five years. So the soul ties are strong. They are currently attending church and the man is doing youth ministry, although how long they will stay is hard to know as they will leave if anyone disagrees with them and have "church" at home. I am not sure how good their church is; it's denomination is good and we attend a church that is affliliated with it. But some of the teachings we are hearing coming out of it are "fresh revelations" and do not coincide with Biblical teaching. And what can they gain by turning our son against us? We were in pastorial ministry for several years and worked closely with this family. When we refused to agree with some off their off the wall "revelations" they left. The Holy Spirit showed us at that time that the woman has a strong Jezebel spirit and her husand that of Ahab. We know for one, she would love to get retaliation against us for refusing to let her "rule" several situations. (we know this by the Spirit). But the Holy Spirit has also revealed to us that the man has a strong territorial spirit toward our son. He feels as if he is our son's spiritual father and must redirect him spiritually. Up until our son moved in with them, we had a very close relationship with our son and he even told us he was uncomfortable with them at times because they often tried to push him against his will. Thank you so much for the prayers. We are much grieved in our spirits but feel confident that God is working even when we cannot see. We also know that others they have tried to manipulate in the past have not stayed with them long and when relationships get close with them, they usually end quickly.