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1 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | sunnyhills | 160261 | ||
What can i do to get my 17yr old son out of a homosexual lifestyle that he has recently chosen? I have been praying but so far that hasn't worked for i am praying all alone. I have my husband, and one friend praying, thatis all. He was raised as a christian, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and now says that the bible is man's word and has left home. Will any be willing to join me to pray for him?I am Desperate,and need the body of Christ to stand with me. His name is Joshua. Thanks, sunny |
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2 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | Searcher56 | 160262 | ||
God's day to you, sunnyhills, Know that many are praying for you (and your heartbreak) and your son (and his waywardness). Talk with your pastor ... who may know one well qualified to talk with you and your son. Searcher |
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3 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | sunnyhills | 160282 | ||
Thank you. I appreciate the prayers. There is no local pastor to go to. The congregation I left about 3yrs ago is one that teaches false doctrines and we left it. They are in to the prosperity preaching, like the t.v. preachers. We live in a rural community about 20-25miles from another town, so there you go. We had a home fellowship until the leader moved away. I have tried counseling as a suggestion,intending to look for a christian church(real one) for this and was willing to drive to where ever we needed to go, but he did not want to do this. He was raised in a very good christian home,and then winning a scholarship at age 16(1 out of 5) in the U.S. to study for 1 year, anywhere in the world of his choice. We thought he was mature enough to handle this, he chose New Zealand, and only after he arrived there did we find out that many are atheist over there, including the host family, he lived with, and all of his peers but one. After returning, he announced that he was gay, did not believe the bible to be the inspired word of God,and left home.So here is my dilema. Yes we covered him in prayer while he was away, thought he was mature enough to handle living abroad, always having a level head,we made a mistake, and now all we can do is pray, turn him over to God, and trust his will to be done. It is a hard place to be when you had so much hope for a child. I guess the old saying(You can't walk through the chicken pen and not expect to get poop on your feet" is true..I thought his faith was stronger than what it was. sunny. |
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4 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | DocTrinsograce | 160286 | ||
Dear Sunny, I do not mean to be harsh. Indeed, I grieve with you over what has occured. Regardless of the root causes of your son's choices, your only course is to seek the Lord in repentance in your own life. That cannot be done all by yourself. You need a church in which to grow. No believer thrives outsie of a congregation of fellow believers. Indeed, one of the evidences of being a beliver is your love of the brethren. Furthermore, your son's choices are not a matter of weak faith. We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners. It is extremely likely that your son is not saved (1 Cor 6:9). Don't pray that he'd give up his sin, pray instead for his salvation! The only hope for you, your son, and the rest of your family is for you to heed the call of the Lord Jesus Christ, to submit fully to Him in every area of your life. In Him, Doc |
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5 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | sunnyhills | 160288 | ||
I am sorry doc, but I am afraid that Jesus Christ is my savior and not a church. It is his blood alone that saves me. You must be in one of those prosperity churches yourself, to be so defensive. I assume you are perfect. Yes we need believers in our lives, but we do not need people who teach another gospel. Jesus said, come out and be ye separate from them.(the world) Besides, I only wanted people who sincerely would pray for my child, and not condem us as a family. I am sure now, I made the wrong choice. Jesus said there would be MANY who would take the wide road, and FEW that would take the narrow road.I have also noticed in many of your posts that you are self-righteous in many of your replies to others and I feel you might need to eat a little humble pie yourself. For all of us must be careful, unless we stumble and fall. sunny |
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6 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | Hank | 160305 | ||
When one speaks disparagingly of the church or avers that he does not need the church, he disavows his allegiance to the very bride of Christ of which the Lord Jesus is the head. The church is a unique spiritual organism designed by Christ himself and consists of all born-again believers in this present age. For a Christian to say he does not need the church makes no more sense than for a man stranded in a desert to say he does not need water. Scripture references: 1 Cor. 12:12,13; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 1:22; 5:23-32; Col. 1:8; Rev. 19:7,8. ..... Bunny, very likely many readers of this Forum will be praying for you and your family. Even so, this Forum is not the church and does not and cannot perform the functions of the church. It is within the community of believers, the church, that you will find the fellowship and succor that all believers require. There are many God-centered and Bible-centered churches. If you search for one as vigorously as you would search for a grocery store if you hadn't been fed in some time, you will find one. ...... Assumptions are sometimes unkind and quite often wrong. As with Doc, for instance, I'm convinced that Doc is neither a member of nor wouldn't even go near one of those "prosperty churches" as you call them. And I fail to find a basis for your accusation that he is self-righteous. He was trying to help you and I don't believe he asked for your evaluation of his spiritual condition. ....... As a father of three children, one of whom is deceased, I am not insensible to your concerns about your son. I'm certain that should such a thing have happened in the lives of my children during their formative years, I would have been every bit as distraught about it as you are. So you are in my thoughts and prayers, and may I urge you to align yourself with a local church. I do believe that the greater concern is about your son's salvation and connecting as a family with a local church. --Hank | ||||||
7 | Will you pray with me? | James 5:16 | sunnyhills | 160355 | ||
Your replies have saddened me. Look at the hatefulness and venom that was sent. When I came to this forum, i stated that i had never been on one before. The orginal post i sent was around 2am in the morning.It was very late. I was only asking for prayer in desperation. I thought that maybe there really was someone who was as sincere about praying for others like i am when i get a request from others. I dont just say i will pray for someone, I will sincerely pray if they intrust me in their confidence.I am serious about that. I am sorry to have bothered any of you out there who have responded to my plea, for all i wanted was a simple prayer for my son and not judgement upon my whole family or to debate the scriptures or trying to find a reason why this happened to us by perhaps finding some sin in our lives that could have brought this on.Yes, we do have MANY christian brothers and sisters out there whom we are very close to, who we could have asked to pray with us, we are not just lone rangers without fellowsip, but when something so terrible with one of your own such as this particular sin, It is even hard to talk about it with the closest of friends. But i do realize now, this wasn't the approiate place to go. This seems to be a place to debate, and ask questions. And yes, I will not be back anymore, this is my last post. Sorry to have offended anyone out there. Rev.21:9,10. This is the bride of Christ |
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