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  • Alan bruce connell on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    yes please / i am a born again christian and i have a son and a daughter.../ both adules.. also they are both devote gay son and a lesibian daughter she has been married to her mate for many years and they have two young daughters around 12 and 15 years old // I have tried my ways to help then // now I am 75 years old / to my knowledge there is not /not an avenue for them my children to be correctly saved and to enter heaven // this is of GREAT DISSPARE // I have been looking in scripture for some ref verses / at this point of my life if they will not understand now I know after I pass they will never never look or ask and they will not have and option later on // thank you very much and may GOD PLEASE INTERVEN FOR EVERYONE BRUCE CONNELL
  • GiGi - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Dear Bruce,

    I have three lesbian sisters. I have only been able to talk with one of them about their soul condition and need for salvation in all of these 50 years they have been in this lifestyle. I continue to pray for them. God does not give up on our loved ones once we have gone on to be with Jesus. He will continue to seek and save the lost.

    I also have three sons who were brought up in the faith but all three turned away from it in their late teens/early twenties. The lure and deception of this world and their generations' culture greatly influenced their choices to turn from Jesus. As a parent, this grieves me very much. But I do believe that God loves them more than I ever could and that He is able to work in their lives 24/7 and I can not. So I came to decide over 20 years ago to really leave them in God's hands, as that is the best place for them to be. I continue to pray for them almost daily. I know God hears my prayers and does answer them even though I cannot necessarily see how He is working things out for their good.
  • Chris - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    Hello Alan. Brother Richard has shared some wonderful accounts that should give you peace in your heart & hope that with God, nothing is impossible. You sound like a man who has spent much time in advising your children & in much prayer for them - efforts before God that won't go to waste.

    When we think of the myriad of ways that the Lord can direct lives, order events, bring people or situations around for the fulfilment of His Purposes, we can indeed entrust our loved ones into His care & safekeeping. Just continue to love the Lord with all your heart, love your family with that same love that God has filled you with, and lay them continually before Him - no prayer goes unanswered - no cry unheard. Trust Him for the outcome - to Him Who does all things well. When we, as sinners, finally come to understand that the wrong things we have done are what greatly trouble our souls - there being no longer satisfaction from them - that an eternity of punishment awaits all who spurn God's Love, then the salvation from Jesus becomes far greater than the fickle satisfaction through sin. May your dear ones be exercised by God's Spirit, that the day will come when they cry out for His Mercy. We may not see it now, but God's Work is precise & unrelenting, especially to those we cry to Him for. 1 John 5:14,15; 2 Peter 3:9; Isaiah 55:10,11.
  • Richard H Priday - In Reply on Genesis 15 - 2 years ago
    If I understand you correctly your son and daughter are both living gay lifestyles. I will keep them in prayer. I did want to state that a pastor of mine; now in his 90s named Ken Smith spent 2 years counseling Rosanna Butterfield who used to be a lesbian professer in Syracuse. She came out of that due to the pastor and his wife patiently showing agape love; and wrote a book called confessions of an unlikely convert or something to that effect. She was interviewed by another rather famous ex-gay named Becket Cook found on you tube. Not only this; but I have a friend who used to live that way but since the 1990s has been born again as well. So it is not hopeless; there are many testimonies on You Tube as well from individuals that used to have these lifestyles. Along with many who used to be involved with New Age that have been transformed.

    On top of all this; I have a friend whose daughter also was in that kind of relationship but broke it off; and he has seen his mother and another daughter come to Christ recently; after much weeping and prayer. I would venture to say that if the Rapture is near; many will come to faith in the Tribulation as well. That shock treatment may be where the vast majority of converts will come from from this millennial generation; unless He tarries much longer than seems plausible at this point.

    I can think of others too that I know who are living this way; including a former pastor's sister. She survived a near death accident but apparently still is living this way; along with other issues. I also knew a high school student in the 1990s who used to be a talented honor student and musician in church and decided to succumb to those desires by her college years. That saddened me greatly.

    Anyway; if you are physically able; I hope you will seek fellowship. All those outside Christ will suffer the same fate if unregenerate. All those who are His sheep will hear His voice; eventually.

    Agape; Rich P



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