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Hello, I am asking for prayer for my friend Kim. Her husband passed away on Friday from a long battle with cancer. She is also disabled, having had a severe stroke 25 years ago. She has been active for many years, but now, due to pain all over, she is pretty much in bed most of the time. Her husband was in the hospital since last fall, so they have not been together because she could not travel the hour and a half to the hospital. They have two adult children who have helped out, but now these kiddos will need to help her out even more, perhaps moving back home with her. They have lost their dad. So there is much going on in this family.
Kim says that it is hard to have faith and believe that God loves her when her life has been so difficult all of these years. Her husband had not come to the Lord despite her testimony over the years. She doesn't understand why God did not bring him to salvation. She has been depressed for a long time and has been a home body since Covid, thus isolating herself from being around friends and other believers. She stays up all night and sleeps all day, so it is hard to communicate with her person to person.
Please remember her and her kids in prayer during this difficult time of loss and hardship.
Gigi, I will pray for your friend Kim. Also for her children. I pray that the demon of depression be cast out of her and that the Holy Spirit take over. I pray that she realize that the only way to survive is to give it to God. Yes, it is easy to say, but sometimes hard to do. I will pray for her to be delivered. God bless her and God bless you. Amen
She had adjusted so very well from the limitations of her stroke 25 years ago, but in the past 5 years her body is just giving out from overcompensating for muscles that don't work right. She wears a foot brace that has been a source of a lot of pain to wear and try to walk in these last 5 years, too, so she avoids getting up and bearing weight and trying to walk. I have asked her many times this last year if I could stop by to visit her, but she has declined, mostly because she sleeps all day and doesn't want to change that habit. We used to see each other often and she helped in my classroom weekly for many years, but since Covid, there was a big change. Since her husband retired, the two of them were hold up together at home and rarely went out.
When he was diagnosed first with leukemia and then with lung cancer and COPD he needed to be inpatient up at the University of Washington hospital since last fall. Such a sad situation all around.
Kim and I used to share so much time in Bible study and enjoying the Lord's fellowship together. But her isolation and being around her husband once he retired has affected her daily walk of faith. He was very antagonistic about the things of God. She fought the fight of faith for herself, her husband and her children for several decades, but now she needs to regain that trust and confidence in the Lord, that He knows all that she has suffered, all that is in each of our hearts, all that He will do and has done already whether we are aware of it of not.
Gigi, oh my goodness! Yes, a very hard life she has lived for the past five years. It is hard to understand why the Lord tells us to go and heal yet some don't get healed. We cannot say to them that they don't have faith, yes they do. For her husband passing away like that must be a burden beyond measure. Having a friend such a you is a blessing but she has closed that door. I am praying that she realize that she needs you. And I am praying that her confidence and trust be restored. God bless you, from your sister in Christ.
She has not closed the door on me. She continues to be my friend but, due to her inability to be mobile and depression, she just cannot bring herself to interact. This is sad, but I understand and lift her up in prayer and look forward to being able to see her in time. She is very burdened right now and those who are so downhearted do fall into "cocooning" themselves from those outside their tiny sphere.
Right now she does not feel that she has faith to trust the Lord, but God has implanted faith in her through the Spirit and the word of the gospel. I know that that seed of faith is still present but adversity is preventing it to grow and be seen to her right now. The Lord is faithful and when He has begun such a good work of salvation in someone, He will bring it to completion. I just wish she did not have so much daily pain and immobility.
Gigi, that's good. But, yes it is sad, about not communicating with you. I pray that she will soon, very soon contact you. I will continue praying for Kim. God bless you
One never knows whether someone was saved or not, only God knows what goes through people's minds and hearts. I have heard real stoties about people who were rejecting Jesus until the very end, but just hours before passing away repented and asked for forgiveness. So lets not come to conclusions that may not be true.
My dad died of lung cancer 30 years ago, suffering for 6 years. An atheist as a communist, a hardened man who fought the Nazis in WW2 as a guerilla on the mountains as a 15 year old kid, who never seeked God in his life even during his illness (or at least he didn't show externally such a thing) as said never showed any sign that he believed until he passed away. At that time I wasn't born again either. After I was saved I started worrying a lot about where his soul went. To my surprise after a long time of torturing myself with those thoughts, God revealed to me that he was saved. He spoke to me through the mouth of my 5 year old nephew who never heard anything about his grandfather, also never met him, he was born months after my dad died. So we will be surprised in Heaven meeting people who we would never thought that they will be there. So your friend Kim may be in peace that God has done what was needed to save her husband.
About the rest she is going through it is true that we don't have answers for everything, but one thing is a solid ground, God loves us and He will bless us. I will pray for her.
Well said, I know that the Holy Spirit is at work in the lives of those who have heard the gospel, as this man, Chris, had from his wife. We just do not know the thoughts and will of those in there last moments of consciousness or even how the Spirit still can work in the heart of someone who is unconscious or diminished mental faculties. God is gracious and merciful. And He is just and the one who justifies. So we can leave the eternal state of our loved ones when they pass in God's hands. He will always save ALL who He has elected to salvation. I do not think that our witness is wasted on unbelievers nor our prayers. God is at work in ways we cannot see or know. So, as you said, we can believe that God has done all that is needed to bring someone to salvation. No one will be missed by Him.
Kim says that it is hard to have faith and believe that God loves her when her life has been so difficult all of these years. Her husband had not come to the Lord despite her testimony over the years. She doesn't understand why God did not bring him to salvation. She has been depressed for a long time and has been a home body since Covid, thus isolating herself from being around friends and other believers. She stays up all night and sleeps all day, so it is hard to communicate with her person to person.
Please remember her and her kids in prayer during this difficult time of loss and hardship.
She had adjusted so very well from the limitations of her stroke 25 years ago, but in the past 5 years her body is just giving out from overcompensating for muscles that don't work right. She wears a foot brace that has been a source of a lot of pain to wear and try to walk in these last 5 years, too, so she avoids getting up and bearing weight and trying to walk. I have asked her many times this last year if I could stop by to visit her, but she has declined, mostly because she sleeps all day and doesn't want to change that habit. We used to see each other often and she helped in my classroom weekly for many years, but since Covid, there was a big change. Since her husband retired, the two of them were hold up together at home and rarely went out.
When he was diagnosed first with leukemia and then with lung cancer and COPD he needed to be inpatient up at the University of Washington hospital since last fall. Such a sad situation all around.
Kim and I used to share so much time in Bible study and enjoying the Lord's fellowship together. But her isolation and being around her husband once he retired has affected her daily walk of faith. He was very antagonistic about the things of God. She fought the fight of faith for herself, her husband and her children for several decades, but now she needs to regain that trust and confidence in the Lord, that He knows all that she has suffered, all that is in each of our hearts, all that He will do and has done already whether we are aware of it of not.
Thank you for praying for my dear friend.
Thanks for the kind words.
She has not closed the door on me. She continues to be my friend but, due to her inability to be mobile and depression, she just cannot bring herself to interact. This is sad, but I understand and lift her up in prayer and look forward to being able to see her in time. She is very burdened right now and those who are so downhearted do fall into "cocooning" themselves from those outside their tiny sphere.
Right now she does not feel that she has faith to trust the Lord, but God has implanted faith in her through the Spirit and the word of the gospel. I know that that seed of faith is still present but adversity is preventing it to grow and be seen to her right now. The Lord is faithful and when He has begun such a good work of salvation in someone, He will bring it to completion. I just wish she did not have so much daily pain and immobility.
One never knows whether someone was saved or not, only God knows what goes through people's minds and hearts. I have heard real stoties about people who were rejecting Jesus until the very end, but just hours before passing away repented and asked for forgiveness. So lets not come to conclusions that may not be true.
My dad died of lung cancer 30 years ago, suffering for 6 years. An atheist as a communist, a hardened man who fought the Nazis in WW2 as a guerilla on the mountains as a 15 year old kid, who never seeked God in his life even during his illness (or at least he didn't show externally such a thing) as said never showed any sign that he believed until he passed away. At that time I wasn't born again either. After I was saved I started worrying a lot about where his soul went. To my surprise after a long time of torturing myself with those thoughts, God revealed to me that he was saved. He spoke to me through the mouth of my 5 year old nephew who never heard anything about his grandfather, also never met him, he was born months after my dad died. So we will be surprised in Heaven meeting people who we would never thought that they will be there. So your friend Kim may be in peace that God has done what was needed to save her husband.
About the rest she is going through it is true that we don't have answers for everything, but one thing is a solid ground, God loves us and He will bless us. I will pray for her.
GBU
Well said, I know that the Holy Spirit is at work in the lives of those who have heard the gospel, as this man, Chris, had from his wife. We just do not know the thoughts and will of those in there last moments of consciousness or even how the Spirit still can work in the heart of someone who is unconscious or diminished mental faculties. God is gracious and merciful. And He is just and the one who justifies. So we can leave the eternal state of our loved ones when they pass in God's hands. He will always save ALL who He has elected to salvation. I do not think that our witness is wasted on unbelievers nor our prayers. God is at work in ways we cannot see or know. So, as you said, we can believe that God has done all that is needed to bring someone to salvation. No one will be missed by Him.
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