Dad thinks he’s not a Christian anymore (immediate prayer request)
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I believe that your father is undergoing a severe emotional, spiritual, and phyical trial and that is between him and God. You can be there for him but I don't really think that you're required to manage his emotional, spiritual, and physical grief and turmoil. Your father is in a very lonely and desolate place at this moment but I'm sure that he takes comfort in having you as his loving daughter. God is with him there so he's not truly alone. Perhaps that is sufficient.
As I said, I have rebuked the enemy in the name of Jesus, as well as talked to doctors, and now went to the ER. The potassium replacement has changed him back almost overnight. Only by the grace of God. I thank God. Thank You God. I don’t know if what happened is gone or not...but whatever happens, O thank God for what He is doing.
I believe that these daily emotional highs and lows as related to your dad's up to the minute health are playing havoc with your own physical and mental health.
There comes a time when instead of constantly praying for someone, especially with such a serious illness as your father, that you simply just pray that God's will and desire be done in this person's life. That's what I did when I went through many years of watching my previous late wife die by degrees each day and watching her suffer caused me tremendous suffering also.
She had great faith and asked to be healed from years of declining health but God place it in her heart to trust in Him for what eventually must happen, whether healing in her lifetime or the next. She was the bravest person I have ever known.
Near the end I did not pray for her healing anymore but only that God's will and desire be done for her life. Saying that type of prayer brought peace to my troubled mind. She died shortly thereafter. There was sadness in my heart but also the joy that my late wife was now with the Lord with her glorious new body and that she will never know pain and suffering anymore.
God may indeed heal your father today or tomorrow but whatever happens will happen for a purpose which may not be understood at this time. You have to be prepared to face the fear of your father dying and know that Jesus will neither leave or forsake your father. He will never leave or forsake you either.
I have prayed for God's will and desire to be done regarding your father's health and I have prayed that God send angels to comfort you now and to be with you on the day when your father is taken home on whatever day that may be.
There comes a time when instead of constantly praying for someone, especially with such a serious illness as your father, that you simply just pray that God's will and desire be done in this person's life. That's what I did when I went through many years of watching my previous late wife die by degrees each day and watching her suffer caused me tremendous suffering also.
She had great faith and asked to be healed from years of declining health but God place it in her heart to trust in Him for what eventually must happen, whether healing in her lifetime or the next. She was the bravest person I have ever known.
Near the end I did not pray for her healing anymore but only that God's will and desire be done for her life. Saying that type of prayer brought peace to my troubled mind. She died shortly thereafter. There was sadness in my heart but also the joy that my late wife was now with the Lord with her glorious new body and that she will never know pain and suffering anymore.
God may indeed heal your father today or tomorrow but whatever happens will happen for a purpose which may not be understood at this time. You have to be prepared to face the fear of your father dying and know that Jesus will neither leave or forsake your father. He will never leave or forsake you either.
I have prayed for God's will and desire to be done regarding your father's health and I have prayed that God send angels to comfort you now and to be with you on the day when your father is taken home on whatever day that may be.
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