Please keep me in mind in prayer on tuesday. It is my husbands uncles funeral & i've been asked to do the bible reading. What i need help with is my husbands brother will be there and he caused alot of problems and alot of hatred towards me in the last decade. I have not spoken to him in 10 years although i have forgiven them (him & his wife) They are only interested in the negative and did tips to the government to try to cause me problems back in 99... then they lied and said i made it all up and the whole family believed his wife over me (for a season) the thing about being truthful is you dont have to have a good memory! the whole family except my husbands mother have now accepted me and love me. The brother & the mother will be sitting in the pews sharing negative thoughts about me as i do the reading & basically as i do anything that day. Please pray for the Holy Spirit to surround me to be oblivious of the meanness that I may honour uncle Joe on that day and not be drawn into foolish controversy. Also please pray for uncle joes son. he is not returning anyones calls and has moved away and secluded himself. please pray that he comes to his sences and comes to the funeral. Thank you for your time... my issue seems so petty when there are those out there struggling to get enough food and rent money, so keep it short & use most of your time to pray for them. Thank you So much for helping me with my armour b4 the big day.
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Hey, Imoss. I'll be praying for you, too. And I hope everything goes well at the funeral. For ur sake, & the sake of everyone attending! Im sorry for ur familys loss.
Just thought i'd let you guys know how things went tuesday. On the way to the service we were listening to a praise & worship cd Jason Upton... He was praising the Lord and praying for healing both physically and emotionally in families the 13 min song ended with nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus... we truly felt the Lord in the car on the way. When we got to the catholic church I saw my brother in law sitting up front behind my husbands uncle... he looked broken and alone. I felt such sadness and compassion for him all of our past was gone to me. I walked ahead of my husband and boys and gave michael a hug and told him i miss him. he did not respond and i didnt feel hurt just sadness for his hardened heart. my husband then came up and asked him if he wanted to meet his nephews... he just said hey to christian & shook his hand and shook corbets hand then turned away. we focused on uncle john then and i noticed christian sat beside uncle mike. on the way home i asked him what he said to him. he said he told uncle mike he misses him and loves him. mike stood up and walked away. Its really too bad but its not our deal. I was asked by the family to select scripture and read it. when it came time for me to read i went up and started by introducing myself and was about to tell those gathering the reason for my selection of the bible reading when the priest came up and said no no no not now. he then poked his big finger agressively on his catholic book "read this". the family asked me to select a passage so i just continuted and said that the spirit was interceeding for uncle Joe and this is the reason for me picking romans 8 and that i just love the blessed assurance that no matter how black the blots in my soul my Lord and saviour christ jesus covers it... as i was saying those words the priest took my paper from me. Thankfully I listened to the Holy spirit and brought my bible to read the passage instead of relying on my typewritten passage. (i just thought it would be nicer to read from the Bible directly) THANK YOU Lord... I pressed on and read my passage as i was certain this is why we got to minute 13 on the praise & worship cd (we usually skip to the next tune around minute 6 cause it just goes on and on...) this is where the end of my passage that i was going to read is sung. anyway the lord validated that i should read the passage i selected. Anyway I continued and read my reading while he went from the right to the left trying to retrieve my bible. WHY wouldnt a priest want the bible read in his church???? CRAZY!! anyway i got through it & he never called me back to read the rest of my presentation that the family had requested. so at the cemetary i told him in front of others... as you know, because you took my paper, i have alot more that i wanted to share with the familiy... so if you will let me know what time works for you I will get on with it and do it then so let me know. he was forced to let us make the funeral about uncle Joe. Anyway I had strength and determination that only comes from the Lord & i want to thank you all for your prayers, they definitely helped!