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Palma1656
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
if any of you would see my sister's Bible you would think that it belonged to an 80-year-old pastor and not a 51-year-old mother of three sons. Teens through 21. Although it's about 10 years old, the leather is worn and the pages are marked with prayers and answers from our Lord. My sister has been married to a violent at times alcoholic for about 30 years. Recently about a year ago, her husband was diagnosed with a manic bipolar disorder. Within this year, he has been put in jail for striking her. While he was away from her she never stopped praying for him and their family to be whole; she always thought that the Lord would mend this situation. This is why her Bible looks the way it does. Through out her 16-year relationship with the Lord, she never doubted that Jesus would make the crooked places straight. While her husband was out of the house, she kept taking him to the doctors and always tried to get him to stop drinking; he's also has hepatitis C. During this year out of the house, they were trying to go to therapy, but he kept drinking and not taking his psych meds. July of this year on her 16-year-old son's birthday, she received a card addressed to her husband which was intended to get to his new address, but mistakenly came to their home. It was from another woman; his ex-wife from the 70s. He started having an affair with her, after his mother gave him her phone number. Apparently, she started a friendship with this person about a year ago when my sister and her husband started having their serious marital issues. Well suffice to say, this has pushed my sister over the edge. Her husband has come back, and for about a month got my sister to believe that he never had sex with this woman, and that because she lived 60 miles away, they mainly spoke on the phone and met for coffee a few times. He also has since been diagnosed with impotence from the chronic drug and alcohol abuse and heart disease. She believed him, took him back, and a week or so after he got back in the house, this woman starts harassing them on the phone. Calling three and four times a day leaving messages about their affair and how she was going to send my sister, the letters he wrote her about their relationship. My sister can not afford an attorney to divorce this man, and has believed that she can not financially take care of her children without him. He keeps trying to tell her that he is not wanting this other woman and wants to work things out with my sister, but she has been through so much hurt. She is in a deep depression and although she has never had a drinking problem, she has been violently drinking to knock herself out from this hopeless situation. She has stopped going to church, she is telling me that God doesn't love her, and if He did, why would He let her go through so much pain when He knows that she has loved him and depended on Him for so long; why take her this far to let her go now? I've been trying to let her see the demonic attack that is happening because she has always tried to keep her family in church, praying, and being the spiritual leader of the house. God is not doing this to her, but her faith is really almost at the end. Please help me pray that this depression is lifted, that her faith is restored, that the enemy be far from her and her family, that the Lord protect her, hear her cries for help, protect her heart, mind and soul. I've been on my knees daily for her, and my prayers are more desperate by the day. Please agree and pray mighty prayers for us.
Thank you.
if any of you would see my sister's Bible you would think that it belonged to an 80-year-old pastor and not a 51-year-old mother of three sons. Teens through 21. Although it's about 10 years old, the leather is worn and the pages are marked with prayers and answers from our Lord. My sister has been married to a violent at times alcoholic for about 30 years. Recently about a year ago, her husband was diagnosed with a manic bipolar disorder. Within this year, he has been put in jail for striking her. While he was away from her she never stopped praying for him and their family to be whole; she always thought that the Lord would mend this situation. This is why her Bible looks the way it does. Through out her 16-year relationship with the Lord, she never doubted that Jesus would make the crooked places straight. While her husband was out of the house, she kept taking him to the doctors and always tried to get him to stop drinking; he's also has hepatitis C. During this year out of the house, they were trying to go to therapy, but he kept drinking and not taking his psych meds. July of this year on her 16-year-old son's birthday, she received a card addressed to her husband which was intended to get to his new address, but mistakenly came to their home. It was from another woman; his ex-wife from the 70s. He started having an affair with her, after his mother gave him her phone number. Apparently, she started a friendship with this person about a year ago when my sister and her husband started having their serious marital issues. Well suffice to say, this has pushed my sister over the edge. Her husband has come back, and for about a month got my sister to believe that he never had sex with this woman, and that because she lived 60 miles away, they mainly spoke on the phone and met for coffee a few times. He also has since been diagnosed with impotence from the chronic drug and alcohol abuse and heart disease. She believed him, took him back, and a week or so after he got back in the house, this woman starts harassing them on the phone. Calling three and four times a day leaving messages about their affair and how she was going to send my sister, the letters he wrote her about their relationship. My sister can not afford an attorney to divorce this man, and has believed that she can not financially take care of her children without him. He keeps trying to tell her that he is not wanting this other woman and wants to work things out with my sister, but she has been through so much hurt. She is in a deep depression and although she has never had a drinking problem, she has been violently drinking to knock herself out from this hopeless situation. She has stopped going to church, she is telling me that God doesn't love her, and if He did, why would He let her go through so much pain when He knows that she has loved him and depended on Him for so long; why take her this far to let her go now? I've been trying to let her see the demonic attack that is happening because she has always tried to keep her family in church, praying, and being the spiritual leader of the house. God is not doing this to her, but her faith is really almost at the end. Please help me pray that this depression is lifted, that her faith is restored, that the enemy be far from her and her family, that the Lord protect her, hear her cries for help, protect her heart, mind and soul. I've been on my knees daily for her, and my prayers are more desperate by the day. Please agree and pray mighty prayers for us.
Thank you.
