Matthew Elkins [Family Problems]

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Please pray for me and my mother. We are both having problems. We are arguing just about every day of the week now it seems. She yells at me all the time over the littlest thing. And she makes a big deal out of everything. She even gets to the point where I start to get depressed and I don't feel like living in my own house anymore. I don't know what to do. I really wish that she would start coming to church. And I wish that she wouldn't make a big deal out of everything. Because it really hurts. And also every time there is something I want to do she gets mad at me. She want me to do what I want to do but all she does is scold me over it and tells me that I'm being lazy when I'm not. It really hurts my feelings. I'm just about to the point of a nervous breakdown. If something isn't done about this situation I don't know what is going to happen. My mother is making me nervous and I'm worried she won't love me anymore. This mother and son family really needs help in the worsest way possible. So please keep us in your prayers whoever you may be pray that help will come in anyway possible. And pray that my mother starts coming to church with me. Because it really hurts me to see her not coming to church. I really want her to be happy and I want her to be proud of her son wanting to have a good and sucessful life. If responding please send this to pastorjwl@verizon.net. I cannot send e-mails with my current account. That is why I am using this website so that way I may do so.

 

[Joyce]

Lord,

Please comfort Matthew. Guide him with your Holy Spirit. Father, Matthew's mother may be under a lot of stress in trying to "raise" Matthew, provide for him financially, and take care of all the normal household chores. She may be tired and irritable. Lord, please give her rest and peace. Lord, speak to her spirit and guide her to accompany Matthew to church where she can refresh her spirit, fellowship with others, and be nurtured in your word. Lord, please look after this family, guide them, show them your favor and bring them to your refreshing garden of love and redemption. In the lovely and Holy name of Jesus the Messiah.

Matthew 18:19 - NIV

"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven."

 

[Christine]

Father,

I pray for Matthew. For peace directly from You to him. Peace that passes all understanding. Father give him wisdom in how to respond to the challenges and comments from his mom. Help him to see her with Your eyes. Father, that he might be able to show her the love that You love her with. That agape love that is unconditional, asking for nothing in return. That love for us that caused You to turn Your back on Your only Son as He sacrificed His life and His dignity on that cross, that we might be able to call You our Father today. Lord, show Matthew how to lay down his life and his rights and his wants, that his Mom might know You. That she might see You and Your brilliant light in her own son and want that peace for herself. God, I know Matthew might be absolutely 100% justified in his feelings and his Mom might be 100% in the wrong in how she is behaving. Yet for some reason, You, our loving God who has a wonderful plan for Matthew, have allowed this situation. So I ask You to help Matthew to either see the reason for it, or to be able to look beyond it, in faith, to see the spritual battle taking place, the one where the enemy wants him to react in anger and discontent, to steal his peace and thereby neutralize the good witness his life can otherwise be to others, including his Mom. Please Lord, help Matthew to mentally step back the next time he is attacked and to realize what is happening and not give in to the temptation to anger or to react. Help him to respond with the restraint and agape love that only comes from You. That love that allowed Your Son to pity and forgive those who brutally persecuted Him even while he still hung on the cross. Lord, let Matthew see Your awesome power and hand in this situation, even now. Soothe the frustration and tension for Your kindgom's sake. In the Name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, Amen.

 

[Matthew 1]

Lord I pray your hand be in this relationship and this Mother sees the love of Christ in her Son. I thank you for giving Matthew the fruits of your spirit may he keep his eyes on you father and pray for his Mother deeper than he ever has. I pray blessings over this family. In Jesus Name I pray Amen.

 

[K-J]

Dear Father, our days together are far too short. I pray that You would close the distance between this mother and son, and help them relinquish all of their hurt. Help them to forgive one another, to be tolerant of one another, to have mutual respect for one another, and to realize that sometimes they just have to agree to disagree. Take away the hurt, the pride, the need to control...give them a time to just BE. Help them to love and care for one another as You commanded us to do. Let them find one another again...in a deep and true connection as when the mother's eyes first looked into the eyes of her newborn son. A connection that was honest, true and without limit, straight from the heart of God. I pray Your greatest blessings upon them, Father. Amen.