My mother - healing Alzheimer...my sleep

[Natasha 2]

Please pray that my old mother is healed now from Alzheimer, losing memory, being confused, deoriented, in panic etc in Jesus name!!

Lord please give me peace so that i can sleep she is calling me and my brother in the night. I am so tense because of her. Lord please pit peace upon us all. I rebuke the devil messing around with my mother and using her to bring confusion and disbalance in our lives in Jesus name. Lord please put peace uppn my mother let her have good sweet sleep and comfort her heart in Jesus name!

I am.so tense, i never know whst will happen next and now my heart is beating fast and i am worried about her etc...

 

[Articles]

We have heard your cry for your dear mother and for your own troubled heart and we join with you together before the Father in Jesus name seeking His mercy and peace over your family.

We are deeply moved by your love and faithfulness as you honor your mother in her frailty and confusion. The Lord sees your exhaustion and the nights of broken sleep when she calls out in disorientation and panic. He understands the weight you carry as you never know what will happen next and your heart beats fast with worry. We bring both your mother and you and your brother before the throne of grace.

The Scriptures remind us that our God is compassionate and our healer. Psalm 147:3 says He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Exodus 15:26 says I am Yahweh who heals you. Isaiah 41:10 says Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. We do not take lightly the suffering that Alzheimer brings with its loss of memory and confusion, yet we know that nothing is beyond the Lord's power and His tender care reaches even into the places where the mind grows dim.

We also hear your tension and sleeplessness and we pray for the peace that only Christ can give. Philippians 4:6-7 says In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. 1 Peter 5:7 says casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. Psalm 4:8 says In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. And Matthew 11:28 says Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Isaiah 26:3 says You will keep whoever's mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

We agree with you in rebuking the works of the enemy that would use fear and confusion and exhaustion to steal peace from your home. We do not ascribe this illness itself to a simple spiritual attack, for the body is subject to frailty in this fallen world, but we do stand against every spirit of fear and panic and disquiet that torments your mother and disturbs your rest, and we ask the Lord to replace it with His calm and comfort.

We pray together now. Father in heaven we come to You in the precious name of Jesus Christ our Lord, for it is only through Him that we have access to Your throne. We lift up this beloved mother to You. Touch her mind and body with Your healing hand according to Your perfect will. Quiet her confusion and disorientation, calm her panic and restore to her as much clarity and peace as You deem good. Comfort her heart and let her know she is loved and safe in Your care and in the care of her family. Grant her good sweet sleep through the night, free from terror and restlessness. We also lift up Your child who is weary and tense and worried, whose heart is racing and whose sleep is broken. Pour out Your perfect peace upon this home. Guard this heart and mind in Christ Jesus, slow the racing heart, release the burden of worry and help us to cast every care upon You. Give wisdom and strength to both siblings as they share this caregiving, help them to take turns and to seek help when needed so that they may also rest, for Psalm 127:2 says you give sleep to your loved ones. Let Your presence fill this house with quietness and balance and hope. We ask all this in the mighty and merciful name of Jesus, Amen.

We encourage you to continue to bring every anxious thought to the Lord in prayer through Jesus, to rest in His promise to be with you and to uphold you. Share the burden openly with your brother and if possible with trusted family or medical caregivers so that you are not carrying this alone through the nights. Keep honoring your mother with patience and gentleness even in her confusion, trusting that the Lord sees and honors your faithfulness, and keep guarding your own health with moments of rest and with the Word. The Lord is near to you in this long and difficult season and He will not forsake you.

 

[Elizabeth F]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

We've been reading your request and we can hear how worn down you are. Watching your mother become confused and disoriented, and being woken through the night, would leave anyone tense and on edge. It makes sense your heart is racing and sleep feels impossible right now.

Caring for a parent with Alzheimer's is especially hard because it is so gradual and so separating. Over months and years it changes roles in the family and it quietly drains physical and emotional reserves, even when love stays strong. Needing rest and steadiness doesn't mean you love her less.

We want to keep praying for you and for your mother, and we also encourage you to let others help carry this. If you haven't already, it would be good to talk with her doctor about the nighttime panic and confusion, and to talk with your own doctor about the tension, fast heartbeat and broken sleep, alongside prayer. It can also help to ask your brother, other family, or a trusted pastor or friend to share the night calls or give you a regular break so rest is possible.

Father, we lift this mother to You and ask for Your gentle comfort over her mind and heart at night. Give her sweet sleep and calm, and give her children Your peace, wisdom and rest as they care for her. Guide the doctors and family who support them, and hold this whole family in Your care. In Jesus' name, amen.

 

[dcrandjr]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[CozyHomer]

Praying in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[bobr69]

Praying in Jesus Name.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your cry concerning your dear mother and your own weariness has been heard and we have carried it to the throne of grace with you.

The Lord knows the path of this sore affliction, the losing of memory, the confusion and disorientation and panic which so distresses her and which presses so heavily upon you and your brother, especially in the night watches when she calls and your heart beats fast with worry and tension. He knows what it is to be thronged with duties and pressed with sorrows surging round, and He is able to keep in perfect peace those whose minds are stayed upon Him, because they trust in Him.

We have prayed that the Lord in His mercy would lay His healing hand upon your mother according to His perfect will, and that He would comfort her heart and grant her sweet and quiet sleep. There is abundance of healing power in Jesus Christ and His salvation, for the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations, and even the least thing about Christ is healing virtue. We ask that as you look to Him, you may know that pardon and healing are joined together in His cross, where it is written, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed. The blood of Jesus whispers peace within, and that peace is a present possession which may be enjoyed even in the midnight of this world of care.

We have prayed also for you, that the Lord would give you that sleep which He gives to His beloved. The demon of restlessness does not come to that bed where there is a quiet conscience and a mind stayed upon God. So He gives His beloved sleep, not only the sleep of the body but the sleep of contentment and of security in His keeping. When anxiety arises through being in a difficulty, it unfits us to meet that difficulty, but to stay the mind upon Christ and to do the will of Jesus, this is rest.

Therefore we have asked the Father in the name of Jesus Christ our only Saviour, that He would rebuke every assault of the enemy, for Jesus has vanquished death and all its powers, and that He would put His perfect peace upon your mother and upon you and your brother. May He guard your hearts and minds, still your tense thoughts, quiet your beating heart, and grant to you all good and calm sleep, and may He comfort your mother and keep her in His tender care both night and day.

We will continue to bear you and your mother before the Lord, asking that you may know that in Jesus keeping you are safe. Cast your burden upon Him, trust in Him, and may the peace of God which passes all understanding keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus until earths struggles shall cease and He calls His own to Heavens perfect peace. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

Praying for this request in Jesus Name.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name.