Clirxainarn
Prayer Partner
My mother-in-law is going through depression and anxiety, as well as confusion about the source of spiritual truth. She is a Christian and deeply loves Jesus. She brought my husband and many other people and her community to Christ. But in the last couple of years, she has been morphing into another version of herself that I don’t recognize. Lately, she is despondent and gets confused about basic things and forgets things that just happened or have already been discussed. Most recently, she has been going to what she calls an herb store where she places her hand on a machine, and then someone “reads” what her hand reveals to the machine and tells her what herbs her body needs. She has tried to get me to go to the store and I told her I can’t go. She has tried to tell my husband‘s aunt to go to the store with her, and auntie told her that she will not because it sounds like palm reading. This exchange happened about two weeks ago when Auntie was in town. Auntie is in town again and my mother-in-law asked her the same thing, which confused Auntie because they just had that conversation two weeks ago that she doesn’t want to go. My mother-in-law did not remember having that conversation with her. After hearing this, my mother-in-law proceeded to go to the herb store anyway. She seems to be hooked on what they are telling her about what her body needs and she needs to do. They tell her to take these herbs every day and not stop until the bottle is empty. When my husband’s aunt asked her what’s in the bottles, she says she does not know. She started going to this store because she doesn’t want to take her blood pressure medication which was prescribed by a doctor. But the irony is that she is still taking pills except they weren’t prescribed and she doesn’t know what’s in them. She has also convinced her daughter (my sister-in-law) to go with her and now she is hooked as well. It seems that some force is causing my mother-in-law to keep going and now start to recruit other people. I don’t know what the spiritual origin of this place is, but it gives me a bad feeling, especially combined with the anxiety and depression that she openly admitted to auntie that she has. I am concerned that she is under spiritual attack. Today, she broke down crying to auntie, and shaking so hard she had to pull over. She also seems afraid of letting us see her eating. She told Auntie today that she “just needs a husband.” She has had four husbands one of whom is my father-in-law and she has not dated in a long time. It seems she may still be in love with my father-in-law and they recently saw each other when we brought her with us to visit him in his home state. She is 65 and despite her deep devotion to the Lord, seems to be drowning in a lack of identity and purpose. I’m asking for prayers that God would jolt her back into the truth of his word and his promises, and remind her of everything he has shown her and brought her through. I pray that this demonic entity be permanently removed from her mind and that she renounce this place she has been going to for “truth.” Finally I pray that the toxic relationships she has with her mother, her daughter, and her granddaughter be repaired completely, as I believe these relationships are the source, or at least part of the source, of her anxiety and depression. There are four generations of female relationships from her mother to her granddaughter, all of which are extremely unhealthy. I pray that I will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil and work with auntie to lovingly confront my mother-in-law with the concerns we have about her spiritual and mental health… thank you body of Christ.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
