When you come to repentance, the Lord remembers no more the sin you have committed.  It is the guilt and the consequence of the sin that lingers and has to be dealt with because it effects others.  Because of sin, the consequence is a matter of no trust and trust has to be established in our wife, your family. And in YOU.  You have to trust the Lord to change you and believe me, your family will see as you change by the Holy Spirit. And it is the Holy Spirit that will bear witness with their spirit for them to know you are genuine in your repentance and will see the change.  Keep reading the word and do as it says. Pray for your family and act on your prayers and most of all, let the love of God reign in your home for when it does, it radiates all that live there and blesses all who enter your home.  Remembe, now that you know the Lord, you are the head o the home and responsible for the spiritual well being of your family. It is the most important ministry. it would be good to establish home bible study that your family can ask questions and talk about how they feel and to look in the word for answers and for comfort.

You and your mother look so happy in the picture.  Isn't it great when you can gor to your mother and there is a smile and hug waiting, even when you have done something wrong an your mother knows you have, she still loves you the same.  I am that way with my children. I tell them I love them even when they are bad. 
As much as a mother and father love their children and want good for them and will strive to provide for them, God loves you even more. He knows every tear you shed and he knows what you are thinking and what you have done and where you have been and even so, He waits with poen arms because He love you and He desires for you to know it and to trust Him.  I can see how you are stuck where you are as this world has become so hard to live in with the economy the way it is. Still, through every circumstance you go through, God is there and He knows your heart and the pain your go through and you can turn to Him and trust Him with your life.  Just like a little child that got caught in a tree and holds his arms out to be helped by his father is the way you are now.. You may be stuck, but God is holding out His arms to you and wants to give you beauty for ashes.  God bless you and I will be praying for you.
littlenana

I am glad you requested prayer for you and your family. No family is perfect, but it is who we believe in that is perfect and able to heal and to redeem.  And we do not have to be guilty for what our children choose when they grow and go away from home as they are given a free will and I believe we pray more for our children when they are grown than when they were little.  We pray knowing God's word is true and His promises stand...The most important ministry we are given is our family and to love them and to lead them the way by our faithfulness.  There is hope and it being the Word that tells us we have hope in Jesus and that because we believe in Him we can go to the Father boldly and pray knowing God hears the cries of His people.  I am in a bad situation but I am holding up only because I am looking up and I have been given brothers and sisters who encourage and pray for me as I will be praying for you.

I will pray..Do you have a pastor you and your wife can talk to?  and if you are a member of a church, please stay in the fellowship as your brothers and sisters in the Lord is an encouragement and will also pray for you and minister to you and your wife.  I know what it is like to have so much stress as my husband and I are going through it since we are having to raise two grandchildren and one is very hard to handle and it is hard on us, but I know God is faithful and our church supports us as well as finding this forum from one of my sisters at church.  Sometimes when we are in so much stress we blame things on the other person and find fault, but it is because we ourselves are depressed from all that is going on and this could be your wife's case and too, it can get lonely when one is stressed out, so stay close and do not lose communication and to listen to one another's needs.
I am praying for you.
littlenana

I am at my wits end because I am so tired and I do not think I have the energy it is going to take to help the oldest brother.  I have had no trouble with the baby as he has been with us since infancy, but the older son is going to have to have much care.  I took him to his appointment at MHMR.  He is going to have to have one on one.  He is  victim of failure to thrive and that is why he acts the way he does. he has no skills and will have to have medication for him not having any kind of attention span. he is all over the place. The good news is that he will have help that I am limited on giving him.  Please pray that he will responde to the treatments he will receive.  Also, please pray for me.  I become short tempered with him because he exhaust me and does not want anyone to have the attention but him and the baby needs attention since he is a baby and requires more since the baby has athesma, I give him breathing treatments.  I was told that MHMR does not bill grandparents for the treatments and that is a blessing.  Please continue to pray for us, we really need it.

Thank you for praying for my son.

Thank you for praying for my son. I found out this afternnon, a man from church visits those in jail and there is a chance he can go and vivit my son who is in jail 5 hrs away from home. I am so glad I was told of this forum and glad that I can use the computer.

littlenana

HELLO.

A FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME OF THIS FORUM AND LET ME USE HER COMPUTER TO REQUEST PRAYER.
MY SON HAS 5 CHILDREN, HIS WIFE HAD TWINS IN MAY AND THEY WERE ABUSED BY HER NOT FEEDING THEM. THE LITTLE GIRL TWIN ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE SHE WAS 2 MONTHS OLD AND WEIGHED 4 POUNDS. THE CHILDREN WER LEFT IN THE HOUSE ALONE WHILE SHE WENT NEXT DOOR ALL THE TIME. MY SON WAS PUT IN JAIL AT THE TIME THIS WAS HAPPENING BY HER PARENTS OVR A LIE HIS WIFE TOLD AND WHILE HE WAS IN JAIL, SHE DID NOT TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN, ALL UNDER 3 AND THE BABIES DIAPERS HAD MAGOTS IN THEM SO CPS TOOK THE BABIES FROM HER AND PUT THEM WITH FAMILY. MY DAUGHTER HAS THE LITTLE GIRL TWIN AND THE OLDEST DAUGHTER WHO IS 3, MY SON HAS THE LITTLE GIRL WHO IS 21 MONTHS AND i HAVE THE LITTLE BOY TWIN AND THE OLDER BROTHER WHO IS TWO, AND WILL SOON BE 3. sHE HAD THESE CHILDREN TO STAY OUT OF JAIL, BUT WENT TO JAIL ANYWAY. MY SON IS STILL IN JAIL AND WE ARE PRAYING THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT. HE HAS CUSTODY OF THE OLDER 3 WHEN HE GETS OUT AND GETS A JOB AND MEANS TO SUPPORT THE OLDER 3. THE TWINS CAN NEVER GO BACK BECAUSE THEY ALMOST DIED FROM STARVATION.  I AM HAVING A HARD TIME WITH THE OLDER BROTHER BECAUSE HE HAS MUCH RAGE, DOES NOT HAVE AN ATTENTION SPAN, HE WILL NOT MIND AND THESE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KICKED OUT OF DAYCARE DUE TO THEM NOT MINDING. THE OLDER BROTHER IS MEAN TO THE BABY AND I HAVE TO KEEP CLOSE EYE ON HIM. IT IS SO HARD FOR ME TO WORK WITH THIS CHILD AND IT HURTS BECAUSE I LOVE HIM, BUT HE IS SO VERY HARD TO HANDLE. mY SON THOUGHT HIS WIFE WOULD CHANGE, BUT SHE WAS ALWAYS BUYING DOGS WITH HOT CHECKS AND TREATING THE DOGS BETTER THAN THE CHILDREN. CPS FOUND HE IS NOT THE ABUSER SO GAVE CUSTODY OF THE OLDER 3 TO HIM. tHE REASON HE IS IN JAIL IS BECAUSE HIS WIFE TOLD HIM HER FATHER GAVE HER STUFF TO PAWN TO BRING THEM TO WHERE I LIVE AND IT WAS A LIE. SHE TOLD HIM SHE HAD A WARRANT AND NEEDED HIM TO PAWN THE STUFF. THE FATHER AND MOTHER PRESSED CHARGES ON MY SON AND HIS WIFE TO TEACH THEIR DAUGHTER A LESSON AND BECAUSE THEY DO NOT LIKE MY SON. I HAVE RECORDINGS OF PHONE CALLS FROM HER MOTHER THAT CALL MY SON NAMES AND THAT HIS FAMILY WILL PAY. HIS WIFE'S SISTER IS A WITNESS TO WHAT HAPPENED AND TOLD MY DAUGHTER SHE WOULD GO TO THE JUDGE AND TELL THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED. PLEASE PRAY THE JUDGE WILL LISTEN AND SET MY SON FREE. I RAISED HIM TO KNOW THE LORD AND DID NOT WANT HIM TO MARRY A NON CHRISTIAN, BUT SHE SAID SHE IS A CHRISTIAN AND HE BELIEVED HER AND MARRIED HER AND AFTER ALL THIS BEGAN HAPPENING, HE THOUGHT HE COULD CHANGE HER AND ONLY GOD CAN CHANGE A PERSON WHO IS LOST. I SUFFERED A STROKE BEFORE THIS HAPPENED AND WHEN I GOT THE BABY, I HAD NO TROUBLE IN KEEPING HIM BUT HIS OLDER BROTHER IS SO JEALOUS OF HIM AND DOES NOT WANT THE BABY TO HAVE ANYTHING, SO EVERYDAY IS A HARD DAY. I HAVE PRAYED GOD WOULD GIVE ME COMPASSION TOWARDS THIS AND I GET ANGRY AND SO IMPATIENT WITH THIS CHILD. SINCE MY SON THINKS HIS WIFE WILL BE OUT OF JAIL BEFORE HE GETS OUT, HE WANTS THE CHILDREN WITH THEIR MOTHER, BUT CPS WILL NOT ALLOW IT AND I KNOW IT IS HARD FOR MY SON TO KNOW IT IS BECAUSE OF HER ABUSE TOWARDS THEM THAT THE TWINS WILL NEVER BE PUT BACK IN THEIR HOME AND HAVE ASKED MY DAUGHTER AND I TO ADOPT THEM. WE KEEP THEM TOGATHER ALL THE TIME AND THEY HAVE GROWN CLOSE...WE HAVE HAD THE OLDER CHILDREN FOR ABOUT 2 MONTHS. MY SON HAD CUSTODY OF THEM BEFORE HE WAS PUT BACK IN JAIL BY HER PARENTS. I KNOW MY REQUEST SEEMS TO BOUNCE, BUT I AM SO UPSET WITH ALL THIS THAT I CAN HARDLY THINK. PLEASE PRAY THE OLDER BROTHER WILL COOPERATE AND THAT HE WILL TALK BECAUSE HE CANNOT TALK AND HE ONLY WANTS ALL THE ATTENTION THAT IS HARD TO GIVE WHEN I ALSO HAVE THE BABY. HE DOES SAY WORDS WHEN HE WANTS TO, BUT MOST OF THE TIME HE WANTS TO BE THE BABY AND HURT HIS LITTLE BROTHER. HE HAS NO REMORSE WHEN HE HURTS SOMEONE AND OFTEN TRIES TO HURT HIMSELF. HE DOES NOT ACCEPT L;OVE ONLY WHEN YOU GIVE HIM WHAT HE WANTS. MY SON TOLD US THAT EVERYTHING WAS GIVEN TO HIM EVEN WHAT BELONGS TO THE OTHER CHILDREN AND THE MOTHER GAVE HIM EVERYTHING EVEN THE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS WERE OPENED BY HIM THAT BELONGED TO THE OTHERS. HIS MOTHER GAVE THEM TO HIM TO OPEN WHILE THE OTHERS WATCHED HIM. NOW HE THINKS HE HAS TO HAVE EVERYTHING AND GOES INTO A RAGE WHEN HE DOES NOT HAVE WHAT HE WANTS. I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO COPE WITH HIM. I DO NOT WANT TO RAISE THE OLDER BROTHER BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE PATIENCE WITH HIM AND NO MATTER HOW I TRY, IT IS OF NO USE. I HAVE FOUND MYSELF PROTECTING THE BABY FROM HIM AND IT HURTS THAT I CANNOT ENJOY BEING THE OLDER CHILD'S GRANDMOTHER. I BELIEVE GOD CAN DELIVER AND I NEED PRAYER THAT THIS CHILD WILL BE DELIVERED FROM THE ABUSE THAT HAS CAUSED HIM TO BEHAVE IN THIS WAY. ALSO, PRAY FOR THE BABY THAT HE WILL NOT LEARN TO ACT AS THIS CHILD DOES. THE BABY HAS BEEN RAISED WITH MY HUSBAND AND I SINCE HE WEIGHED 4 POUNDS AND NOW HE IS SO HEALTHY AND THRIVES. I JUST PRAY HIS BROTHER WILL THRIVE AND WILL ALLOW US TO LOVE HIM AND KNOW WE ARE NOT BEING MEAN TO HIM WHEN WE HAVE TO CORRECT HIM. EVERY NIGHT I HAVE TO STAY UP REALLY LATE BECAUSE HE WILL NOT GO TO SLEEP AND WANTS TO ROAM THE HOUSE GETTING INTO THINGS. PLEASE PRAY FOR US. PLEASE.