I will keep you in my prayers as well sister.  Speaking of which, I felt a urge to pray for you last night for comfort.  I don't have any idea why, but I did as I was lead by Christ.

hmmm....that would have been Tuesday night.  I don't know what was going on.  I have been pretty down all week though.  I am really sad that my preacher is leaving. Tomorrow morning is the end of the line.

It doesn't look like my bosses are going to sell after all; not to the same woman anyhow.  It looks like they won't lend her the money to buy it.  Whici for me is great, but maybe not so much for my boss.  He seems pretty confident that God led him to buy the store and God isn't ready for him to get out of the business yet, so hes pretty well okay with it. 

Speaking of my boss, one of their twin daughters has got to have tubes put in her ears, so please pray for her too.

Thank you all.

MJC

I went to church tonight.  Everything went well but I still can't believe that we only have one more service with Bro. John.  I am really going to miss him and his family.  My boss never heard anything from the woman he is planning to sell to.And I gained a little more debt today.  I had saved up just enough money over the past two weeks to get the transmission in my truck service.  Then next week I was going to try to get a muffler.  Well, today my dad took it and got the transmission serviced and when they backed it up off of the lift at the mechanic shop the muffler fell off!  So now I owe my dad almost two hundred more dollars plus my truck payment at the begginning of the month, and my insurance, and I owe someone else 100 dollars!  I know that God will help me through it though.

Well, my dad just bought him a vehicle too, so when he took out the loan he got the extra money for my truck too.  Now I am paying my dad back.  I don't know about the work situation.  I think I will be able to handle it.  If I can't I reckon I will have to cut back some.  They are going to let me take off on Wednesdays so that I can go to church.  And we are closed on Sundays so that will help some.  My boss will find out tomorrow if the woman can buy the store.  If so, it will probably all happen within the next month.  The lady that wants it is married to my grandpa's first cousin.  They live like a quarter of a mile from me.  I don't have anything against them but things just won't be the same.  And Sunday morning is going to be Bro. John's last service.  I reckon I am just in a rut right now.  Is it possible to be in a spiritual rut?  I don't know what I'm talking about...it'll all work out sooner or later.

I am trying to just trust God.  I still haven't gotten a chance to just sit down and talk to my pastor.  We are going to talk tomorrow.  I know that he's doing what he feels the Lord wants him to do.  I would rather him do God's will than be here just to keep me happy.  I still don't like the idea of him leaving, but its not for me to like.  I just have to get used to it.  It'll all work our however its meant to.  Thank you for your continued prayer.

MJC

I will pray for this situation.  I know that kids are so easily influenced at such a young age.  Whatever he gets in his mind right now is going to effect the rest of his life.  I pray that he will see how much he is loved.

  And, please try to reduce your stress levels.....try to get some relaxation.  I know you've been going through alot with your family and job situation.

Well, I really don't think that this is an option at the time.  I found out Tuesday morning that my preacher is leaving.  Next Sunday morning is his last service.  He is moving to a church about 40-50 miles away I think.  He said that it wasn't anything that happened here, but he felt like God was just leading him elsewhere.  I understand and I don't hold it against him or anything.  But this is just one more thing.  I also just bought a truck from my grandpa.  I am working every hour I can get right now to pay for it and the insurance.  Insurance for a 16 year old is not cheap!!!  The boy I used to work with quit so I am taking up my hours and his too.  I also need the money so I can get some tires, and the transmission serviced and a few other things.  And school started back Monday.  I can't stand it.  I am not going to quit or anything, but I just can't stand it.  The only class I really like is Chemistry and my computer class.  Please just keep me in your prayers.  It seems like a soap opera.  Every time I post its something else!  Thank you all so much!

MJC

You are definitely right about the insulin thing.  My dad was on pills for his diabetes for a couple of years before he started taking insulin.  I reckon I do need to go to the doctor, as much as I don't want to, its probably the best thing for me to do

My dad is diabetic too.  I used his meter to test my sugar.  He has to take to insulin shots a day.  But I didn't think too much of it because I had just eaten, even though I really didn't eat that much.  I really am trying to avoid going to the doctor though.

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It is possible that your sugar levels are off sister.  I would see a doctor, if I was you.  I will keep my prayers going for you, and family members.

I don't know, that's what everyone else seems to think too.   I can't stand going to the doctor though.

It is possible that you had a severe anxiety attack since you've been under alot of stress.  But you should go to the doctor and get a checkup...just to make sure that everything is ok.  If the doctor doesn't find anything wrong with you, it might have been from the stress of everything.  If so, try to take things easier in order to let your system have a rest.

Are you a diabetic?  Stress can raise sugar levels, too.

I think that's kind of what Mr. Marshall was saying.  I don't know though.  As far as I know I am not diabetic.  Mr. Marshall said that my sugar had probably dropped because his does the same thing, so I ate a jolly rancher and some crackers and like half of a fudge round.  Everything made me feel sick though.  When I finally got home, I tested my sugar and it was 196.

Last year I passed out and fell in the pond while fishing.  Thank God I wasn't by myself that day.  I would have drowned.  I went to the doctor and the didn't find anything.  They found a very minor heart defect, but they don't think that's what made me pass out.  They said not to worry about it unless it started happening a lot.  But that was a year ago.  

And I forgot to mention that I haven't been able to sleep and I haven't hardly had an apetite for the past week.

I am praying for Josh too.  I know that he needs it.  Now is definitely a time in his life where satan is going to be attacking him and he needs a lot of prayer.  I pray that he will stay strong in the Lord.

Something went wrong with my last post.  The whole thing was not a quote.  I added some of that to what Pastor Roger had said.  Anyhow, I am just going to have to let God work it all out for me, that and another problem that has started.  I almost fell out at work Tuesday night.  I ate a piece of pizza and about five minutes later I felt like I was going to be sick and I got really hot and started running a fever and I sat down right before I fell down.  There wasn't anything wrong with the pizza because my boss and his son ate all of it but a couple of pieces.  And I only ate one piece.  Anyhow, I had a really high fever and I got dizzy and I had a bad headache and my heart felt like it was about to beat out of my chest.  Mr. Marshall was just about to take me to the ER.  After about an hour I stood up and I almost hit the floor.  It was like my head was heavier than the whole rest of my body.  I started feeling bad around 6:45.  Mr. Marshall (my boss) wouldn't let me drive home until I got over all of that so I didn't get to go home until about 9:00 Tuesday night.  He followed me home then to make sure I got there okay.  Anyhow, he seems to think that it is my sugar but together with a little stress.  And daddy seems to think it's my sugar too.  If anyone has any ideas of what's going on, I am open to them!  I really haven't felt quite right since.  And I've lost almost 3 pounds since Tuesday morning.  It seems like everything is happening to me!  Thanks for your continued prayers.

I am a rather blunt individual and would have told them the truth of the matter although I would do so in loving, pastoral sort of way. Don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting that you do that. That sort of method does not work for everyone and can get a lot more problems stirred up because of it.

Yes, the devil is working hard in our churches and effecting the lives of Christians.

I would love to just tell that person that he is the reason.  Part of the reason I don't is because, as you said, it would cause trouble.  Secondly, I really don't think that a situation like that is a good excuse to stop going to church.  I would just go and act like nothing ever happened, even though that's not exactly the right thing to do either.

Thank you for your continued prayers.

I will be praying for you and your family in this as well as for your Dad's health.

I really don't like discussing the Bible with him because it always ends up talking about how the Bible that we have isn't what was actually written but a translation and its not exact and a whole other line of stuff.  That same deacon and our pastor have come over a couple of times I think while I was at work.  Everybody asks me, "What's happened to your family?" or "Where has everyone else been lately?"  I don't really know what to tell them. 

As far as his injury goes, I really don't know.  You can never know how someone else hurts.  He has his good days and his bad days.  When he would go to church before it usually depended on what kind of night he had Saturday night.  Some nights, when he does too much during the day he cramps up real bad and gets really bad muscle spasms.  That is understandable.  He has said that he doesn't want to go to church there anymore.  I think the devli is attacking my family.  I am trying to stay strong.  I just don't exactly know how.  thank you for praying for us.

Hi mjc, we have missed seeing you here.

What comes to me is that you should just concentrate on your walk with the Lord day by day.  Leave everyone else and everything else in the Hands of God....He is omnipresent and omnipotent and well able to handle them all.  Once your own walk with the Lord is alright, you will be led if you need to say anything to your family or others.

If your dad has ever trusted Christ as his Savior, the Holy Spirit is still working in his heart and will lead him.  Hopefully, he will find a church that he feels is right for him.

One thing that is really bothering me about my dad is that I know that the only way I am going to get him back into church is to move to a different church.  He is disabled, he broke his back years ago, and someone was talking about how he didn't have any reason not to be working.  Daddy overheard this conversation between two of our "deacons".  The other one actually stood up for my dad.  But, it doesn't matter.  He got all mad and decided that he wasn't going to go to church any more.  He didn't even talk to the guy about it.  When you have conflicts you are suppose to talk about it and work it out.  This happened several months ago and to this day that man still doesn't even know that my dad heard what he said.  I feel like the Lord had brought us to this church for a reason, but now, the only way daddy is going to go back is if we go somewhere else.  The same thing would probably happen elsewhere too though.  I just don't have a clue where to start.  And my horse died. 

maybe so.

thanks for the prayers.