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octoberose:
Sometimes I open my bible trying to find something. Direction, comfort, wisdom .  Even after all this time I sometimes go away empty handed ( empty hearted). Tonight when I really need it is one of those nights. There are so many promises but I don't know how to walk in them.
 Peace does not want to come .  Joy is a concept to me and not a fruit of His Spirit. My children are in trouble and God is so quiet.  If you want to, pray for my children who all are struggling with different things.
 I've put this under General Discussion, so please tell me where you go, what you pray and read and believe when you are where I am.

Dennis Vogel:
I'm very sorry and I understand. It's much harder when these things happen to our children than to us.

Musterseed:
Octoberrose, my heart feels for you.
I can hear Ray’s words when these days of sorrow come.” Getting saved is the hardest
thing you will ever go through in this lifetime, are you hearing me” I knew I would suffer but I did not take into account that I would also watch my children suffer.I had no idea and they have suffered terrible things. I realized I could not save them as I always tried in the past. I prayed for God to take them. To lift this burden. I begged Him . God taught me that my children are His .
He is their Saviour , not me. I can love my children , support them in their trials, be a loving parent. As much as I tried to help the more I saw their blindness. It’s heartbreaking and seems to never end. But someday it will.
Psalm 24:5
They will receive Blessing from the Lord and vindication from God their Saviour.
Psalm 25 is soothing for the soul., I will pray for your family. One day , all families will be Blessed
Imagine that. ❤️   In Christ,,, Pamela

yello62:
to piggyback off what pamela has written;

i don't have children, so i don't know the pain of watching them go through difficulties.  i do, however, know the pain of watching someone you love go through difficulty, and have had a fair amount of it in my own lifetime.  my father got early onset alzheimers, in his mid-50s.  it was a deeply painful experience for me that caused me to doubt the existence of God.  i was a teenager at the time, and had many things placed on me as a result.  i reacted badly, and started doing very bad things to myself.  drugs, alcohol, and many, many other things.  all of those things were used by The Father to eventually bring me where He wanted me.  all of them were placed in my life by Him for Him to accomplish His will in my life.  very, very painful.  very, very difficult, but ultimately they are tools in the hands of The Father, and He will use those experiences for good.  if there is any consolation i may offer, it would be that.  i have been brought to a place where even in deep difficulty, and i am currently in very difficult times, i may well not survive my current health crisis.  but i have confidence that this, and everything that has come into my life, has its purpose in the hands of our loving Creator, who will show Himself powerful in our pain.

Wanda:
Octoberose,

I know your pain. My oldest son was a fighter pilot in the Iraq war, and he was there in that horror for eighteen long months. Everday was worse than the day before, always expecting the men in uniforms to come knocking on my door. I was tortured by what he was doing to others and certain God would show no mercy as a result.

We both survived, and I couldn't have known then, but having gone through that experience I was being given the strength for all to come after. I know without a doubt he is with you at this time, even if you can't feel it, and something good will come of this, and when the time is right it will be made known to you.

My prayers and thoughts are with you.

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