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keth30:
Please pray for my daughter.  Her name is Rosanna, and she is sixteen years old.  We have been having problems with her for a long time.  I have done everything I feel that I can.  She left home yesterday, on her own accord to live with friends.  I knew it was going in that direction.  She has been abusive to me and her little brother for the last couple of weeks.  I have been hanging on, and making excuses for her, not wanting to let her go.  I'm scared.  I'm devestated.  I don't know what to do.  I telling myself she is in God's hands, but my stomach is in knots, and I can't sleep.  Please please pray that God will have mercy and keep her safe until she finds her way home.  Thank you.


Keth30

mrl1970:
I will pray for her. 

Robin:
Hi Keth30,

I know your pain and fear very well.

I will pray for Rosanna and for you. Are there drugs or alcohol involved with your daughter?

Many hugs,
MG

keth30:
alcohol, I am sure of because she told me.  She says she is not doing drugs, but her behavior is so erratic that I cannot rule it out.  This has been going on for a while.  In eighth grade she was diagnosed with a tumor on her ovary.  It was a pretty awful time for our family.  It was benign, but until they removed it, no one knew.  During this time, she missed most of the school year and we home schooled her.  She was a straight A student up to that point.  Then she started her freshman year of highschool, and she fell apart.  She started flunking everything, skipping school, and running away.  She was even busted for shoplifting once when she was visiting my parents out of state.   It's been like a roller coaster ride, because she would always be apologetic and promise that she would change and it would renew our hope.  We have tried extensive counseling to no avail.  My daughter is highly intelligent.  She's is stunningly beautiful and has so much potential.  It's heart breaking not to be able to reach her.   

She hates God, so she says, and doesn't know why I always have to bring him up.  Her language and abuse towards her family is so foul, that I cannot even repeat the things she has said to us.  It's like she has become this person that I don't recognize.  I get little glimmers here and there, but she only lives in the moment without regard to what the future holds for her and what consequences may be for the choices she makes now.   I just cannot believe that it has reached this point, as I always thought that she would turn it around.  Again thank you.

Sozo:
Hello Keth,

Please know that we will all be praying for you and Rosanna. 

I couldn't even begin to offer you any advice, but maybe the truth will give you some encouragement.  God is in complete control!  Maybe he is taking Rosanna through this for her sake, your sake or the sake of your entire family...only he knows the purpose of this.  If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it is this:  When I have lost complete control, I realize that I was never in control at all.

So rest in this truth...God is in control of everything that you and Rosanna are going through and he knows what is best and exactly what you need when you need it. 

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 11:28-30

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