PLEASE PRAY

Praise the Lord. I hope brothers and sisters will read this and keep us in prayers.

Please keep me and my family in prayers as we are going through a difficult period wherein I am really going through a period of despair, depression and gloom. Jesus saved me 7 years back. After coming to the Lord, it was Lord’s grace that I married to a girl from my church.. We didn’t have child for almost 2 years and God blessed us with a baby girl but she was 6 months premature baby and she is going through lot of difficulties. We kept her name Leah Jemima. I was a Hindu Brahmin before and My wife was roman Catholic before.

Before coming to the Lord, we both had very bad childhood days. We went through lot of abuses and testing paths. It was a nightmare. Not that I expected something comfortable life. We prayed day and night and when we are blessed with the baby like this, we are so heartbroken. My wife still keeps on praying but I lost all the hope. There is no comfort from the people (believers) here as I thought It will be like the church of Acts. But everybody on their own prosperity preaching in a small way or a big way. I am confused with the teachings. The only answer I get is because of my sin I got like this or because of my sin of the fathers or some attack of the enemy. Last 3 years people hardly come to our house and pray except one sister who keeps on praying. God has given me so much of revelation I could barely speak. They shut my mouth and point out to my baby.

I once had so zeal for the Lord and I feel I completely lost everything. I lost my prayer timings and rarely I read the bible. I don’t know what to do.

My baby had bleeding in the brain when she was born and because of that she wont be able to do things on her own like holding the head, turning, sitting and walking. Still she is struggling to do. We have to teach her and she is already going to the physiotherapist for this. Now she is 2½ years old and she already had two eye surgeries and an operation near the heart to adjust one blood cell. I have no idea what is happening but I couldn’t concentrate on anything. Till now she cannot crawl, sit, walk or talk. On top of that she had convulsions which needs treatment.

I am just hoping God can do anything but nothing seems to be happening in my life. Because of this I lost all my hope and I am sinking in depression. My wife, though ridiculed by everybody, with little strength she had, keeping her hopes on Jesus. The suffering she had on these times when my baby born. I cannot explain the pain physically and mentally she gone through. Please pray for me and my family and give me some assurance that God has not forgotten us.

Please email me at ethan.sv@gmail.com. Please pray for my baby to be healed and be like a normal baby.

Ethan, brother...

But everybody on their own prosperity preaching in a small way or a big way. I am confused with the teachings. The only answer I get is because of my sin I got like this or because of my sin of the fathers or some attack of the enemy. Last 3 years people hardly come to our house and pray except one sister who keeps on praying. God has given me so much of revelation I could barely speak. They shut my mouth and point out to my baby.

I am just hoping God can do anything but nothing seems to be happening in my life. Because of this I lost all my hope and I am sinking in depression. My wife, though ridiculed by everybody, with little strength she had, keeping her hopes on Jesus. The suffering she had on these times when my baby born. I cannot explain the pain physically and mentally she gone through. Please pray for me and my family and give me some assurance that God has not forgotten us.

I can assure you my friend, God has not forgotten you or your family. Neither have those who are your faithful brethren. Please touch bases again soon Ethan.

...one sister who keeps on praying...

May God strengthen her all the more.

...Ethan I promise you to pray tonight and in the morning for starters.

Amen Mike. I add my promise to pray as well. Count on it!

Now there are three who God has burdened to persist in prayer for you. Do you still think He has forgotten you or your family?

God loves you brother, your wife, and your precious baby. We will pray fervently on this matter.

Blessings,

MC

thank u. May God bless u brothes and sisters

Ethan, my brother.

My heart is churning with a compassion for you and your family, for Leah Jemima ... what a beautiful name! At the same time and I apologize before hand, I must express the crushing that came about from these words;

I am confused with the teachings.

They shut my mouth and point out to my baby.

My wife, though ridiculed by everybody, with little strength she had, keeping her hopes on Jesus. The suffering she had on these times when my baby born. I cannot explain the pain physically and mentally she gone through.

For all that we may be indignant about, for all the controversy that is loved to be a sort of sport amongst the 'prophets' and pundits, wrangling over newspaper headlines, bitting and devouring each other over theological constructs that could have all the weight in the world behind it and be brought to ruin because there is NO love, no heartrending concern, just the wasteland of a prideful presumption of holding to some knowledge of a precept that is altogether void and hollow...

Jud 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

... I must wonder aloud here, is this what the Lord meant when He stated;

[i]And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.[/i]?

Not the iniquity of the world, but of the so called 'saints'? This all seems rather out of place here and am speaking from tears and anguish as much as indignation. It needed to be said. Enough! Enough of this madness!

Ethan, you are on my heart dear brother. Keep at it regardless of what is seen and what may be said. Your precious wife knows something of a profound truth Ethan, rest on her faith while yours is being restored, it will come again as you press on through this difficulty. Know that there are your own brethren praying diligently for you and for Leah Jemima.

I will keep this up before all here, that intercession be made on your families behalf.

[i]Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.[/i] Isa 26:3

Hello Ethan...

I am praying and asking friends and family members to pray as well. I am also spreading the request concerning your mom, Mike. Our Father is strong and mighty!

:-)

I too am praying for you, your wife, and precious child dear brother. May God lift you up.

Leah Jemima

... has become etched in my heart brother.
Praying without ceasing.

Ethan,
Please know that Jesus is interceding for you and your Precious Family, that your faith fail not.
It is my Prayer that He will become as real to you, as the very breath you breathe.
Jesus is an ever present help, weather we feel like He is near or not.
He has promised to never leave us nor forsake us. Heb. 13:5 b.
Don't pay any attention to the Prosperity people.
They do not teach the True Doctrine of Jesus Christ.
We do suffer in this World, because the Word of God speaks about our afflicions.
I don't know how God will work in you and your Family, but I have seen Him answer too many Prayers to not believe Him.
May the Peace of God keep your heart and mind, through Christ Jesus our Lord.
He hasn't forgotten you.
God Bless
Nellie

But everybody on their own prosperity preaching in a small way or a big way. I am confused with the teachings. The only answer I get is because of my sin I got like this or because of my sin of the fathers or some attack of the enemy.

Please remember that Job was not afflicted because of his sin or the sins of his fathers. He was afflicted because God trusted him, and loved him. In the end, he got to see the glory of God because he was faithful to God through the trials. He lost everything - all of his kids, all of his wealth, all of his servants, his friends mocked him. But his heart was continually set on God. It hurt to go through all of that, but in it he got to see God. I have found the same in my life. God tests our love for Him through trials. And if you continue to set our heart and mind on Him through it all, your pain will be eased and peace will fill your heart heart. You will see Jesus in an even deeper way and your love for Him will increase. Trials are the best way to grow as a christian, so when we face trials of any kind our reaction should first be to thank God that He is helping us to grow.

Shankar

Still praying brother

Brother Mike,

Thank you brother for your prayers. I am uplifted by your words. May God continue to keep His face shine upon you and gives you peace. How is your mother doing now? Today my wife went for a meeting and had word spoken to her from the book of Ezekiel that the dry bones will live. May God bless you and your family.

My real name is Shankar (Ethan is my christian name)

Hi Shankar,

Prayers are ongoing brother. For Leah and yourself and your dear wife. My mom is doing very well, thank you. They just moved her to another facility for therapy.

Have been wanting to add something... About forgiving those who have caused you so much grief. I had to forgive them from the heart, even while recanting nothing from the words. It is heartbreaking to hear these things, pray the Lord will guide you into all truth dear brother.