Please pray for my father

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ:
I am writing to ask for prayer for my father. He is 83 years old and UNSAVED and recently has been hospitalized. He had a heart attack, but ignored the pain for weeks. It is a miracle he is still alive.
My fear for him is that he will die without knowing Christ. He has been a member of a false religion (not a Christian cult) for about 50 years and is blind to the truth of the gospel. He has not allowed me to share my faith with him. I am praying that God will use this opportunity to show my father the Truth. He lives very far from me so I have not been able to go see him. he does not feel well enough to talk on the phone.

Please pray for the salvation of my father (and mother) and that God will heal him of this illness (but this is secondary).

OHHH!! I surely will pray. I am in the same position with an 86 y/o unsaved mother with Alzheimers....Please keep us updated....God bless!

I will be praying.

Doug

Praying.

Thank you all for your prayers.

Thank you all for your prayers.

My father has had a turn for the worse. I spoke to my mother this morning about my fear that he is not saved and what might happen to him (they are not followers of Christ) and her response is why do we Christians think that we are the only ones that have a relationship with God. She told me that if that is why I want to go and see my father it is best that I do not come, since I will offend him. (I am the only one in my family who follows Christ; there has been an underlying unspoken resentment about this, since I broke away from the family's religion).

Please continue to pray that my father and mother will be saved before he passes to the next world. I feel the need to storm the gates of heaven for him.

Thank you in advance for keeping them in your prayers.

(mama: I have been in continuing prayer for your children. I will also pray for you mother)

I have been praying - will continue....if you cannot go see him, maybe God will send a nurse or someone in the hospital...will storm the gates with you...

and thank you for praying - weekends are particularly difficult. My prodigal is doused with cologne, ready to go out for the night - we do not know where....

I am praying as well.

Lord, we know that it is You and only You that can open the eyes of the blind and there are so many of us who have older ones whom we are not sure if they are truly saved or not. Lord, we pray with all our being that You will open the eyes that have not seen their need for Salvation nor see the great love and forgiveness of the Savior.

You said we can ask Lord so we are asking. Not for material things but for souls Lord, souls for Your Kingdom, for You are worthy Lord.

And we thank You Lord as we come together and hold these dear ones up to You trusting that You will open hearts, ears and eyes to see Jesus. Prepare the way Lord, prepare the hearts to receive You.

We pray for a sensitivity to the Holy Spirit as when and what to speak to them. We pray we will not be anxious to cloud out Your voice but we will spend time with You in Your Word and in prayer Lord that peace will come upon us that we may hear Your voice.

We love You our Lord and Savior, we believe, we trust, we rejoice that You are the Mighty God of all Creation and Jesus You are the Savior and lover of our souls. And Holy Spirit You are the One who works to open the eyes & hearts.

Nothing and no one is impossible with and for you. For You are God!

Now we will continue in prayer and supplications, in Your Word and trusting you with all faith.

We love You adore You, we bow down to You Lord of Lord and King of Kings, our great God, our awesome Savior and the most wonderful Holy Spirit.

In Jesus Precious & Powerful Name!

Amen!

roman, I understand your concern and fear, if you want to call it that. I also understand your frustration in not being there to speak to him. But I would like to share with you a testimony of a lady who was prohibited from visiting her brother who was deathly ill...

Shirl was banned from visiting her terminally ill brother because of her faith. They prayed that God in his mercy would speak to her brother. AND HE DID! God revealed himself supernaturally to him and he came to the LORD. There was no other human being involved.

Too many times we think that if the right person would be at the right place at the right time, a life changing decision will be made...but it is always dependent on the right person, right time. This mindset is dependent on human beings. God usually uses people, but not always. He is not dependent on them. He knows whether this person will respond to Him and when and will facilitate that process. He also knows those that will reject Him. Consider these verses:

Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Heb 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

I know this promise was made to the Jews but I would understand it is not limited to them - we see this principle at work all around us.

Pray and wait and let God be God.

(We also have a lot of loved ones away from God...one must learn to not assume the responsibility of anothers' salvation.)

God bless...and will pray for you as the Holy Spirit reminds me.

ginnyrose

Thank you all for your prayers. I know that God does not need me or anyone else to reveal Himself. I have been praying that the LORD Himself be the one to reach my father. I feel inadequate to do so unless inspired by the Spirit.

I know that "with God all things are possible." I pray that the Holy Spirit of God and our Lord Jesus the Christ reveals Himself to my father in such a powerful way that the scales will fall from his eyes and he will be able to see the truth.

My father is a good man, when compared to those in the world. He has done his best to live a good life. He feels himself ready to face the next world based on his "works" and what his religion has taught him. All in the family agree (they are all part of his religion). My saying that he is in fact not ready has been seen as an insult to his character.

I pray that the Lord has mercy on my father and his pride in rejecting Christ and His salvation. I know that my prayers are heard. Two months ago I felt led to pray, as never before, that the Lord not let my father die without Christ. I have been praying this for two months. I did not know that two months ago (the same time I started praying) my father began having heart attacks, which he ignored until two weeks ago. It is a miracle he is alive. I believe that God has kept him alive because of my prayers. I trust also that he will also answer this prayer that my father be saved through me, through another, or through a miraculous revelation.

Praise the Lord for your faith, romanchog....believing and praying with you....

Here is a sermon by Carter Conlon called, "Chopping Wood for Father," and it's about his relationship with his father and I think it is this sermon where he talks about his dad dying and he led his father to the Lord before he died. His dad would never let Carter talk to him about the Lord but in the end he did. I believe it will encourage you with your father that you can reach him!

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God bless you,
Lisa

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