praying for my mom

My mom has been on my heart so much today. She is not a christian but a practicing RCC and sadly very lost in that dead religion. She is such a lovely lady and I so hate to think that she may someday go to her eternity believing the false lies that she now holds so strongly too. I was thinking also about my dad who passed away two years ago still lost in that religion and just felt the need to pray for my mom...time seems so short, so very short...

If God should place it upon your heart to pray for her to see her need for Jesus and repent please do.

God bless
mj

Will pray for her when I pray for my own, MaryJane...it's a heartbreaker that we must leave in the hands of God...I KNOW He is not deaf to our prayers....

mama27
Thank you for your kind offer to pray for my mom. I will be praying for your mother also. You are right God does hear our prayers and I am so thankful for that. I think the one thing that has been at times difficult for me is learning to accept HIS answers to those prayers regardless of the out come. I know GOD loves my mom even more then I. Its really hard because she talks about having such deep and great love for JESUS and I know that she does but she is so caught up also in the teaching of the Catholic church, especially where Mary is concerning...

God bless
mj

I understand, MaryJane....you may have read that my mom is in middle-stage Alzheimers...they told me today that cognitively she is like a 7-10 year old. During the years when I was able to witness to her she thought she was fine because she sang for 35 years in the choir, and would tell me that her religion was a "private matter".....sigh....I understand...I will pray....

Be of good cheer. God is not limited to our way of thinking. I praise God for that too. He is so much mightier than we think.

My testimony is that my mother had a religion shoved down her throat all her life. Went to their schools up to high school. She rebelled against this religion and so did not raise us in it. PTL. But we knew that Jesus was the Son of God, Savior of the world.

Anyway, I could never share my testimony with my mother due to the religious spirit and was even constantly being put down for my faith in Jesus. But I never stopped praying.

My mother had Alzheimers as well. I cared for her for 3 years. And it was the last 6 months that it seems the Lord took away the religious spirit and opened her heart and mind to receive Jesus, repent of her sins, read the Scriptures, sing & pray for our family together. It was the best time of my life with my mother. Hurting physically one day at my home she was in the bathroom and I heard her ask the Lord to "please take me Lord" and it was about 10 mins. later she was with Him. All glory to God.

And another lady - late stages of Alzheimers - I was caring for her in her home. She was 96 her partner, a woman, was 92. They were lesbians. I kept praying for her and one day the Lord brought her to her right mind and I took her to Jesus, to repentance etc. With Alzheimers they can come and go in their degree of confusion. And after that we would sing, Jesus loves me, together. That with a sweet look on her face.

So be encouraged. Keep praying, keep sharing His love and know the Lord will open the right time for your Mothers. I will be praying with you all.

I am praying for my step dad as well. But I have the faith to know the time will come that all those seeds planted that God will bring the time when He will open his eyes completely. He too has a religious spirit. Praying for your dad as well Ann. And all our family members.

Love you all,

Sheri

Beautiful testimonies, Sheri....thank you for sharing...counting on the Lord to do what we cannot do....

Dear Ma'am,

You said that you know your dear Mother loves Jesus. What exactly does she believe that you think will bar her from going to be with Him in Heaven?

I am trying to understand exactly what and how to pray for her.

Be well dear Sister.
Doug :O)

Doug

My mom is hard core Roman Catholic. She does love the Lord but she places her trust also in Mary, the holy mother church, and all the traditions of that religion. Her faith in Jesus is one and the same as her faith in the Roman Catholic church. She is lost and deceived and I pray before it is to late she will see her need for JESUS only. I pray that the LORD will open her eyes to see JESUS alone is the way the truth and the light.

Thank you
God bless
mj

Dear Sister

You wrote:
"My mom is hard core Roman Catholic."

As a "hard-core" Protestant, my definition of a "hard-core" Roman Catholic woman would be something akin to the people who came out to picnic with their children and pray the rosary, while being amused by the sight of men, women, and children being burned at the stake for praying the Lord's prayer in their own tongue. I don't think she is that kind of "hard-core" Roman Catholic though, right?

You wrote:
"She does love the Lord but she places her trust also in Mary, the holy mother church, and all the traditions of that religion."

hmmmmm. This sounds like it could be a problem. You certainly know your poor mother best. If she really does believe in Jesus AND yet holds to the superstitions in her church as well, that could be a hindrance...

Yet, our Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. You say you know she loves Jesus... There have been those who were also caught up in the Roman fold, for whatever reason, who did still know and love the Lord Jesus, and were saved. Have you read St Francis of Assisi, or sang his hymn, "All Creatures of Our God and King?" Have you read Brother Lawrence's the Practice of the Presence of God? http://thepracticeofthepresenceofgod.com/onlinetext/

The true Gospel, the only Gospel that saves, is startlingly simple. It is encapsulated in I Corinthians 15:1-4 -

"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures..."

Ma'am, My mother-in-law is Roman catholic too. My wife and I have made the most progress with her when we stopped arguing with her about the Mass, (which she didn't even understand), and the Pope, and just began to speak to her about Jesus, and live before her the plain and simple Gospel that points squarely at Him alone. And I think she is coming, dear Sister, and I think one I day, (soon I pray), I will be able to say, she came!

May it be so with your dear mother, Ma'am, as well. May God save her to the uttermost. Even if she doesn't understand all the secondary things so well, may she one day very soon completely grasp the most important thing of all: the love of God for her in the glorious face of Jesus Christ her Lord and Saviour. AMEN.

Be well and may God abundantly bless you and yours this very day.
Doug

Doug

No my mom would not rejoice at seeing anyone harmed but she is not a fan of Luther either (smile)

When I say hard core I mean she holds to the RCC as being the one and only true church. She believes peter was the first pope. She believes Mary was born free of any sin and shared in Jesus suffering on the cross. She believes Mary was a virgin and had no other children but Jesus. She believe in praying to the dead(saints) and for the dead. She believes that her faith in Jesus and the Holy mother church are one and the same. She will not give up her faith in the church because to her that is asking her to give up Christ. She does say her rosary daily. She does understand the Mass and believes it to be a holy sacrament as well as going to confession. She does not have any trusting faith in Jesus, sadly she believes "if" she is good enough then she may make it to heaven. I love my mom and I pray for her but she is getting older. My dad died two years ago, he held on to his faith and trust in the RCC all the way through. His last moments were spent in confessing to a priest. I just pray my mom sees the truth before its to late. I have not talked with her in a long time about this because she gets so angry and feels as if you are trying to make her give up Jesus and His hold church. She does not see that she is being deceived...

I will pray for your mom in law and thank you for your prayers also.

God Bless
mj

I can imagine how you feel I was in a similar situation only it was my 13 yr old daughter who's grandmother and aunt had her baptized as a young girl I was really angry at first and tried to force the truth on her she just got upset so I stopped and on the days I had her for visitation I would take her to church and I just let my walk do the talking and things seem to be going fine I do pray her grandmother would be brought to the truth as well she and my daughters aunt both go out and drink cuss you name it and actually believe they're saved so pray for them to my point to all this is just love on her maybe invite her to church with you tell her you'll do the same and visit her church the plan is to get here to hear the word and if she's getting old maybe you can began to read to her the Gospels faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God I pray everything works out just don't give up no matter how frustrating it gets God bless you in Jesus name I'll pray for her