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Sinner - Ridiculed and Sad
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Sinner - Ridiculed and Sad

Dear Lord Jesus,
I pray that today leads me to a renewed sense of self and strength as a Christian woman. I pray that the people from my past are healed by the Lord in their hatred of me.
Brief background - The person I was almost 3 years ago is not who I am today. I wasn't terrible, but could have changed a lot about who I was to not be so selfish and self-centered. I was a daily drug user, promiscuous and definitely not a Christian.
While I am still a sinner because I am not married (but in a committed relationship living with the father of my beautiful child), curse from time to time, etc. ... I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior about 2.5 years ago. In that time, I chose to let go of my friendships with some really beautiful people because they were drug addicts and gay. I chose to close the door on my drug addiction for good and have not looked back. These choices were in order to focus on my relationship with the father of my child and to raise our son with Christian values in a Christian home.
The challenge I face everyday is knowing I hurt people I was close to by ending our friendships. I am ridiculed by the group of people I ended my life with to pursue a new life as a Christian. I was told today that I "represent everything opposite of yoga; dishonesty, selfishness, close mindedness and stupidity. and your negative energy should not be out their for people to experience." I taught and still teach yoga from time to time ... Which has been greatly embraced by my Christian and non-Christian brothers and sisters. It hurts to hear the people in my past judge me out of their own hurt. They don't even know the person I am today.
I am hurt and sad that now I will be remembered by some people as an awful human being. People that I used to be friends with hate me for becoming a Christian. I have no way to be a servant to Christ to them because they think I judged them by ending the friendship. It's very hard to hear the things being said about me .... I pray for them daily and pray that they will somehow forgive me for making the choice I did. Although, I don't think it has helped. The venom is fierce.
And yet my new friends (it took me a while to create a network of Christian and some non-christian friends who are still of service to one another but just not saved), are very positive. They are prayer warriors, mothers, parents, joyful people of service to the Lord ... not drug addicts or judgmental of me.
God, please help me to have deliverance of this pain I feel from the choice I made. Please God help them to forgive me for leaving my old friendships behind. Please God help them in their own life to be of service to you and to your will. God I pray that as I confess my faults to you daily, you will help me to be a better person.
- Amen.
09-07-2010 09:33 AM
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Father I pray that you lift this Christian woman above all the slings and arrows - and above all the painful memories of the past - and embrace her with your love and fill her mind with your peace, in your name Jesus I pray
09-07-2010 11:23 AM
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Father, thank you that this Guest walked away from friendships that included drug use. Addiction is a disease of both the substance and geographic area of use. In the early stages of withdrawal it is critical to stay away from the places and people that use...as it can debilitate the effort to remain sober. Father...let this guest realize that Christ was subjected to much ridicule also and much criticism...he bore it without so much a murmur from his lips as he understood that this is very much the way people are made. I feel the hurt that this woman feels from friends who she feels were hurt by her withdrawal of the friendship...but perhaps it was not the withdrawal itself that she regrets but the way it was done? Father comfort her with the knowledge that her first priority is her children and her family...let her rejoice that they have a mother that is sober and leading them in the way of the Lord. Let her ask forgiveness as she has done for any hurt she caused...and know in her heart you have granted it Father...and let her know that her life will be blessed by the decision she made. In Jesus name...Amen!
09-07-2010 11:34 AM
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Dear Havenly Father The Kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven forgive us are sin as we for give are debtor and lead us not into temptiation but deliver us from evil Please answer this person prayer acord to your will and bless there life Lord and we give you all the priase honor and glory in all of this. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY AMEN.

Sincerly: Steven Danielsen
John 14:14 If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
09-07-2010 01:15 PM
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Dear Lord,please have mercy on this woman.
In the Name of the Lord,right now I command to all the power of darkness and curses to leave this woman! Now!
I pray that Your will to be done in her life.
You are the King of kings and Your Name is Wonderful.
Thank You my Lord

Warrior Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection.For them the second death holds no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him a thousand years.
01-23-2012 04:16 AM
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