Family Intercessors needed...

[Rhoni]

Thank-you all for your words of encouragement and prayer. Back in the day...my mother was a super-soul winner...hundreds of people prayed through to the Holy Ghost in our home over coffee and the word.

From the Home Bible Study Course, In my Father's House, the slide show, The Turning Point, and last but not least the bus ministry was hundreds strong all begun by my mother.

I grew up hearing my mother pray, speak in tongues, sing in tongues, interpret in English, and prophesy. I always prayed that God would do with me as he did with Elisha and gave him a double portion of what God blessed Elijah with. I wanted a double portion of what my mother had.

Mom got discouraged when, while she was worshipping God and bringing her 5 children to church alone...my brother was being molested in the back rooms of the church during service.

Mom felt that God should have honored her faithfulness, her witnessing, and prayer life and protected her son. She has anger built up inside her that comes out in the most inopportune times and it is to the point that we always worry about what she will tell others.

I don't have the answers for her...all I know is that God allowed us to be raised in an ultra-conservative church to protect us from so many things. I always thought it was funny that everyone at JCM thought I was a preacher's kid [I was but my mom the preacher]. In all actuality, my father and step-father were both alcoholics. I was never very naive. My biological father lived over a bar in downtown Memphis and I would stay with him during many holidays when JCM was closed.

I had access to any type of liquor and drug that anyone would wonder about, and all the sexual addictions that were prevalent in that drug/alcohol culture...but God protected me. I have never tried drugs, not even smoked a joint. My husband was the first man I had ever been with, and I am not an alcoholic. My first cousin died of a drug overdose in her early twenties leaving behind 2 children.

My mother was not the only one who got discouraged...I became discouraged over UPCI politics and church trouble. I was under the impression that all Apostolics were Christians and would do the right thing...but I found out it isn't so.

My mother always told me I was beautiful, talented, intelligent and I could do or be anything I wanted to be/do....and I believed her until I was 33 years old. Then I found out just how imperfect and human I really was.

Despite my failings and shortcomings, God spared my life, allowed me to raise two Godly children, and see my grandchildren born. God allowed me to finish two degrees in college and has led me through valley after valley but also mountain top after mountain top.

God has spoken things into my soul that he wants to do and accomplish in me but the devil sends naysayers to buffet and discourage me...and he uses family to do it. But...

T.D. Jakes spoke an excellent message today that I believe with all my heart. God formed those who forged the weapons used against me...but they will not prosper. God will have his way with me and my family despite what others say or the devil will try to do. God is in control.

I said all that to say this...my family will be saved because my mother spent hours, days, months, and years in praying, fasting, and blessing her family and God is pulling those prayers out now...when we need them most.

I trust Jesus to do as he said he would do.

In His Grip, Rhoni

[OneAccord]

This is healing. Healing begins when we voice our hurts. Healing begins when we face our demons, and let them see we stand victorious. And you do stand, straight and tall.. My prayers are with you and your family that they will come to know that it was people, and not God that failed them. It was religion that failed to keep them safe from harm, but the loving arms of the Master still hold them close. The naysayers may buffet you, they may try to bring you down, but in Gods time, you, Sister, will rise and prevail.

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by OneAccord

This is healing. Healing begins when we voice our hurts. Healing begins when we face our demons, and let them see we stand victorious. And you do stand, straight and tall.. My prayers are with you and your family that they will come to know that it was people, and not God that failed them. It was religion that failed to keep them safe from harm, but the loving arms of the Master still hold them close. The naysayers may buffet you, they may try to bring you down, but in Gods time, you, Sister, will rise and prevail.

I believe this...every word.

Blessings, Rhoni

[Michael Phelps]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

If we truly believe that things have a purpose and God has our best interest at heart...then my family has gathered in Texas for such a time as this. My mother and three sisters are all in one place after 30+ years. There are 'issues' that we all bring to the table but I believe God has healing in store for my family. Would you please pray for us? No...I mean intercede.

Thank you so much,

Rhoni

You are in our prayers here!

[Rhoni]

Originally Posted by Michael Phelps

You are in our prayers here!

Thank-you

[Sister Alvear]

just wondering if all is well, my friend?

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Rhoni

If we truly believe that things have a purpose and God has our best interest at heart...then my family has gathered in Texas for such a time as this. My mother and three sisters are all in one place after 30+ years. There are 'issues' that we all bring to the table but I believe God has healing in store for my family. Would you please pray for us? No...I mean intercede.

Thank you so much,

Rhoni

Rhoni,
My family is in the same need. I understand and will pray of a relationship based on equal respect and love.

Nathan

[Trouvere]

Amen Sister.You have done anything and become anything that you set your mind to.Your mama was right.My father used to tell me the same.He believed in me.That belief led to me knowing that anything is possible.You may just be dust but God remembers.lv you and praying for you.

[Rhoni]

I think you know I love the Lord. There is something that I'd like you to pray about...I am so angry. The anger is built up inside me and is always festering under the surface. I don't think that it will change unless God changes my heart. I am at the point of desperation.

Please pray for me.

Thank-you,
Rhonda

Originally Posted by Rhoni

I think you know I love the Lord. There is something that I'd like you to pray about...I am so angry. The anger is built up inside me and is always festering under the surface. I don't think that it will change unless God changes my heart. I am at the point of desperation.

Please pray for me.

Thank-you,
Rhonda

Rhoni,

I will be praying! I too fight this subcutaneous fury! It is always right there under the surface and I can hide it most of the time but when alone it come boiling to the surface and explodes in such a way that even I am surprised.

I will have faith for you if you will have faith for me. Isn't it strange how much easier it is to believe for someone else than it is to believe for yourself?

in Jesus name!