So... my husband, myself and our oldest son are all very anti-covid vax (not vaccines in general, but this is not a vaccine, it is an experimental gene therapy, but I digress)
I’m not around people much, but my husband takes ivermectin prophylacticly, and my older son is around covid all the time (in hospitals) and has not gotten sick.
But my youngest son, is so stressed about covid. He is 19. Apparently, on social media he is getting bombarded with messages constantly about getting the vax. All of his friends were vaxxed with J&J with no issues. So, he has decided he is just going to take it. He won’t hear any reason on it - the fact that his chance of getting sick from the shot maybe more than his chance of getting severe illness from covid at his age. He has health issues that this may exacerbate. I am just sick over this, I told him my thoughts but at 19, it is his decision. I pray he will change his mind. He just wants to be done with it.
I am angry at the messaging that is making him feel he needs to do this. It is so misleading and wrong. He knows it is risky. He knows there is no undoing this. He just wants it “over with” so the ads or whatever stop bothering him and he can be free to do what he wants. He can in our state anyway, there are no mandates or restrictions around here. No mandates at work either. He has never been one to be pressured into anything, drugs, etc. This is social media brainwashing.
Long story short, please pray for him that God will make the right choice clear to him.
I need it too, brother!
I must add that we are 1. instructed not to pray in front of others (this does not mean that we cannot pray with others, we just aren't to make a show out of it) and 2. we are told specifically not to ask of the Father for he already knows our needs. (1) I feel this is to keep the Devil out of our conversations as he can see and hear us but he does not have access to our minds and our hearts (2) this will strengthen our Faith in him because if we do not have to ask and he provides our needs WOW! I do not feel that we are to ask of the Father that freely gives but to thank him for what we have, for those that have will have abundance added to them and those that have not will lose even what they do have.
Note that these are my understandings and you should definitely talk with the Father about your own journey. He is there to listen.
Sin is of the flesh and therefore also would be temptation. The Father above is not of the flesh and we should seek him above all.
I do not think that you are late to the party as I am just arriving myself. I am not a good follower of the Lord in all cases, I struggle with my flesh a lot.