Please Pray for My Family Frens
Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
Yesterday, we lost my beloved son, 34 yo, to what is most likely a fentanyl overdose. Our hearts are broken, although we know he sits at the big table with Jesus right now. Addiction is one of the most gut-wrenching things a family can go through, and it touches so many. Please keep us in prayer.
I feel your pain. I too have experienced the loss of family from the scourge of drug addiction. Sadly, I still have family that are riding that knife edge playing Russian Roulette with their lives. Please accept my deepest sympathies for your devastating loss. Prayers coming your way. May his memory be for blessing.
Dear Lord, please break the bonds of addiction for u/mac1221 's family members. Draw them to salvation through your son, Jesus. Fill them with your Holy Spirit. I ask this in Jesus' Mighty name & to your glory. Amen.
Thank you so much. You can never have enough prayer. I have two nephews struggling. The oldest one was on a program and had been clean for about a year. He then had a relapse. Lately he seems to be back on track, God willing. The other is only in his early twenties and has been a handful. So far he has managed to stay in a residential program going on four weeks. He never stayed anywhere more than a day before he would leave. He was on the streets. A small move forward in a better direction. We'll take it.
God bless you fren.
God loves your nephews. Earlier today, out of the blue, I was prompted to pray for those addicted. Then I saw this post about Glory's son & your response. God wants no one to die without knowing that Jesus died for their sins. Their darkness is not too dark for him.
Thank you. With God there is no such thing as coincidence.
I know my older nephew knows this. We have talked about it - several times. The deception of addiction is an especially dark form of slavery and difficult to break. I have hope for my older nephew because this last year before he relapsed was the longest amount of time that he has stayed clean in years. He got in trouble quickly when he went off the wagon. Praise God charges were dropped and he will get out of this incident with little to no damage. He already has found a new job. But he did have to cool his jets in jail for a few days giving him time to dry out and think more clearly. I have told him many times that God has a hand on him, and because of that, he cannot run away even if he tries. But, God will make the journey more difficult to climb out of over time till the lesson is learned. Don't wander in the wilderness for 40 years.
He is talking about leaving the state and going to TX. I think it would be a good move for him just to get out of being surrounded by familiarity that makes it easier to relapse. That way old contacts would not be bouncing back into his life. Make a clean break of it all. I know many former addicts that also made a move to keep their sobriety. He has a good buddy, a recovered former addict, that has been a good influence on him. They are talking about making the move together.
The younger nephew, right now it's touch and go. His father currently lives with me so I can regularly check on my nephew's progress. So far, so good. He may actually make 30 days in this new program. Like I stated, it's a small victory, but we will take it. His parents did take him to church for several years. But how much of it stuck, I don't know. We have sent up a lot of prayers for the boy and I know the Almighty hears our prayers. Thank you for yours. Their names are Jesse and Giovani.
God bless Jesse, Giovani, and all who love & support them in their sobriety. ❤️
Thank you. : )
Thank you.
Oh glory we are heartbroken for you and your family! 💔
I'm so grateful that you have the comfort of life with Jesus where there is no more pain but everlasting joy! ☝️✨
Please know that your family here is lifting you up. 🙏🤍
No more pain, no more suffering. Thank you J1D.
Of course fren...🙏🤍
Beautifully said. Amen.
Dear Heavenly Father please be with this family in their time of desperate need.
In your sons name Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen
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So sorry for you, gloryhallelujah22, praying for peace for your whole family and comfort. 😥
Prayers up for you and your family.... Addiction is Satan on earth.... So glad your son knows Jesus
That MUST be painful for you, I am so sorry for your loss. Prayers my fren.
Get what comfort you can from frens and the Lord. Your lives have been changed forever.
Dear gloryhallelujah22, I was saddened to hear of your loss. Why do the young children and adults feel drugs are necessary to make them happy? We may never know what the impetus is that starts them down this path. It is so sad as a parent to see your child go down the path of no return, and for us, as parents, to outlive our child. May you remember the good times you had together and take comfort in knowing he is now at peace in the arms of our God.
Receiving this, thank you.
My son would have been the same age. He was taken from us by murder. The only way I made it through was footprints in the sand. Every day is a struggle but knowing we will be reunited some day gives me the strength to go on. I am so sorry you are experiencing this tragedy. I will pray for you.🙏😔
God bless you on this painful journey. Grief bends you so very low. I think that's why it attacks in waves because no human can survive it without respite. Adding anger to this emotion is beyong difficult.
In Compassionate Friends, I knew a woman who spent 10 years in grief and anger after her son was murdered. It was destroying her and her family. It's from her I learned the truth of "if you hate a man, he owns you." And one day she awakened and knew in her soul to "let go and let God".
I am so sorry. Words are not sufficient, but you shall see him again.
Prayers sent 🙏
Dear Lord, please strengthen u/gloryhallelujah22 , & all who loved their son, with your presence. Please do not let the "what ifs" & "if onlys" destroy them. Comfort them with the hope we have of salvation through Christ Jesus & fill them with your peace. Please bring them the people & resources they need to get through this dark valley as they deal with a life ended too soon. Surround them with your love & guide them in your Word that they may see you at work in their lives. I ask all this in Jesus' Mighty name & to your glory. Amen.
Amen 🙏🏼
Amen!
Oh I am so sorry fren. Many prayers with you and may you have peace. 🙏
Very sorry for your loss. May your son rest in peace. May our Divine Physician provide healing and comfort to all who are in mourning. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted (Matthew 5:4).
Praying for your family
I feel your pain. My son died the same way in 2019 at age 30. Yes, I truly believe he is in the loving arms of Jesus. I have received signs that I know are from God to let me know he is ok. Your son is, too. God loves us all very much.
I have asked for signs as well. First morning after I walked outside and rays of light emanated from the clouds and up over me. First sign.
My sincerest hope that he is now at peace at the right hand of the Father, fren. I know all too well how this disease can affect a family and it’s my worst nightmare that this plague will visit my family again. Prayers are up for you and your family; there’s nothing we can say that will truly help but if it’s any consolation, you are certainly not alone and he is not forgotten. Love and prayers my friend. RIP. WWG1WGA
May God bless and be closely with you at this time.
I cannot imagine your pain, but I send out my heart to you and your family.
So sorry for your loss. May your son rest in the eternal peace of heaven.
Prayers on the way fren.
I am so sorry for your loss. Your son is home now, with his creator. His creator has other plans for him. Know he is with you in spirit and also relearning what it's like to be an Angel again.
Praying for you and your family. Also praying for all those impacted by addiction. May everyone feel God's comforting presence during difficult times.
So sorry and praying for your family. I know what you are going through. I lost my son at 23 under similar circumstances - fatal mixture of drugs, one of them prescribed. He would have been 34 in December. I can tell you your son lives on in a different way now and there is light and spiritual growth in grief that only those who go through this kind of experience can know.
Prayer sent fren
I am so sorry, it is true and it’s painful and all family suffer. Prayers for him and your family.
So sorry for your loss, God Bless you and your family, may you find the strength during these times of sorrow.
I'm so sad to hear that. Prayers to you and your family!
Dear lord God, please take the young man that this anon and their family has recently lost into Heaven to be by your side. Please guide them safely to be with you, and comfort the family in their time of grief and need.
Thank you.
My deepest condolences!! One of my nieces (15 yrs old) died from fentanyl overdose 4 yrs ago July. I am so very sorry. Prayers 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I'm so sorry. Prayers sent ✝️
So sorry to hear that, may God be with you all.
This is close to home. My stepdaughter had been an alcoholic for many years and is now standing clear, attending college, and looking to new life with Jesus, but the path is still uphill. I'm going to be concise, in order to avoid saying far too much.
If you've heard that addiction, of any sort, is a "disease", throw that nonsense far away. It is a chosen path, nothing else, even if it starts out as a foolish curiosity. And it is a symptom of a problem that is fundamentally psychological. If the addict does not confront, identify, and reject his motives, there will be no hope. That requires the courage to pass through the heart of the trauma, which is why a group setting is helpful, to provide moral support. To the question, "Is there anything about being addicted that you want?" he must be able to answer "No." Often, it is a way to retreat from traumatic experience.
A resource that can help encourage and guide that self-realization is the lay practice of the technique of Re-Evaluation Counseling. Their website is at www.rc.org. I have experienced it personally, to good effect. It is not perfection, but is based on very sound principles of trauma recognition and resolution. Particularly of the necessity of transforming a memory of feelings into a narrative of words, for it is only with words that we can even begin to think about something. It is not a cult and is not associated with Scientology. If one reads the material at the website, that may be helpful enough. My experience is that it is never meant to pressure or impose, and any such treatment should be avoided.
Be as "real" to your addicted relative or friend as you can possibly be: loving, but candidly honest. Their whole problem is a severance from reality. You can be their lifeline to reality. They may not like references to reality, but it is human nature to turn to the truth. (Do you not notice that even evildoers in our society turn their attention to the one who is speaking truth about the world? It is always the case in politics, as we should be well aware by now.)
So much for being "concise." I am not unaware of the irony. Please take this for what good it may allow.
Thank you, I will look at the website. "Severance from reality", truth there.
Prayers up!!!🙏
I’m so sorry. I love you fren.