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crsschk
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| | Requesting your prayers ... | | Just found out that my niece apparently tried to take her life ... She has been unconscious since sometime late Monday afternoon. The doctors think she will recover ...
Please, pray for my Aunt Bev and Teri, they lost a son, brother - my cousin around this time a few years ago
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tjservant
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| | Re: Requesting you prayers ... | | Praying brother
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PaulWest
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| | Re: Requesting you prayers ... | | Will pray, brother. I've actually just returned ten minutes ago from removing a 37 year-old male who killed himself by shooting his arm up with some mega cc's of Propofol. His mother stopped by his house and found him in his bedroom, dead in his bed with a huge needle sticking out of his arm. I took him to get autopsied and then to the funeral home. This is the time when we begin to get all the suicides; around the end of the year. It never fails - I'll get a death call on Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. As a matter of fact, ever since I've worked the industry, I've always gotten a call each Christmas Eve at around midnight. My wife and I sit at home and look at the tree and sip hot cocoa and listen to carols...and the phone. When it rings, she knows I have to leave...and she goes on to bed alone.
Praise God that your niece is still alive. This is truly suicide season. I'm glad the Lord prevented her demise. It's a wake-up call to seek God for our unsaved family members...before it's too late for prayer.
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| | Re: | | Praying Brother!
Heavenly Father, we ask you to deliver my brothers niece from the stronghold of suicide and cause her to live. Thank you, Lord, for keeping her from death. Bless her family and may Thanksgiving Day be exceedingly joyful because of your mercy and grace. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
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Prayed and will pray again later bro.
The Lord is good
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AbideinHim
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| | Re: Requesting you prayers ... | | Mike,
I have prayed for your niece, Aunt, and Teri.
I would appreciate the prayers of the saints for my oldest son Matthew. He has been fighting addiction to pain killers for some time now, and it is affecting his marriage. I believe that if he returns to the Lord with all of his heart, that the Lord will deliver him, so this is the first priority in prayer.
In His Love,
Mike
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| | Re: Requesting you prayers ... | | Dear Brother Mike,
I agree in prayer with the saints for your niece. How dreadful the holidays are for many. I so so thank the Lord for sparing your niece. May she eventually see His hand on her life through this.
I know the reality of this time of year and the effects brother Paul. I buried my brother 20 years ago on Christmas Eve. He took his life and there is no need to know the details, but I was backslidden at the time. It has been quite struggle with guilt over the years that I have battled. He was tormented though and I had to accept that I was not his saviour.
Brother Paul, I cannot imagine the job that the Lord has you in. I'm sure it must lay such an incredible burden on you to pray for these hopeless ones and their families. May you weep like the prophets over your area.
God Bless, Kathleen
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crsschk
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| | Requesting you prayers ... | | Saints, thank you
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PaulWest
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I know the reality of this time of year and the effects brother Paul. I buried my brother 20 years ago on Christmas Eve.
Two Christmas Eves ago I got a phone call around 11:30 PM to remove a man who asphyxiated on his own vomit. He was drinking with his brother and passed out on his back. When he vomited and started spasming, his brother was too drunk to think coherently...and instead of turning him over, freaked out and called EMS. By the time the ambulance arrived, it was too late for the paddles. He was gone. I remember walking intothe house and seeing the tree, the lights, the Christmas decorations...and a dead guy on the floor. His other brother sat in a corner, smoking a trembling cigarette as he watched us shoud the body in a sheet while the forensic guys took their photographs.
Last year I cremated a woman who overdosed on barbituates on Christmas Eve. This was a well-off woman who lived with her successful husband in a good neighborhood. Her kids were in prestigious colleges, and were on route to Texas when she killed herself. Totally unexpected, no one had any idea she was depressed. I remember calling her husband when her cremated remians were at the funeral home, and the call went to the answering machine. It was her voice, very cheerful, saying she and Richard (I don't remember his name) were out right now, but would return the call as soon as they returned. In the backround you could hear tinkling Christmas chimes and sleighbells. She wished the caller a Merry Christmas, and there wasn't a sad note in her voice. Her death was certainly ruled a suicide, as she had swallowed all the contents in her medicine cabinet.
We need to be vigilant especially this time of the year. When I think of "White Christmas" now, I think of the "fields are white" and ready for the harvest.
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