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My name is Joe and I've been here for awhile now, but this thread is for a man that I've held very close to my heart and has lately gone downhill, badly. His name is Jack Smith and he is my stepdad, and well, lately in the past 2 years, he's gotten started down a terrible, terrible path. It all started when he walked out on me and my mom 2 years ago, the day after Easter, for her best friend, while at the same time, being a minister in the Church Of God. Since then, he has done things that are just not Christianlike, whatsoever, and even before the divorce started, he began going downhill, doing things like holding a gun to my head, convincing me to hate my mother and well, just being an all out evil person.
For the past 2 years though, he has made the divorce between him and my mom so long and drawn out that it isn't even something to shrug your shoulders at. This man used to be a good person. He was at one time Sunday School Superintendent, a preacher, asked to be the next pastor of the Church, should the older one ever retire or decide to leave, he used to go to nursing homes to preach, he sang, he did a lot for the Lord and has now turned his back on Him, and for what? He ruined my reputation in my old community, got me booted from my mother's home by creating circumstances that she couldn't control. Then when she confronted him and asked "How can you do this to your own son?" He replies "He was never my son to begin with". This man raised me from the time I was a year old, taught me everything I know about the Lord and has now turned his back on the one person he taught me to love and follow with all of my heart.
I'm 23 years old, and have a younger brother named Nathaniel, who is just 5 years old and we have been separated now for the past 2 years because of the things this man has done. Right now, Jack has been identified and considered a threat as well as dangerous by CPS, 2 attorneys, and a court of West Virginia, because he is a control freak as well, and is losing this control that he has. Every time we get 2 steps ahead with the divorce, he does something to toss us back by 5 more steps, and he just needs help, badly from the Lord. Please pray for this man that God will touch him and direct him once more as well as renew his mind and make him stop what he is doing so that his actions do not cost others more in time. What we are concerned for right now is the fact that my mother is being forced to move back to the state of WV, as well as moving back into the home that Jack is in, but forcing him out, if he refuses to come up with a settlement soon and settle outside of court.
If she moves back into that home, there is a good chance that she could turn up missing, considering that the house is located in the mountains, on top of a hill behind an even larger mountain, and he told her once that those mountains are large enough that anyone could disappear and it'd take awhile for someone to find them, if possible. Please pray that Jack will see the error of his ways and that God will save him again and that He will touch the situation at hand so that my mother does not have to move back. Right now, the situation looks almost dire for her, and as if she has no choice, but I'm keeping faith and I still say that there's a slight chance she won't be moving, and I'm trusting in God for that. But the main person here who needs prayer is Jack.
If you read this topic, then please, do not look at it as "unimportant", or "small", but just keep in mind that there is a lost soul on his way to HELL unless God intervenes, and I need a ton of people to pray for this man. I don't care how many will say that they'll pray just as long as someone responds. Start prayer chains, get in touch with your pastors, youth groups, youth ministers, anyone that you can think of that will pray, please contact them and email this thread to them or call them and read it to them over the phone, but please, we must pray for this soul. I know that the things he has done are indeed horrible and he may well end up going to prison for some of this stuff, but we still need to pray for him that God will turn him around and make him see that this is not the way to behave and that a true Child of God does not act or behave in this sort of manner. Like I said, this is a topic that needs a LOT of prayer, and I know that prayer makes a difference, because I've seen it work before and I owe my stepdad that much, for teaching me about God and the power of prayer. If not for him teaching me what I know now, I don't think I'd be alive today.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS NEED.
For the past 2 years though, he has made the divorce between him and my mom so long and drawn out that it isn't even something to shrug your shoulders at. This man used to be a good person. He was at one time Sunday School Superintendent, a preacher, asked to be the next pastor of the Church, should the older one ever retire or decide to leave, he used to go to nursing homes to preach, he sang, he did a lot for the Lord and has now turned his back on Him, and for what? He ruined my reputation in my old community, got me booted from my mother's home by creating circumstances that she couldn't control. Then when she confronted him and asked "How can you do this to your own son?" He replies "He was never my son to begin with". This man raised me from the time I was a year old, taught me everything I know about the Lord and has now turned his back on the one person he taught me to love and follow with all of my heart.
I'm 23 years old, and have a younger brother named Nathaniel, who is just 5 years old and we have been separated now for the past 2 years because of the things this man has done. Right now, Jack has been identified and considered a threat as well as dangerous by CPS, 2 attorneys, and a court of West Virginia, because he is a control freak as well, and is losing this control that he has. Every time we get 2 steps ahead with the divorce, he does something to toss us back by 5 more steps, and he just needs help, badly from the Lord. Please pray for this man that God will touch him and direct him once more as well as renew his mind and make him stop what he is doing so that his actions do not cost others more in time. What we are concerned for right now is the fact that my mother is being forced to move back to the state of WV, as well as moving back into the home that Jack is in, but forcing him out, if he refuses to come up with a settlement soon and settle outside of court.
If she moves back into that home, there is a good chance that she could turn up missing, considering that the house is located in the mountains, on top of a hill behind an even larger mountain, and he told her once that those mountains are large enough that anyone could disappear and it'd take awhile for someone to find them, if possible. Please pray that Jack will see the error of his ways and that God will save him again and that He will touch the situation at hand so that my mother does not have to move back. Right now, the situation looks almost dire for her, and as if she has no choice, but I'm keeping faith and I still say that there's a slight chance she won't be moving, and I'm trusting in God for that. But the main person here who needs prayer is Jack.
If you read this topic, then please, do not look at it as "unimportant", or "small", but just keep in mind that there is a lost soul on his way to HELL unless God intervenes, and I need a ton of people to pray for this man. I don't care how many will say that they'll pray just as long as someone responds. Start prayer chains, get in touch with your pastors, youth groups, youth ministers, anyone that you can think of that will pray, please contact them and email this thread to them or call them and read it to them over the phone, but please, we must pray for this soul. I know that the things he has done are indeed horrible and he may well end up going to prison for some of this stuff, but we still need to pray for him that God will turn him around and make him see that this is not the way to behave and that a true Child of God does not act or behave in this sort of manner. Like I said, this is a topic that needs a LOT of prayer, and I know that prayer makes a difference, because I've seen it work before and I owe my stepdad that much, for teaching me about God and the power of prayer. If not for him teaching me what I know now, I don't think I'd be alive today.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS NEED.