[__ Prayer __] pray for my neighborhood

[Christ_empowered]

I live with my parents. Its a small, southern town. People in my neighborhood despise me. They taunt me, they mess with me, they clearly aren't the happiest people around (joyful and happy people don't pick on "weaklings" to bolster their own egos), and...

...yeah. I pray for my enemies, and for forgiveness for not loving my enemies appropriately, but...I've been too stuck in what they've been dishing out to realize that they need Jesus just as surely as I do. They have their reasons for despising me. I mean, this is the south. When a former Rx pill head flamer w/ mental problems gets saved and is suddenly more masculine, healthy, and surprisingly intelligent (not a super genius, but I can handle my college-level work, and that's a huge improvement), that makes people angry. I don't know if its worse in the south, or if people are just more open about it. In more "progressive" states, I'd probably be in a state mental hospital. Forever.

So..yeah...please pray for my neighborhood and my enemies in general (I have plenty of them--stigmatized people usually do).

Thanks.

 

[Eugene]

Will do brother.

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

I will pray brother.
Keep up the good work.
Stay firm to the end.

 

[jasonc]

add my city/ county to this request. for the most part its political and will not reach violence but there is division that wasn't found here in us locals.

 

[AirDancer]

Prayers for your neighborhoods, Christ_empowered & jasonc.

The divisiveness is an almost palpable disease that is infiltrating our neighborhoods.

 

[Eugene]

Dear Brother Jason, I have no doubt in my faith that the decay of this present world is the direct result of the majority of humanity waxing worse without God, and even Christians are caught up in it with no fellowship, no daily water of the word of God, and doing their best without the leading of the Holy Spirit in their lives. May God lift you and CE above circumstance, and direct your way in holiness and peace all the days your lives. God does calm the seas for us no matter the size of the storm, and profits us as He does so. Blessings in Christ Jesus.

 

[hallowbonnie]

 

[jasonc]

Dear Brother Jason, I have no doubt in my faith that the decay of this present world is the direct result of the majority of humanity waxing worse without God, and even Christians are caught up in it with no fellowship, no daily water of the word of God, and doing their best without the leading of the Holy Spirit in their lives. May God lift you and CE above circumstance, and direct your way in holiness and peace all the days your lives. God does calm the seas for us no matter the size of the storm, and profits us as He does so. Blessings in Christ Jesus.

im not sure, this is more about the big $$$ driving that wedge with the semi-natives here or those that have a lucre problem then that. Christians whom are honest are involved in one side or the other. but that is another thread.

 

[Eugene]

im not sure, this is more about the big $$$ driving that wedge with the semi-natives here or those that have a lucre problem then that. Christians whom are honest are involved in one side or the other. but that is another thread.

It's probably both, but God knows.

 

[Christ_empowered]

The neighbors yelled recently about warrants and prison. Fun times. My dad is either completely oblivious to all the animosity towards me, or he simply doesn't want to talk about it...

 

[petester]

Stay strong.