[__ Prayer __] Urgent Prayer for Kurt !!!

[vja4Him]

I just got off the phone with Kurt, from Celebrate Recovery. I can't reveal the details, but Kurt needs immediate prayer. What he shared with me is very serious, and he is just about at his wits end.

I'm afraid that he may do something terrible, that he will regret. Please keep praying for Kurt. I don't think he is a Christian yet, but he is really searching. He has a Bible and talks about reading it, and goes to our church sometimes, and attends Celebrate Recovery at our church every Tuesday.

Pray that God will keep Kurt from doing anything bad, and protect Kurt from the enemy, and those evil thoughts ....... and also protect his mother. Kurt is probably about my age (48), maybe a couple years older. He wants desparately to be set free from alcohol, drugs, violence and crime, and has nowhere to turn. He is living with his parents (father is 75 years old and a terrible, wicked, violent, mean, man, and abuses Kurt's mother terribly). His mother is a Catholic.

That's about all I can say for now. My heart really goes out for this guy. I'm honored that he would even call me and share his personal business and troubles.

 

[lovely]

4him, I will pray for, Kurt. The Lord bless you.

 

[vja4Him]

Prayer For Kurts Safety and Recovery

4him, I will pray for, Kurt. The Lord bless you.

Thanks for praying for Kurt. I can really feel the pain and suffering that Kurt is going through. I just want to agree with you in prayer, and ask others to agree in prayer for this dear brother (probably not a brother in the Lord). He calls me brother, and I call him brother too, out of respect. I want Kurt to know that somebody really does care.

He has had a terrible childhood, watching his father abuse his mother physically and verbally for so many years, and just recently beginning rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction. Kurt has also been suffering from serious injury from several accidents at work, and several car accidents, probably resulting from drugs and alcohol.

I think he is lucky to even be alive! Kurt is presently on disability leave from his job. His employer is paying for everything for now. I just pray that he doesn't give up like so many people do. I see lots of guys coming to the program at Celebrate Recovery only once, and never come back. But there are lots of people, women, men, and children, who are making progress.

God, give my friend Kurt protection from Satan, and give Kurt strength to control himself. Reveal yourself to Kurt, Heavenly Father, and convict Kurt to keep thinking about You, and to pick up his Bible and read Your word. Give Kurt Your peace Holy Father, and help him through this difficult and even tragic time in his life, and give Kurt victory, in Jesus name. Amen.

 

[greyfeather]

I will pray for Kurt and keep him in prayer, I have dealt with this same issue with a family memeber as well as myself so I know what he's going through and I also know that God can and will help him. You are a good friend and I pray Kurt receives Gods word and excepts the Lord into his heart. God may he bless you.



Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.

 

[cly]

I will pray.

 

[Relic]

Pray that God will keep Kurt from doing anything bad, and protect Kurt from the enemy, and those evil thoughts ....... and also protect his mother. Kurt is probably about my age (48), maybe a couple years older. He wants desparately to be set free from alcohol, drugs, violence and crime, and has nowhere to turn. He is living with his parents (father is 75 years old and a terrible, wicked, violent, mean, man, and abuses Kurt's mother terribly). His mother is a Catholic.

my prayers are there also,

many times intervention is what a person needs along with being held accountable for all of his actions. Discipline doesn't work if you don't work it. If he really wants to be set free he will Give it up and not repeat. If drugs are his driving force to continue on with the criminal activity, then he needs to be monitored. He should be placed in a rehabilitaion center of some sort. One with a program that works. Not one that just dries them up and lets them go.

If Kurt is in a cycle in which he refuses to break in spite of others trying to help him, then what else is there to do? Prayer is good, and faith behind that pray will bring results. Jesus guarantees that much.

However, Faith without works is dead. He must come to the mercy of the Lord by being willing to give it all up. That means to just stop doing that which keeps him in bondage to what is tormenting him. If he really seriously looks to Jesus to help him stay strong in overcoming, then so be it. But if he isn't going to be truly serious and persistant in his efforts, then he asks in vain. If he doesn't get the message about what it means to be accountable and to completely turn around his behavior, to let it go. to just drop it totally, then what good is it if he takes nothing seriously and just shruggs off all the help that is offered to him? He must first be serious. not just cry when the chips are down.

Sorry if I seem harsh, but I dealt with addicts all too much. I know nothing happens until they "get serious" and make a 180 degree turn around in their behavior. Sometimes cold turkey is the only thing that works. That is why I said, he needs to enter into a rehabilitation center that has a program that won't just dry him up and set him free. He needs a program that will teach him how to function as a drug free person.


I was married to a man who was an alcholic who popped pills as a supliment to his drinking. It took him over 20 years to get help from AA. And in the interim, he ended up in the hospital about three times that I know of becuase of being so drunk he was considered over doses. No one can help a person that is stubborn in their own sin and refusing to stop.

Sometimes you have to use tough love on people like that. Kindness is not going to sink in and they see they can just use you to cry on your shoulder without getting any "real" help at all. sympathy is not what those people need. They need tough love.

The gratitude comes after the fight!


God bess him and give him the insight he needs to carry onward in victory and snap out of his stupor.



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[vja4Him]

Pray that God will keep Kurt from doing anything bad, and protect Kurt from the enemy, and those evil thoughts ....... and also protect his mother. Kurt is probably about my age (48), maybe a couple years older. He wants desparately to be set free from alcohol, drugs, violence and crime, and has nowhere to turn. He is living with his parents (father is 75 years old and a terrible, wicked, violent, mean, man, and abuses Kurt's mother terribly). His mother is a Catholic.

my prayers are there also,

many times intervention is what a person needs along with being held accountable for all of his actions. Discipline doesn't work if you don't work it. If he really wants to be set free he will Give it up and not repeat. If drugs are his driving force to continue on with the criminal activity, then he needs to be monitored. He should be placed in a rehabilitaion center of some sort. One with a program that works. Not one that just dries them up and lets them go.

If Kurt is in a cycle in which he refuses to break in spite of others trying to help him, then what else is there to do? Prayer is good, and faith behind that pray will bring results. Jesus guarantees that much.

However, Faith without works is dead. He must come to the mercy of the Lord by being willing to give it all up. That means to just stop doing that which keeps him in bondage to what is tormenting him. If he really seriously looks to Jesus to help him stay strong in overcoming, then so be it. But if he isn't going to be truly serious and persistant in his efforts, then he asks in vain. If he doesn't get the message about what it means to be accountable and to completely turn around his behavior, to let it go. to just drop it totally, then what good is it if he takes nothing seriously and just shruggs off all the help that is offered to him? He must first be serious. not just cry when the chips are down.

Sorry if I seem harsh, but I dealt with addicts all too much. I know nothing happens until they "get serious" and make a 180 degree turn around in their behavior. Sometimes cold turkey is the only thing that works. That is why I said, he needs to enter into a rehabilitation center that has a program that won't just dry him up and set him free. He needs a program that will teach him how to function as a drug free person.

I was married to a man who was an alcholic who popped pills as a supliment to his drinking. It took him over 20 years to get help from AA. And in the interim, he ended up in the hospital about three times that I know of becuase of being so drunk he was considered over doses. No one can help a person that is stubborn in their own sin and refusing to stop.

Sometimes you have to use tough love on people like that. Kindness is not going to sink in and they see they can just use you to cry on your shoulder without getting any "real" help at all. sympathy is not what those people need. They need tough love.

The gratitude comes after the fight!

God bess him and give him the insight he needs to carry onward in victory and snap out of his stupor.

Good news .... My friend Kurt is doing better. Still sick with a terrible cold and allergies. I met his mother and father several times now. His dad retired from the Navy and was showing me his prized pictures, letters and medals.

Kurt went to church with me last Saturday night. That was his first time to the church service. We also went to another Celebrate Recovery, at Shelter Cove, last Friday evening. Kurt shared in the small group, which seemed to really help him.

I looking forward to spending more time with Kurt, and hopefully he will continue reading his Bible and going to church. Please continue to pray for Kurt and another friend, and dear Christian brother, Paul, who will be spending two months in jail for attending the Christ-centered recovery program at our church, instead of the secular program the courts had ordered. Paul said he is willing to suffer in few months in jail for the blessings and strength he has received from Celebrate Recovery.

I'm hoping that I can visit Paul while he is in jail. I will try to take my boys along with me ......