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Childhood Friends Now Homosexual

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Posted by: damascus_girl

Please pray for my two best friends from high school. A guy and a girl. They went off to college and then announced to me that they are homosexual. I struggled with how to respond to this in the past...before I came to Christ. But now I know that it is sinful and wrong.

When I was "young", new in my faith, I dealt with them harshly. Totally cut them off without a word, rather than speaking to them out of the love God has shown me. Recently I felt led to try and re-establish contact with the two of them. They both responded. The guy, still open to speaking to me, is willing to accept that we do not agree on his lifestyle. Perhaps God will use me to reach him. The girl...who used to lead FCA Bible Studies in high school...is very angry and insistant that to be her friend I must embrace her WITH her lifestyle and spirituality. She has aparently rejected the God of her youth...saying all of that was just a game. The only way of fitting in in our small town. Now she surrounds herself with people who tell her what she wants to hear.

Both of them have had pain and struggle in their lives. The guy's father has admitted to being homosexual as well. The girl...her mother died while we were in high school. But it was a long process that we watched for years. She was like my sister during that time, and even lived at our house while her dad worked.

I love these two people, and it grieves me that they once spoke the truth. But like me, perhaps it hadn't quite made it to their hearts? They didn't have a personal walk with Christ? I still struggle with appearances, having thought for years I was a Christian until I found myself face to face with the God I had never met.

Please pray for these two. I love them dearly. And I hope God will allow me to reach them. But if it isn't me...I pray that there is someone. Even if they run from me out of embarrassment right now...I want to be able to see them again when we get to heaven!!!

Damascus_Girl


Posted by: cgirl

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Originally Posted by damascus_girl
Please pray for my two best friends from high school. A guy and a girl. They went off to college and then announced to me that they are homosexual. I struggled with how to respond to this in the past...before I came to Christ. But now I know that it is sinful and wrong.

When I was "young", new in my faith, I dealt with them harshly. Totally cut them off without a word, rather than speaking to them out of the love God has shown me. Recently I felt led to try and re-establish contact with the two of them. They both responded. The guy, still open to speaking to me, is willing to accept that we do not agree on his lifestyle. Perhaps God will use me to reach him. The girl...who used to lead FCA Bible Studies in high school...is very angry and insistant that to be her friend I must embrace her WITH her lifestyle and spirituality. She has aparently rejected the God of her youth...saying all of that was just a game. The only way of fitting in in our small town. Now she surrounds herself with people who tell her what she wants to hear.

Both of them have had pain and struggle in their lives. The guy's father has admitted to being homosexual as well. The girl...her mother died while we were in high school. But it was a long process that we watched for years. She was like my sister during that time, and even lived at our house while her dad worked.

I love these two people, and it grieves me that they once spoke the truth. But like me, perhaps it hadn't quite made it to their hearts? They didn't have a personal walk with Christ? I still struggle with appearances, having thought for years I was a Christian until I found myself face to face with the God I had never met.

Please pray for these two. I love them dearly. And I hope God will allow me to reach them. But if it isn't me...I pray that there is someone. Even if they run from me out of embarrassment right now...I want to be able to see them again when we get to heaven!!!

Damascus_Girl


Yes I agree in prayer for these two friends of Damascus Girl will be saved, healed, delivered, and set free, in Jesus name amen.

Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.


Posted by: Ragamuffin

I will pray for you and know that we are to love the sinner, but we can (and in this case should) hate the sin. My cousin was gay and suffered with HIV for yeard before it turned to AIDS, he only ever had two boyfriends, and they both broke his heart. It was the first one that gave him HIV. The end of last May, my cousin killed himself (the AIDS was going to his brain and he didn't want to be a burden to anyone) and I still struggle with thinking about where he is right now. In speaking with him, he asked me if my husband would ever want to meet him or even tolerate him - being in the military and all (don't ask, don't tell...) and I said certainly he would tolerate and love to meet you, but he would never lie and say your lifestyle is okay, that's not what we believe. My cousin was okay with that, but he did teach me something very important through the years and in his death. That lesson is most certainly that we can never serve two masters, to embrace one is to reject the other, and that's a mighty big leap. I will pray for both your friends, and you, to have the courage to face this head on. I would say that you need to ask their forgiveness for being so harsh with them at first, but stay true to yourself about not agreeing with their lifestyle. People CAN agree to disagree and your one friend that says it's all or nothing, she's on the fence, and simply your presence and caring will make a big impact on her life. We speak and the seeds fall where they may, we do that part, and we sometimes never know who makes sure things keep going, but we know what we see in part, God sees from beginning to end, just follow your heart...remember God said that in this world we will have many problems, but not to worry, he has overcome the world. Blessings to you...