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Posted by: babs51
Dear Friends, please pray for my daughter, Amanda, with a husband who loves her dearly and two small children. She is not struggling with alcoholism, but is giving in totally to it. It is ruining so many good things she has in her life. I am fearful that she will end up hurting herself or someone else. It causes her to become beligerent, and vicious especially to those around her. She is not the same person when she drinks. She has been through rehab, with no good result, and she has been to several AA meetings. She just recently stopped drinking for sixteen days, but went right back to it the seventeenth day and has not stopped for a week. We need help from the Almighty immediately for fear that she will hurt her children or herself. She is physically abusive to her husband and he cannot seem to gather the strength to be strong with her. She needs a divine miracle by the hand of God. Please add her to your prayer list. Satan is trying with everything he has to get her to keep drinking. She is so much happier when she is sober. I can't figure it out. She always says it is not worth it and I am afraid she is wasting her life away. She sleeps half of the day and is unable to take care of the children. She is missing so much in life. Please, I am begging you all to pray for her quickly before something happens. Please accept my thanks and gratitude in advance. Love, Barbara
Posted by: christythompson
God I pray for this family
Lord let them convict Amanda
and have a family intervention.
Amanda is self centered and has not been caring for her
children, spouse or home.
God let them be strong in speaking with her
to reach down in that world she is in alone
to save this loved one.
Anything pleading or soft will not be heard through this fog.
God Amanda is loved
and her family wants her back
I pray for her to hear the words spoken
Its not about what she is missing out on
Its about cheating her loved ones
and caring only for her wants
God this addiction is terrible.
If she won't do this for herself
God give her a conscience to do it for her family
because they demand it.
Lord save this dear daughter
Heal her compulsions and addictions
Restore her to us
Barbara, most alcoholics need AA every day
not just a few meetings.
The pattern of being dry and binging is familar
rarely can they go past three weeks dry.
You may need to be drastic
and tell her if she doesn't get in counseling
and stay there that she is out of the house.
then follow through...immeadiatly
Don't let her back until she is successful
in getting treatment...perhaps a 6 week rehab
Something has to wake her up
nothing obviously has.
I believe God can heal her
but he gives her free will.. to choose
Have you told her about the reality of heaven and hell
and who Jesus is...
I think everything starts at salvation...
May God bless her spouse and yourself to practice tough love
Posted by: ninababy73
Barbara, I agree with everything Christy said and I am praying. This need cuts deep for me as I have a brother who is struggling with alcoholism. So, I definately will be praying.
The first step is admitting that she is an alcoholic and she is. She needs treatment and the support that daily meetings can provide.
Father, I lift Amanda up to You praying for her eyes to open to her addiction. Father, I pray that she will seek out to do the work that is necessary to rid herself from this addiction. Father, I pray that she will seek treatment and the support of AA and be diligent in getting the help necessary to live a full life. Father, give her family the courage to stand up to her and say enough is enough we love you too much to allow you to destroy yourself. Father, may they be strong and united in making sure that Amanda gets the treatment that she needs. Father, protect her husband and her children from abuses that Amanda has afflicted on them in her addictive state. Father, save her. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen 
Posted by: diamondcreates
Father God - bless this family with an overwhelming sense of strength, unity, love, grace and mercy. Bless this family to bring this child to the forefront to get the necessary help that Amanda needs Father God. Father God I too stand in agreement with the posts that my sisters have posted for Amanda - and the help that she needs desperately. Father God bless this family with the strength to pull through together and not be at odds, and not allow whatever Amanda says or does through her drunken state that it is not her but the spirit of the devil within her. Father God bless this family with constant strength to not give up on her and to continue to help Amanda to get the help she needs to begin her passage to being sober again. This I pray in YOUR holy ever lasting name,Amen,Amen,Amen, Be Bless family of God for indeed the season of plentiful, prosperity, and peace is upon us all at this present time. Amen. God is good all the time.
Posted by: Missamae80
Father, I lift Amanda to You. I ask You to heal her of her addiction. Please help her and her family through this difficult time. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Posted by: Rachel R
All that matters here is the safety and well-being of the children.
How awful if something happened to them because people enabled their mother's addiction.
Have the courage to step up and protect them.
You don't want them to say someday, "Grandmother, why didn't you DO something to protect us?"
The worst nightmare would be a funeral full of regret for everyone there.
Lord, wake this family up!
Help them form boundaries to guard these children.
Give the father courage to stand.
Send them wisdom and understanding and information.
Break her addiction and give her hope for the future.
In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Posted by: DEBORAH BROUGHTON
I BELEIVE LIKE SO DISEASES THAT ALCOHOLISM IS A DISEASE AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH. LIKE ANY DISEASE GOD CAN DELIVER AND MAKE HOLD. THIS DISEASE I BELEIVE IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER DISEASES AND I PRAY IN JESUS NAME THAT SHE IS HEAL.
THE LORD LIFT UP OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED OUR DISEASES, AND BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEAL. A VERY DIFFICULT DECISION FOR HUSBAND TO WHAT TO DO FOR HIS WIFE (AMANDA), BUT I THINK A DECISION MUST BE MADE, AND I HOPE THE CHOICE THE SHE MAKES IS THAT DRINKING IS NOT WORTH THE HURT, PAIN , AND ALSO THE DANGER IT IS CAUSING IN HER FAMILY AND THAT SHE WOULD STOP DRINKING WITH THE HELP OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.