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I left my husband. I had to flee his abuse and alcoholism.

We need prayer. This separation has opened my eyes to the level of dysfunction that I accepted as normal, for years. Pray for our kids, my husband, and me to heal and recover.

Pray for my mom, siblings, and other family and friends who are helping me through this time.

I need the Lord's guidance. I know that my Father will grant me wisdom if I ask for it. Pray that I will receive it, hear it, and do it.

We seriously need prayer and a lot of it. Will you add my family and me to your prayer list?

Peace be to you, brothers and sisters.
 
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Dear Lord God
Please provide protection and shelter from this very severe storm and hold this mother and her children in the palm of your hand, through the power of the Holy Spirit fill her with your peaceful presence.

In the mighty name of Jesus

Amen

Everything you need from shelter to case workers, social workers and food is available at a women's domestic violence shelter. You can get out and start over, on your own two feet.
 
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I know that God can guide you through this very difficult time. I pray that you will have His wisdom, strength and peace. I pray for His protection over you and your dear children. I also pray that God will work in your husband’s heart.
 
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I pray that the veil of alcoholism is lifted off your husband.

I pray overwhelming peace calms you as you face so many decisions.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
 
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Thank you for your prayers brothers and sisters, and for thinking of my family and me during this time.

Tomorrow is a big day for us. The kids and I will be moving again, and it is exciting and scary. It will only be a temporary solution, but will hopefully give us some space and time to decompress everything and figure some things out.

Please pray for us to have a safe trip tomorrow. It is a long drive (7-8 hours). Pray that we will be able to be well-accommodated, especially since our youngest child and I have health problems. Pray that this will be another step toward healing in our journey.

This has been so unbelievably painful. Pray for the Lord to protect our children and me through this process, and to give us the strength to accomplish everything we need to do. My mom and her friend will be helping us on the journey, so pray that they'll be encouraged and that they'll see that Jesus is the Lord.
 
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It's been a week since my last prayer request. The Lord has answered my prayers. He delivered me from the toxic situation at my mom's. He kept us safe on our journeys.

Now I am making another journey. I will be moving closer to my husband. I am doing that because he has rights to spend time with the children just like I do. Even if he's been a substandard husband, that doesn't affect his ability to be a good parent (especially in the eyes of the state).

I was thinking of settling further from him, but I made the round trip once. It was brutally exhausting. The experience was enough to convince me that it would be absolutely unfair to our young children to make them do that round trip every weekend, or every other weekend.

I am being pressed in on all sides. My husband is working to convince me to move back in with him. My mom is guilt-tripping me about the decisions I've made and has threatened to cut off her financial support. I am being called stubborn and treated like a child.

I have a long history with abusers. My dad abused me in every way when I was young. No one believed me, not even my mom. My only saving grace was a perceptive aunt, who was labeled paranoid. She passed away years ago. I hope she's in heaven but I don't know.

Why doesn't anyone think that my scars are real? The Lord is the only one who knows the depth of my suffering. He alone sees the truth of my sadness and I am comforted by Him.

I am strong in Him. I am raising my children as a strong woman. I am being sheltered by domestic violence organizations. These strangers are helping me more than anyone else I know right now. Unfortunately, they canonly offer me shelter on a very temporary basis.

Pray that I will find a permanent housing solution for the kids and me. Pray that my relationship with my husband remains amicable through our separation. Pray that I will hear and heed the Lord's guidance in all the many decisions I have to make.

Sometimes we're stubborn because we want to be, and sometimes we're stubborn because we have to be. I am in some of my lowest moments, and I feel the Lord assuring me that being stubborn is exactly what I need to do right now.
 
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Please keep praying for my family and me brothers and sisters. We're still homeless. I have looked at so many rentals. Hardly anyone wants to rent to me since I don't have a job yet. Even though I have a good chunk of income, they look at me as a single mom with three kids and deny my application. Then add credit issues which are largely the result of my husband's choices in frivolous spending and unsustainable living over the years. All the debt is in my name. Not good.

We've been homeless for two weeks. I'm very exhausted. The only time I've been close to this tired is when my babies were born and I had that newborn exhaustion going on. That's how bad it is. My mood is awful because of it. I am downtrodden and broken-hearted on top of it.

There are other homeless women here too. I wish I could help them, but I can't even help myself. In a way they're in a better situation since they get more help from the state. But in a way I'm in a better situation since I have more education. Maybe one day my education will matter, but right now it's a fight to survive.

Pray that we'll find a permanent place to live. I can't even get mail since I'm frequently bouncing around locations. I can't cook a real meal or do most things I'd be able to do at home like laundry. At the same time, I'm grateful because I have faith the Lord will change my circumstance when He wants to. And I'm grateful that my kids are healthy and I'm getting better after months of suffering. Pray that God keeps us healthy and directs all our paths.
 
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I left my husband. I had to flee his abuse and alcoholism.

We need prayer. This separation has opened my eyes to the level of dysfunction that I accepted as normal, for years. Pray for our kids, my husband, and me to heal and recover.

Pray for my mom, siblings, and other family and friends who are helping me through this time.

I need the Lord's guidance. I know that my Father will grant me wisdom if I ask for it. Pray that I will receive it, hear it, and do it.

We seriously need prayer and a lot of it. Will you add my family and me to your prayer list?

Peace be to you, brothers and sisters.

Not gonna lie...I teared up reading through this. You've been through so much, you're not sure what the future holds, but you are still clinging to the Lord for your future and your family's future. He sees, He cares, and Jesus will not let you or those you love fall. He will lead you through this. "The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of day." Proverbs 4:18

"Father to the fatherless, defender of widows— this is God, whose dwelling is holy." Psalm 68:5. I know you are not a widow, but this situation - having to leave your husband - yielded a similar result. Know that He is the Defender and Keeper of you and your children - in this moment, and forever.

Lord, please be with Healing with Jesus, what she is going through is tough - really tough. And right now she is not sure what direction to go in or what the future holds. Lord, please protect her and her children. Thank for the family members who are willing to help her in this time of need - I pray that you would strengthen and expand her spiritual and physical safety net. Lord, please guide Healing into her next steps. Please keep her and her family under your wings. Please provide for all their needs, and please be their long-term security. Please show her the way forward: how to create a life for herself and and her family out of the ashes of this situation. Lord, you are the best at turning around tragic situations!

Lord, please bring full healing to everyone involved - physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. Please led Healing's husband to repentance and recovery. I pray that no bitterness would take root. Instead, please led everyone involved to salvation or to a deeper relationship with You. Thank you for hearing us, caring and loving Father! Amen.

God bless you and your family. He will hold you all in His hands - which are larger than the universe. This the God who will protect you and create a new future for you. This is the God whose Light will illuminate your path. He will continue to protect and provide. I think of the abuse he endured before being crucified - He knows what you have gone through, and I know His heart overflows with love and compassion and empathy for you in all of this. Like I said, God bless.

Note - the National Domestic Abuse Hotline may be able to help direct you to helpful resources.
 
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Thank you for your prayers brothers and sisters.

My kids and I are still homeless and living in shelter. It has been exhausting.

I thought we were going to be moving into a unit today / tomorrow. The landlord promised me the unit and we were supposed to sign the lease yesterday. I even switched the electric into my name on Friday because he said the power would be off if I didn't. Now he is dodging my calls and won't answer my texts. He has been supposedly working on the unit, which would be great if we were going to be living there. But it's bad because he's racking up electricity charges in my name. This is terrible because I'm already strapped for cash. I can't afford to pay electric for a place I won't even be living in.

It seems that I was too quick to jump through the hoops he told me to. I should have had a signed lease first even if it meant not having power right away. I have been so desperate and I thought it was a sure thing. I feel foolish and taken advantage of.

Please pray for me. Pray for this unit to work out if it's a good thing. Or pray for me to have the wisdom to bail on it and disconnect the electricity if it's a bad thing. And pray for me to know what my next step should be. I looked at another place today but I'm not sure about it. My mind is frankly very confused and just surviving is a struggle. Making life-altering decisions while I'm in this disempowered position is proving very difficult.
 
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Thank you for your prayers brothers and sisters.

My kids and I are still homeless and living in shelter. It has been exhausting.

I thought we were going to be moving into a unit today / tomorrow. The landlord promised me the unit and we were supposed to sign the lease yesterday. I even switched the electric into my name on Friday because he said the power would be off if I didn't. Now he is dodging my calls and won't answer my texts. He has been supposedly working on the unit, which would be great if we were going to be living there. But it's bad because he's racking up electricity charges in my name. This is terrible because I'm already strapped for cash. I can't afford to pay electric for a place I won't even be living in.

It seems that I was too quick to jump through the hoops he told me to. I should have had a signed lease first even if it meant not having power right away. I have been so desperate and I thought it was a sure thing. I feel foolish and taken advantage of.

Please pray for me. Pray for this unit to work out if it's a good thing. Or pray for me to have the wisdom to bail on it and disconnect the electricity if it's a bad thing. And pray for me to know what my next step should be. I looked at another place today but I'm not sure about it. My mind is frankly very confused and just surviving is a struggle. Making life-altering decisions while I'm in this disempowered position is proving very difficult.

Lord, please continue to be with Healing, thank you that You are right here in the middle of this desperate time. Lord, I don't have the answer - but You do. You already see the other side of this - when the valley ends and a time of restoration and healing begins.

Lord, please protect Healing and her children from anyone who would take advantage of them - especially from this iffy potential landlord. Jesus, Healing needs a miracle from you. She needs direction, and reassurance of your care and love. Please be with your daughter in a tangible way right now. Please give her breakthrough, please use this time as a time to build your kingdom and draw Healing and her family closer to you. Thank you that you are the God of her salvation and of her provision in this moment. You have not abandoned her, and you have promised to make her paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6.

Please send her the help she needs. Please deliver her from the shelter and into a permanent home. Please help her to stitch the pieces of her life together again, and to keep her faith through this. God, she has been through so much. Please safeguard her and heal her. Thank you for being with her, and that - although times are tough - you have not abandoned my sister in Christ. Amen!
 
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Kept reading all of your post and kept hoping things would get better, but believe me they will. I spent 15 years on the streets of Southern California back in the 80's and 90's. the Lord was always with me and I pray He won't leave you homeless either. I now have a 31' RV donated to me by a church and Jesus Video gave me a van because I worked as a volunteer for them. I pray God will turn your lives around and most important is that you won't forget Him when you do get better off. It's in God's hands
 
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Thank you for your prayers brothers and sisters.

My kids and I are still homeless and living in shelter. It has been exhausting.

I thought we were going to be moving into a unit today / tomorrow. The landlord promised me the unit and we were supposed to sign the lease yesterday. I even switched the electric into my name on Friday because he said the power would be off if I didn't. Now he is dodging my calls and won't answer my texts. He has been supposedly working on the unit, which would be great if we were going to be living there. But it's bad because he's racking up electricity charges in my name. This is terrible because I'm already strapped for cash. I can't afford to pay electric for a place I won't even be living in.

It seems that I was too quick to jump through the hoops he told me to. I should have had a signed lease first even if it meant not having power right away. I have been so desperate and I thought it was a sure thing. I feel foolish and taken advantage of.

Please pray for me. Pray for this unit to work out if it's a good thing. Or pray for me to have the wisdom to bail on it and disconnect the electricity if it's a bad thing. And pray for me to know what my next step should be. I looked at another place today but I'm not sure about it. My mind is frankly very confused and just surviving is a struggle. Making life-altering decisions while I'm in this disempowered position is proving very difficult.

:heart: i can soooo relate. Praying for you and your children, that God solidifies and rolls out extraordinary favor and provision for you and that HE lights your way, and that doors of blessings, favor, and protection open before you and your children. Father may it be so, in Jesus name, amen. (((hug)))

"Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." ~Isa 54:4-13
 
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Thank you for all your prayers. Your support and words of wisdom and insight are nourishment to my soul.

On top of these crises, I am being ravaged emotionally by my mom. She promised to help me financially but is pulling out the rug from under me... again. I really believed she would help me this time. I am so distraught. I am at a new bottom.

I ended my relationship as a tenant with the shady landlord. I don't regret it, but now I have no prospects at all.

I need to decide where to go tomorrow. I don't know if I should stay in temporary shelter in the same area or try to go to another area of the state. I am close to my husband now which is convenient for arranging visits with the kids. But there is very little opportunity in this area since it's so remote. Pray for me to know where to land tomorrow.

I am tempted to go back to his house, but I know that isn't what I should do. I am beyond exhausted and completely confused about everything.
 
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Thank you for all your prayers. Your support and words of wisdom and insight are nourishment to my soul.

On top of these crises, I am being ravaged emotionally by my mom. She promised to help me financially but is pulling out the rug from under me... again. I really believed she would help me this time. I am so distraught. I am at a new bottom.

I ended my relationship as a tenant with the shady landlord. I don't regret it, but now I have no prospects at all.

I need to decide where to go tomorrow. I don't know if I should stay in temporary shelter in the same area or try to go to another area of the state. I am close to my husband now which is convenient for arranging visits with the kids. But there is very little opportunity in this area since it's so remote. Pray for me to know where to land tomorrow.

I am tempted to go back to his house, but I know that isn't what I should do. I am beyond exhausted and completely confused about everything.

:heart: i'm sooooo sorry about your mom. This verse below comes to mind. Praying that God guides you in a visible and concrete way, and that He protects you from any directions or decisions that would cause you harm, and that He comforts you, and calms you, and heals you, and grants you clarity and guides your every thought, word, and deed. Father may it be so, in Jesus name, amen. (((hug)))

"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up." ~Ps 27:10

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