how do you expalint to an 84 year old woman who has gone to churh most of her life that she has to accept the LORD to be saved when she is convinced she is already going to heaven ? right now i am unable to see her as she is in the hospital with a mercer straph infection and I am not family so i can t see her. i am already kicking myself for not saying something earlier when i had the chance but she would not have listened anyway.
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maybe she did? how do u know she didnt. surely that must have come up before in the course of her life if she's been going that long
maybe she did? how do u know she didnt. surely that must have come up before in the course of her life if she's been going that long
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I like to think so i know she considers herself religous but she is very manipulative and lies a lot so it makes me wonder. also her minister is a crackpot and so i don t expect any help there
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why dont you ask her if she has accepted jesus as her savior? if you think it will be uncomfortable, come to it as if you have questions to ask her for your own growth in faith
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i cant see her it s family only and i can t call because she is to weak to talk on the phone her daughter-in-law told me.
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well.... get a note to her.... make sure she reads it somehow. she doesnt need to vocalize anything... God - Jesus knows what she is believing in her heart. just have it say some thing like ... please believe that Jesus died for your sins... and please accept him into your heart.
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Didymus,
I remember a story of a surgeon struggling with a similiar issue.
The man had lung cancer and was coughing up blood. His days were short. The doctor wrestled with how to approach the man and share Jesus and the message of salvation.
The doctor of coursed submitted his request to the Lord. The next day, the doctor had it in his mind to take a brochure and to share with the man the gospel. Upon entering the room with his rehearsed plan in mind he found the man sobbing. The doctor asked the man "why are you crying?" The man replied "My whole life has been a failure, two failed marriages, drinking, smoking I hate myself. How could God possibly love me?" The doctor's rehearsed plan went out the window and he began sharing the gospel with the man. The man accepted Christ with the help of the doctor. The man later went home to be with the Lord.
The point of the story is we do not lay the foundation, or even the way to another persons salvation. That is the job of the Holy Spirit. Merely asking God to bring someone into salvation is enough to set the Holy Spirit to quick work. In the story this is what happened and does happen. God used the doctor to lead the man to Christ. We only need to be ready and able. God will even provide the right words for the situation.
Another thing is even if no one is available, it is in all of us in our hearts that there is a God. It is enough for the Holy Spirit to work with because if the persons heart is right to accept Christ, the Holy Spirit will help the person to pray or pray on there behalf. Once the heart says yes, the Holy Spirit grabs them. They belong to God then.
I remember a story of a surgeon struggling with a similiar issue.
The man had lung cancer and was coughing up blood. His days were short. The doctor wrestled with how to approach the man and share Jesus and the message of salvation.
The doctor of coursed submitted his request to the Lord. The next day, the doctor had it in his mind to take a brochure and to share with the man the gospel. Upon entering the room with his rehearsed plan in mind he found the man sobbing. The doctor asked the man "why are you crying?" The man replied "My whole life has been a failure, two failed marriages, drinking, smoking I hate myself. How could God possibly love me?" The doctor's rehearsed plan went out the window and he began sharing the gospel with the man. The man accepted Christ with the help of the doctor. The man later went home to be with the Lord.
The point of the story is we do not lay the foundation, or even the way to another persons salvation. That is the job of the Holy Spirit. Merely asking God to bring someone into salvation is enough to set the Holy Spirit to quick work. In the story this is what happened and does happen. God used the doctor to lead the man to Christ. We only need to be ready and able. God will even provide the right words for the situation.
Another thing is even if no one is available, it is in all of us in our hearts that there is a God. It is enough for the Holy Spirit to work with because if the persons heart is right to accept Christ, the Holy Spirit will help the person to pray or pray on there behalf. Once the heart says yes, the Holy Spirit grabs them. They belong to God then.
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Father please give Didymus the right words to say, let this women understand, please touch her heart with Your holy spirit. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen
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