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[romans82628]

I was wondering if anyone has heard any stories from others or experienced first hand someone with dementia or alzheimer's receiving Christ. Like, being lucid long enough to understand someone talking about spiritual things and then returning to their confused state again. I know God can do this but I guess I would just feel encouraged to hear it happened to others.

My grandmother is 85 and has dementia. I stay with her about 14-16 hours a week straight from work. My dad is also a christian but stays with her about 6-8 hours and it just seems is not so concerned about her spiritual eternity or maybe just thinks it is too late. I have been a christian for about 7 years now and I so regret not having talked to her years ago about God. Now that I see her so much, I have tried to bring up talking about God a few times but it gets no where. She doesn't know who I am or where she is so I don't really know what to do and feel so alone on all this and am losing hope in her not going to hell, or in me just not even knowing where she ends up. I don't know how to handle that either.

Any encouraging words helping me see hope for her salvation would really help me. Thanks.

 

[tapero]

I was wondering if anyone has heard any stories from others or experienced first hand someone with dementia or alzheimer's receiving Christ. Like, being lucid long enough to understand someone talking about spiritual things and then returning to their confused state again. I know God can do this but I guess I would just feel encouraged to hear it happened to others.

My grandmother is 85 and has dementia. I stay with her about 14-16 hours a week straight from work. My dad is also a christian but stays with her about 6-8 hours and it just seems is not so concerned about her spiritual eternity or maybe just thinks it is too late. I have been a christian for about 7 years now and I so regret not having talked to her years ago about God. Now that I see her so much, I have tried to bring up talking about God a few times but it gets no where. She doesn't know who I am or where she is so I don't really know what to do and feel so alone on all this and am losing hope in her not going to hell, or in me just not even knowing where she ends up. I don't know how to handle that either.

Any encouraging words helping me see hope for her salvation would really help me. Thanks.

Hi hon,

Not to worry. God works through these circumstances I believe in their heart.

My grandmother who was 96 would not hear anything I or anyone said; she didn't have alzheimers but would not listen nor could grasp.

Hospice could reach her re meds and such, but nothing more.

She spoke of the Holy Spirit but never of Christ. (Christan Scientist.) I looked in all her books, hymnals, and same songs as any other christian hymnal but I checked and songs where we would see Jesus didn't show same in her hymnal, all said Holy Spirit so I was concerned. Also her bible, all Jesus was removed and Holy Spirit there instead, same with all her other reading materials. So I was fairly certain she did not know the truth (Jesus.)

Anyway, she went in hospital, I had 2 people from my church go and 2 chaplains sent to her from hospital.

They all told me she surely knows Christ; not to worry.

Still however, not convinced as I know her, and whatever they heard was only Holy Spirit, and hearing this assumed.

One can't assume.

One day she was watching a Billy Graham Crusade or speech and I heard her cry out; they did that to Jesus and he never did anything wrong.

This was a good sign. I couldn't speak to her, though I tried, but still a good sign.

She died, and that's the sum knowledge that I knew of her in re to God.

I believe she is in heaven. So she was in and out of in all these years. Age 95 to 97 with me there all the time, but not towards the end due to stress of caring, but was with her when she died, as the Lord had answered prayer that i would be there.

So no one could talk to her about anything. God is very personal to older folks, not like us, we're different; we speak Christ and openly. Many older folks do not as were taught not to.

So anyway, going through all this with her, I know that God can reach those who we can not speak with. With Alzheimers can't reach em, but God can. I have heard that God has gone to Muslims in dreams and revealed himself. And have read of Chinese who come to Christ thru dreams.

Sitting there for some 6 hours while she was dying at one point, I finally said, Lord Jesus, recieve her Spirit. She took her last breath and passed right then.

We can't know hon, but be sure God is good, and I do believe speaks to people who can't be spoken to for whatever reason.

God bless you,
tapero

 

[joyinhislife]

For whatever it's worth.....I knew a woman whose mother-in-law had alzheimer's. She could be difficult to deal with at times, but before she was diagnosed, she was a strong christian. Wonderful woman!! And then she began to forget things, you know, all that stuff. They watched her decline, and she did finally die. Before she passed, God gave her son a gift in that he saw her lucid. She was coherent right before she died, and she looked up as if welcoming Jesus to come and take her home. That must have been so comforting! Anyway, I say that to say that the Lord knows about everyone. He knows our hearts. Just because someone has a mental thing going, this doesn't mean that the person has lost their salvation....thank God!!!!!

 

[nanajojothatsme]

For whatever it's worth.....I knew a woman whose mother-in-law had alzheimer's. She could be difficult to deal with at times, but before she was diagnosed, she was a strong christian. Wonderful woman!! And then she began to forget things, you know, all that stuff. They watched her decline, and she did finally die. Before she passed, God gave her son a gift in that he saw her lucid. She was coherent right before she died, and she looked up as if welcoming Jesus to come and take her home. That must have been so comforting! Anyway, I say that to say that the Lord knows about everyone. He knows our hearts. Just because someone has a mental thing going, this doesn't mean that the person has lost their salvation....thank God!!!!!

I have heard stories like that from a nurse friend of mine , isn't God awesome