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The Road Ahead

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GraftMeIn

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I want to thank you all for all the prayers, and support you've been giving me. It helps more than I can even explain. I thank the Lord for you all, and ask him to bestow his blessings upon each and every one of you.

I have a task that sits in front of me now. I feel the Lord is telling me to attend a feast. I am not to take part in the feast, I only need to deliver a message to all those that do show up for it.

I already have the words that need to be said, but my struggle is how to deliver the message. If I stand up and give a speach to everyone at my brothers restaurant, surely it would cause some kind of a scene. I worry that my emmotions might get the better of me, and thus take away from the message that needs to be delivered. I could also just write up a letter and hand each person a copy after they sit down to eat, and then be on my way.

This is going to be something that's not going to be very easy for me to do. What my brother did to me is the exact same thing he pulled on my Mother not too long ago. I tried to do something about it then, but there just weren't enough resources. And it was hard to prove what he was realy doing. While praying for my Mom the Lord simply told me that she will help others.

My younger brother called me up last night, He wanted to know when a good time for me would be to go help clean up the house because they need to get everything out of it so they can hand the house over to the bank. They plan on doing this tomorrow and plan to divide things up between everyone. To me this felt like nothing more than a kick in the teeth. It wasn't my Dads stuff that I wanted, and my brother knew his stuff ment nothing to me. So he took away the one thing that did. Ever since we were children my brother always refused to let God in his life, he wanted nothing to do with church or with God, and still doesn't. Therefore I must now warn him to repent and turn away from Satans grip, If I don't warn him then I'll be held accountable for not doing so.

I pray for courage and strength to accomplish what the Lord wants me to do, and pray that all I do or say, will be done according to Gods will and not my own.

I ask you'll join me in this prayer, and also give thanks to the Lord for the awesome way he is able to comfort us when we most need it. Even though I'm not making many posts, I do still continue to keep you all in my prayers.
 

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I'm scared for you Graft. I'm concerned that this isn't from God, but from your own heart.

Don't make a scene about a private matter at a feast. It will ruin your family and everyone will think you've had a breakdown.

You are still in fresh grief over the loss of your dad. I know from experience that you should never do anything during the mourning period, because you'll end up doing stuff you'll regret for the rest of your life.

Please reconsider this Graft!

How do you know this is from God and not your own anger? What real confirmations have you received? Show me where in the Bible there is a command to confront your brothers in public?

Please don't do it! :pray:
 
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I pray for courage and strength to accomplish what the Lord wants me to do, and pray that all I do or say, will be done according to Gods will and not my own.

I ask you'll join me in this prayer, and also give thanks to the Lord for the awesome way he is able to comfort us when we most need it.

I will join you in this prayer that ALL will be according to His will.
 
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Thanks for the prayers everyone. Sorry I haven't posted anything lately, I tried to get here to post something friday night but was unable to get online. We spread my Dads ashes out on Saturday, I had to leave at 6 in the morning, didn't get home untill after 8:30 at night, and was just to tired to think about much of anything. Sunday I just spent the entire day resting.

As for my brother I don't know what to say. He has my younger brother under his grip now, my younger brother still questions if there's realy such thing as God or not. He thinks it would be neat if there was, but he also thinks it's just another story like santa claus. So my younger brother is quickly being turned against our Mother, and they're both trying to turn me against her now. They keep going on about how Mom never did anything for them. All I can see is how much she did do for them, and the truth is she did far too much, they were spoiled, and have a selfish way of seeing things. I told my brother he has to answer to God for everything. He said he feels just fine about all he's done, and continues to claim that Mom never did one thing for him.

It's sad to know where my brothers soul is headed right now. I think he's ready to become trapped in his own pit. When he pulled our Dad out of the nursing home, there was an elderly lady in the nursing home that our Dad started calling Mom, and she started refering to him as her son. She's in her 90's and somehow they managed to move her out of the nursing home, and in with our Dad, eventually she was taken out of their care because she became dehydrated and malnurished. As it turns out there are certain things that my brother has in his possesion that belonged to her. Things she wishes to leave to her grandchild. He's been asked to return them. He thinks there's something fishy about this, because he thought she had no family, and plans on checking into it first. All I can do is pray that he wont come between her, and any family she might have, or cause them any problems. He realy has no right to question who she wants to leave her things to.

I'll probably be back to posting here more again soon. Still keeping you all in my prayers, and can't thank you enough for all of your prayers. I did what I needed to do, and that was to let both of my brothers know it is God they have to answer to. Since they have no fear of God, they refuse to open their eyes and see, but it is all in Gods hands now. There's nothing more I can do to help open their eyes, but if God crushes my brother, I know I at least warned him, and wont have to feel any guilty about not warning him.

 
 
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Hey Graft, Its good to hear from you, I hope you take time to collect your thoughts, and to grieve the loss of your dad. My prayers are with you during this time. I pray for your brothers also, but you have done all you can do. Take it easy, get some rest, and we all look forward to hearing from you soon. God Bless
 
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