Dear sister Rosie,
I agree that besides abiding in the the WORD 📖 of God, prayer is by far the greatest weapon any Christian has. I’ve prayed for Brock in the recent past along with many of the Dabber’s I’m sure. I agree that we need to remain hopeful, and thankful for each break through as they come. Knowing form my own experience, it takes time for the good LORD to sort things out in a persons life that has run off into a ditch. I know because I’ve been there. Let me encourage you a little. I grew up in the late 60s and 70s. I’m a product of divorce, that’s when my life of regular church attendance began to go off the rails. For me one of the main contributing factor for sliding off the narrow path, was I no longer had a father figure around. And I let the enemy lie to me that my parents divorce was in some way my fault. The feelings of guilt lead me into withdrawing, which eventually lead me into drugs and alcohol abuse, which lead into full fledged addiction to alcohol mostly. By the age of 17 or 18 I had become an alcoholic.
My downward spiral continued with my alcohol addiction along with bad choices which lead to jail stays, court proceedings, more jail sentences. And every time I’d be released, I’d go right back to the life style of a drunk. All this took a toll on my mental well-being. I had lost all hope that I would ever be anything else than a drinker -drug using loser. This life style if you can call it that, lead to deep depression, which lead to several failed attempts at suicided. Which after time lead to sever paranoia, which lead to more suicide attempts, which lead to self admittance to a state mental hospital for hearing voices. I was certified as a paranoid schizophrenic, and remained under treatment for several months to no avail, the voices remained. So I checked myself out and headed to the streets once again. I lived homeless for a couple of more years surviving on what you would call skid row in the town that I ended up in. I panhandled, stole food, lied and cheated, any thing I needed to do to survive I did except I never harmed anyone. Sister Rosie, I was lost in a fog is the best way that I can explain it. Constant drug and alcohol abuse will do that to a person. What I didn’t realize at the time was what I had done was I opened the door to the devil. And he had control over me to a great degree. What I found out later on was, that what I needed was deliverance. Here’s the encouraging part of my story. After many long years of barely making in this world, at the age of 29 I found JESUS. I left where I was living and hitched hiked over 200 miles away until one evening a gentleman who I figured later must have been a believer picked me up. He pointed to what he believed at the time to a rescue mission. While on the drive, he kept asking me if I wanted to go to his house and he and his wife would feed me. I’m going to be frank, I was so possessed by demons, and driven by the voices in my head that I kept refusing his offer. The reason was I felt there were people after me, so I needed to keep moving. Boy! Did I ever need JESUS. The long and the short of it is, Just as we were coming into the city where this kind soul lived, I had this strong impression is the best way that I can describe it to accept his offer. So I did. I went to his home and his wife had me sit at their dinning room table as dirty and filthy as I was. And she feed me a wonderful meal. I was about to leave after thanking both of them, and as I moved to place my hand on the door knob, I heard another voice, only this voice was firm but calmly reassuring on the inside of me that said “have him call the mission.” Now I didn’t know it then, but the calm voice that I heard that night was the voice of the Holy Spirit. 🕊 Well, I obeyed that voice thankfully, and asked this kind gentleman if he would take me to the mission. So he gladly did. The mission turned out to be a Christian commune instead. The commune became my safe refuge. I was welcomed with open arms, and given a place to sleep in the men’s dorm. It didn’t take long for me to accept the LORD during one of the six day a week church services held there. Actually it was more of a recommittal to the LORD because both my younger sister and I accepted JESUS when we were little in Sunday school. Rosie, Not only did I receive CHRIST and was instantly redeemed, but He delivered me from the demonic voices, from the guilt and shame that I was carrying for so long a time. And He made me a new Creation in CHRIST, the old has gone, and the new has come. That was over 45 years ago. Rosie, I wanted to share a portion of my testimony in the hopes that you will gain some comfort that if the LORD could do this for me, He surely will do it for Brock. Hang on sister. Never give up praying. The LORD sees and He hears your prayers they are working much good. Never lose hope, the good LORD has Brock in His radar. He will be faithful to lead him to safe harbor just as he’s done for me. I believe it with all of my heart that the good work that He’s begun in your son will be brought to completion. I’m standing with you in faith for Brocks full restoration. Be blessed! You are greatly loved by the Father, and by us at the DAB. Stay strong, and live with expectancy. God is on the move…

In JESUS’S holy Name. 💞

Dearest Rosie; Thank you for sharing your friend’s vision of Brock. God has great and mighty plans for him. Even if you don’t see it with your eyes, God is working! Praise His name.

family, Father, You said in Isaiah 43:19 “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Christ, through Zealous Spirit, bring them to where glory reaches its full potential in The Almighty’s name, Amen!!

Praying for Brock today. LORD God, dispatch Your warring angels to do battle for this mother’s beloved son. May they, “Your warring angels”, be charged with keeping him safe in “their hands” from all the enemies plans to steal, kill, and destroy. We bind the tormentor spirit! We ask that Brock have a mind that is filled with God’s power and love. And that his mind be completely free from fear. Abba, we ask that every thing that the palmer and canker worm has stolen, would be restored seven times more. Gracious Father, it’s in JESUS’S Name that we pray. Amen! 💞

family, Father-The Lord God Almighty, Lift him: “Lift him out of despair.” (Psalm 40:2)