SamGribley
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PRYR RQST Please pray for deliverance for my son
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Fairwillows
Where I am supposed to be.
You and your family will be included in my Prayers
As a parent it is so hard watching, and not being able to help, to remove the pain they carry.
I followed every resource presented to me. In hindsight, I would suggest a prayer circle, calling on Jesus, with your family being connected by holding hands or hands on shoulders. That was one move that I didn't try. I do feel that there is an evil energy that preys on the vulnerable. My Son didn't make it. Now I am at war with the demons to protect his 2 young sons, and I am scared to death.
As a parent it is so hard watching, and not being able to help, to remove the pain they carry.I followed every resource presented to me. In hindsight, I would suggest a prayer circle, calling on Jesus, with your family being connected by holding hands or hands on shoulders. That was one move that I didn't try. I do feel that there is an evil energy that preys on the vulnerable. My Son didn't make it. Now I am at war with the demons to protect his 2 young sons, and I am scared to death.
Tennessee gal
Veteran Member
Praying Benlan for your dear son and for your family to have wisdom to help him.
Blacknarwhal
Let's Go Brandon!
You've got plenty of prayer going up already, so an amen from this end, because prayer needs agreement.
And yes, don't forget the physical side of it too; could be a brain chemistry thing or the like. Not every illness is demonic.
And yes, don't forget the physical side of it too; could be a brain chemistry thing or the like. Not every illness is demonic.
readynwaiting
Contributing Member
I understand how you feel. I will pray for your son and for all of you.
John Deere Girl
Veteran Member
I'm praying! Teen years are so hard!
patriotgal
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Praying. Being a parent is not for sissies.
The Cub
Behold, I am coming soon.
danielboon
TB Fanatic
Lord cast out that spirit of depression out of him in Jesus mighty name amen
Littlesister
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Prayers.
Sammy55
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You've got some good info here, Ben. I'll be sending up prayers along with everyone else.
Get your son checked out physically. Even something small, like being low on B12, can lead to depression and a host of other issues.
Then see if he is willing to talk to a Christian counselor who can lead him through the feelings and thoughts he has and help him to come to a better place.
And above all - which I know you are already doing! - keep praying for him and placing him in God's hands! God knows what's wrong, and God can deliver your son from whatever - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual - is going on in your son's life. But your son has to let God do His work.
We'll keep the prayers going up!
Get your son checked out physically. Even something small, like being low on B12, can lead to depression and a host of other issues.
Then see if he is willing to talk to a Christian counselor who can lead him through the feelings and thoughts he has and help him to come to a better place.
And above all - which I know you are already doing! - keep praying for him and placing him in God's hands! God knows what's wrong, and God can deliver your son from whatever - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual - is going on in your son's life. But your son has to let God do His work.
We'll keep the prayers going up!
Prayers for your family and especially your son. Depression is linked to gut health. Google gut health and depression. The right probiotics may help him, but it's not a quick fix. If you haven't worked on it from this angle, do some research to see if it might help him. Also all probiotics supplements are not created equal. Some produce no change, others do. Price is not always a good indicator of results.
Prayers you find the right solution.
Prayers you find the right solution.
Intestinal Fortitude
Have Faith
GET HIM OFF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA!!
Take his phone away
Send him to a place like Outward Bound (builds confidence).
NO computers!
put him in a teenage Marine Devil Dog School
Take his phone away
Send him to a place like Outward Bound (builds confidence).
NO computers!
put him in a teenage Marine Devil Dog School
Hfcomms
EN66iq
A wise pastor I once had when it comes to mental health type issues said 'You can't cast out the flesh and you can't counsel a demon'. You need to know what you are dealing with here. Of course pray for him and do everything you can to support him spiritually but you also need to have him checked out physically as others have already said.
And you also need wisdom as to where to take him because so many doctors now are just eager to pass out the anti-depressants or other pharmaceuticals that may hide the symptoms but do nothing about the underlying causes.
And looking at the macro picture of the world today there is a lot of things going on to get adults depressed let alone a 16 year old. Most likely a whole person approach is needed. Not only prayer and counseling but nutrition, exercise and maybe some good hard work to get the natural endorphins going.
Praying for wisdom for you.
And you also need wisdom as to where to take him because so many doctors now are just eager to pass out the anti-depressants or other pharmaceuticals that may hide the symptoms but do nothing about the underlying causes.
And looking at the macro picture of the world today there is a lot of things going on to get adults depressed let alone a 16 year old. Most likely a whole person approach is needed. Not only prayer and counseling but nutrition, exercise and maybe some good hard work to get the natural endorphins going.
Praying for wisdom for you.
Signwatcher
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Will join with you in prayer for your DS. May God eliminate the spirit of heaviness and depression off from him and your entire household. In Jesus' Name and with His blood.
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
Not necessarily.
When my middle son went through deep depression as a teen, the ONLY lifeline he had were his friends on social media.
He's told me since that had he not had that he would have committed suicide.
He felt unable to talk to us. Often teens do feel this way-- "My parents don't understand me..." -- and in my case, I made it worse.
I knew bad influences were preying on him, and I had been praying to God to separate him from them, and knew that he was thinking wrong, negative, depressing thoughts. I'd been thinking a lot about the verse that says, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" as well as the old sayings about choosing which voices to listen to--and knew he was listening to the wrong voices---Satan speaking to him through influences around him to foster wrong thoughts and negative emotions, and he was listening to his voice instead of the positive voice of God's spirit in his heart.
One night he asked me if he could talk to me alone, and though astounded, I gratefully agreed. After everyone else had gone to bed, we sat down to talk, and my son soon dissolved in tears. Between sobs, he told me he felt so bad because he had such angry feelings toward his older brother (my blind son) and that he knew he shouldn't, and he DID love him, but.....
I know now what he was really struggling with was feeling that he came in perpetually second-place in our--his parents'--love and priorities, because we had to spend so much extra time and effort in working with our oldest special-needs son. That was a reality that couldn't be helped---but he was feeling that we didn't love him, or not as much as we loved his brother.
The Holy Spirit was just about shouting inside me to shut up and JUST LISTEN. But, in my pride that I knew what he needed to hear (the above), I started in on how he'd been listening to Satan trying to tempt him through wrong thoughts / voices.
He totally mis-heard me, interpreted my words to say I was thinking he was demon-possessed (under demonic attack, yes, but not meaning that)--and he totally closed down on me.
It took YEARS to undo the damage I did that night.
If I had it to do over again, I'd have done what the Lord TOLD me to do:
Ask him to talk.
Sit still and shut up while he did.
Then tell him I love him--and GOD loves him--and NOTHING he can do or has ever done can make God un-love him.
And that he is a person of worth, of value, and that he matters, and God has a wonderful future in store for him.
And KEEP telling him that.
I don't know if my terrible mistake will help you---but for what it's worth I am praying for you, and for him.
And never, never, never stop praying---pray a HEDGE OF PROTECTION around him in the Name and through the blood of Jesus, and quoting Scriptures to bind Satan in your prayer such as "Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace" and "there has no temptation taken you (including the temptation to despair) that is not common to man, but God WILL make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it", "those that the Father has given Me are Mine, and no one can take them out of My Father's hand," "the Devil comes only to steal, kill, and destroy; I have come that they may have Life, and have it more abundantly," and "For this purpose the Son of Man came--to destroy the works of the devil."
My son today is a fine young man--still growing and searching, but he belongs to the Lord who has him in His hands.
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Believe me, if he could get rid of it on his own, he would so I don't believe it's a matter of "won't". He wants rid of it more than anyone but at this point, he's probably feeling forlorn and hopeless along with angry and resentful and wondering how this hell on earth happened to him which can seem or look like he's not trying.
I've dealt with it in a young family member who was very devout. I think Satan goes after anyone with great potential, especially young males. It was the greatest spiritual battle our family has ever fought and it took years.
Don't ever appear to give up or place blame. Stay upbeat and encouraging in front of him no matter how helpless you feel...he will sense it if you get discouraged and he will feel even more hopeless. Your display of faith that things will get better is what he needs to see. It is so easy, when you are weary of the long battle, to want to blame the person for not trying hard enough...it's literally the worst thing you can do.
Keep In mind that when your prayers are answered, it may not be exactly what you want...our young person left our church and went to another that we wouldn't have chosen. We didn't care at that point...he was better and he was happy and still just as devout.
You are all in my most heartfelt prayers!
I've dealt with it in a young family member who was very devout. I think Satan goes after anyone with great potential, especially young males. It was the greatest spiritual battle our family has ever fought and it took years.
Don't ever appear to give up or place blame. Stay upbeat and encouraging in front of him no matter how helpless you feel...he will sense it if you get discouraged and he will feel even more hopeless. Your display of faith that things will get better is what he needs to see. It is so easy, when you are weary of the long battle, to want to blame the person for not trying hard enough...it's literally the worst thing you can do.
Keep In mind that when your prayers are answered, it may not be exactly what you want...our young person left our church and went to another that we wouldn't have chosen. We didn't care at that point...he was better and he was happy and still just as devout.
You are all in my most heartfelt prayers!
IMO, he needs to talk to a mental health professional, and quickly. I know depression so well it’s like a second skin for me.
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Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
agreed, but make sure it's a Christian (real) counselor, and not some woke ultra-liberal that will tell him he needs a sex-change operation or something.
Barry Natchitoches
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Prayers sent!