Please Please Pray for my nephew

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Jennifier
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Post by Jennifier » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:11 pm

My nephew not even 3 years old came home from his grandmothers house saying that she hurt him. We think that he may have been sexually abused. Please pray that all the darkness be brought into the light and that Tuesday night when the Christian child phyc. comes to speak to him in my home that the Holy Spirit will guide him and allow my nephew Deven to feel comforted and safe with the phyc. named Brian so that the truth comes out. My nephew is acting so different and I am so upset. I am leaning on the fact that the Lord is always in control and that everything will be brought out and that we will get him all the help that he needs and that the person responsible will be punished. I am very upset so if this sounds at all not nice I do appoligize but my anxiety is getting to me the more I think about it. Please pray for his safety and that he will talk and allow us to know all that what is going on with him. He has all the signs and that is so bothering to me, he also when asked admits to things and then takes them back and I need the truth to come out so that we can help this little boy. I ask you all to pray for him a sound mind so that he is able to sleep and able to not allow this to affect him for the rest of his life. All things through Christ strengths me and that is what I keep thinking I just ask everyone to take a moment to pray so that we can all get help for him. Thanks and sorry for rambling. God bless you all and thanks for all your prayers.

Jennifier
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Post by Guest » Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:31 pm

Hi Jennifer,

My prayers are with you and especially your nephew. I hope nothing bad happened to him, I've never had to deal with that but being a father, and just being human there is no place on this world for anyone that would hurt a child! I can't offer any advice, just my sympathy to you and your family. Anytime I hear of a chils being molested my blood boils so I should go. God Bless

Guest

Post by Guest » Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:50 pm

I prayed that God will bring out the truth and protect you son and your family.

Guest

Post by Guest » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:04 pm

Jennifer,
My heart-felt prayers are with you and your family. I pray for this to come to light and then the memories of what happened to be erased from his mind. It hurts to think of an innocent child carrying abuse through his life.
This is totally different, but my son deals with his dad's anger issues and doesn't like to talk about it and changes his story so nobody will get mad at his dad. He loves his dad. BUt I always tell him that he is loved NO MATTER what and that nothing he will say to me will ever change that. Plus if we bring the truth to light we can get help for the abuser/person taking out anger on a child. My son's doc wants him in counseling but dad refuses so, I'd love to hear how your nephew does with his counselor and how he gets him to open up. A lot of victims feel like protecting the person hurting them is what I've read.
Nevertheless, our prayers are with you all. Please keep us updated and thank you for being there for him.

Guest

Post by Guest » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:24 pm

I'd like to just say something that i hope will help put you at ease. I believe if he was sexually abused you have definately got him at a young enough age that you can prevent alot of pain and suffering in the future.

What kinds of things does he admit to and take back? It sounds that if you are right about your suspicion that someone has told him not to say anything and so as long as he is told that it is alright to say these things and that he won't get into trouble it should be enough to allow him to open up. I wish the best for you, and your nephew

Mike

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Post by Holly J » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:01 pm

Hi Jennifer, I wish you and your family well. I was abused as a child and eventhough my parents found out, they ignored it for years. About 20 years later when I had my son, it just came out of me as if it happened yesterday. Soooo, I know there is no good in all this situation, but if it did happen at least you and your family can get him counseling soon, which will allow him to heal. Good for you and your family for having the psych come. Even if you think they won't get anything out of him, they know the signs and they will be able to get down to the bottom of this. I just went through a child custody case and my son was on a mission to save his time with his dad, his dad had coached him, shown him all the legal documents and had his attorney talked to him, and guess what... the evaluator knew immediately and gave him no validity. I won and got 75% of the time with my son. So good luck to you. I will pray for you and your family. God bless your nephew.
"Come to me, all who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)"

jess23
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Post by jess23 » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:25 am

Blessings to all,

Jennifier I'm in complete agreement as to your hearts concerns and prayers. I do know we serve a mighty and righteous God. I'm not thankful that this incidence occurs to anyone but I;m humble that your nephew is at a young enough age to recover if family will allow him too by not forcing him to relive the past......If we pray and ask God to heals us from the past, and he does then why do many still choose to relive it????? I pray that no weapon formed against this child shall prosper and the peace of God be upon you Jennifier that surpasses all understanding...........Anxiety is an overwhelming amount of emotions...........You have to let it go and let God so you can continue to heal yourself and pick up from the progress you have so divinely achieved.

I sent this to someone else but I think it will be of benefit to you as well.....

It's in the place of silence that the Holy Spirit boils the truth we receive from Scripture down to its essence, reveals specific insights that are pertinent, and then applies them to our most perplexing problems and our most stubborn misconceptions. As He transforms our heart to beat in sync with His, our decisions begin to accomplish His will and we begin to reflect His character. Go ahead, try it. Open the Word of God in a peaceful place and sit in quietness before Him. In time, the Holy Spirit will illuminate a passage and it will come to life in your mind. Before you know it the knotty situation that drove you to distraction will unravel.

As you learn to "be still" in God's presence, your greatest problems will suddenly become more manageable. He will reveal Himself to you. He will calm your emotions and relieve your mind. You'll discover new direction, freedom from worry, and a fresh sense of peace.


Blessings in Jesus name
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Post by Guest » Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:14 pm

Thank you and God bless you all. In a few hours the psychitrist will be here and my stomache is in knots. I am going to pray before he gets here with my sister. I am so nervous to find out what is going to be said. It just all breaks my heart, I can't believe that people even do these things. I know that it is done, but I guess you never really think about it intil it hits home. I watched my nephew last night back up and look scared from a woman that had dark hair, so does his grandmother. There is so much to the story, but all I can say is tonight the truth will come out, in the name of Jesus. I just hope that no matter what the Lord will prepare me, I know he doesn't give us more than what we can handle, but this is pushing it to the point my house is spotless and I keep trying to find other things to do. I will write tomorrow and let all of you know what happens.

I want to say curlygirl I am sooo sorry to hear that these things happened to you and that your parents didn't do anything. I hope this post didn't bring up the past for you. I just need to know people are praying and this is like therapy. I pray that you will if not already get the healing you need.

Believer08, thanks for your kind words. That gave me alot of comfort, and I know that with all of this, everything happens for a reason. Devens grandmother is a caregiver so I hope that nothing else has happend. My anxiety has been tested all day but it hasn't overcome me. Thanks for all your prayers.

bevhembree, I thank you for all your prayers and I will keep you informed with all that is going on. I pray that your son will get healing as well and that maybe his dad will change his mind about the counseling. I know that it helps.

Panic attack Lance,

Thanks for your prayers! Me being a mother this has gotten me real upset but I have now given it to the Father.

SCDon,

Thanks for your prayers. I stand on the truth and I pray that the protection from his mind will be added and memory erased so that this doesn't effect him. God bless you!

NinjaFrodo,

I have to say that I am glad that it has been caught so early. But once is to much for me. He has said that his grandmother has hurt him and then has asked other kids to do sexual things that no child should even know about. He is screaming at the top of his lungs crying to get out of public bathrooms and is scared to take baths. he has began to wet the bed again, he has all the signs of being abused. He will go and hide in small areas and he will zone out and not respond. He isn't my same nephew at all. Thanks for your prayers and your right he will open up, we will all pray that he does and the Lord will allow him to feel comfortable.

I will let you all know what is up later on tomorrow.

Jennifier Cherry

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Post by Guest » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:14 am

Thank you all for your prayers. My nephew went straight up to him and was comfortable and began playing with him. They went into my daughters room and began playing with toys and they began their session. I need your prayers more than ever because he has been molested and he opened up and told the psyc everything. Brian said that it was like he wanted to tell someone everything so bad. I have to say that it broke my heart last night. Please pray now for him to get the help he needs to be healed and not to suffer from this his whole life. Let the new psychitrist be wonderful with him, Brian is only trained to get kids to talk which usually at the age of 2 takes many many sessions, now he is referring her to someone else that deals directly with this issue. I didn't sleep last night well at all, and all I could do is pray that God give us all strength. Please also pray that his grandmother be charged and convicted without a long lengthy trail so we don't have to go through all this. I praise God for the answered prayer, my nephew never goes straight up to anyone so God most definently moved there. It was amazing. Please keep Deven in all of your prayers. I am going to try to call the prayer line tonight it just depends on how things go. I am going to get with my sister to see if I can do something, because she almost lost it last night but I kept talking to her and told her what to do next. Please keep her in all of your prayers as well, she has a 3 month old son as well. Thanks and God bless you all!

Jennifier

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Post by Guest » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:14 am

Little Deven as well as the rest of your family are definitely in my thoughts and prayers, Jennifer. What a horrible thing, hopefully because he is so young and it was stopped so quickly he will be able to work through it and put it behind him, but I hope his abuser has to think about it every day for her lifetime!

Please keep us posted, what a brave little Angel he was to talk to the psych!!!

Hugs, Tara

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