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Praise God!
I'm am thrilled to report that Troy is ok and he's still with us!
Our prayers have been answered and he did not attempt to take his own life!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to pray for God to deliver him from Satan's evil grip.
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33 Comments:
Praise God!
Bruce
I 2nd that-PRAISE GOD!!!
Besides-From what I can tell it doesn't look like it's heaven you go to when one takes it upon themselves to end their life.
We better leave the timing of that up to YHWH & not allow Satan to craftily talk us into joining him for eternity instead.
Time to circle the wagons & put ALL of our spiritual warfare weapons & armor to use.
Thank you Jesus!!! This is the BEST news! Hang in there, Troy until you hear the trumpet sound to call you home in God's perfect time. Just a thought: The Bible tells us in Jeremiah that when God created the heavens and the earth, He did so with an outstretched arm. How much did it cost? Only His word. When He redeemed us, He did so with a mighty outstretched arm. How much did it cost? His only begotten Son. Troy, this means God values you more than He does the heavens and the earth since He spent everything to redeem you, everything!. And had you been the only person who needed redemption, He would have died on that cross just for you. He loves you. Don't even doubt it.
The next time the devil wants to remind you of your past, just remind him of his future. Did I mention? In Christ, I love you, too. I must, since I wept when I prayed and when I thought you might not still be running this race with us.
Praising Jesus right now!!!
Julie
So thrilled and praising God Troy has been delivered from a from 'a dark night of the soul'. Stay in God's word continually and under the shadow of his wings.
With Love in Christ!
km
Thank you Father, for your mercy. Thank you for allowing us to lift this precious soul up in prayer. We ask you to put him on a sure foundation for the glory of Your name. Draw near to him, Lord Jesus, and let him know how much he is loved.
thank You God!
I think that it is good to pray the next days for troy, and that he will see that God is watching over him.
( sorry for my bad englisch, i'm from holland ;) )
grtz bartjan
Praise the Lord, he has answered our prayers.
Thank you Jeff for sharing this difficult situation with the LUF(look up fellowship group). You may never know how many who are suffering the same situation read the comment section and received healing. Troy can print out the comment section and read all the prayers of the LUF group and know that strangers care about him. People who love God care about others who suffer. May God protect each and every believer in this difficult time.
Jodi
Hallelujah!! Praise the LORD!! The angels are singing today!! THANK YOU LORD!!
Micah 6:8 And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your GOD.
Troy, this has been quite a breathtaking way to meet you, brother. Oh! how we thank GOD that you are alright!!!! You certainly have many new friends here who obviously care about you very much - MOST OF ALL GOD - our LOVING heavenly FATHER.
Stay well, friend, and stay close to GOD. He will show you the way.
I m happy as well,
but he would have to search some stabile friend(s) close near him,
( apart from this blog) because it wont mean it couldn t dive down again.. - how he d do that..?
Lone
- added -
..because from now on, satan will isolate a soul first, and once being alone, not stop untill he destroyed
..same tactik as Project-topic...
Lone
the power of prayer at work!!
Holy God! Thank you for keeping Troy with us for a little while longer. We know that we are just like shadows or mists in the night, that we only last for a minute anyway. Now he can serve you and bless you and share your goodness with our brothers and sisters. You are awesome. In Christ. Amen.
Troy -- we love you, man!
this site isn't serious is it? you people understand how to use computers and you're actually this ignorant?
Thank you Lord! I was moved that the Lookup Fellowship is made real with prayers from brothers and sisters in Christ from all over the world - Jesus Christ did take down the wall of partition and united us all (Eph 2:14).
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (Heb 10:23-25)
***Profession of our FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING***
>>JRed, know that you're not alone.
God is at hand. May we remember these timeless words:
"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."(Matt 10:28)
Let me echo Bruce D. Collins & JRed: we better share the WORD, not the "NEWS"~!
I haven't been on your site JRed, for awhile and then I read this about Troy- Troy don't get down on yourself, Satan is putting the spirit of oppression and depression on you, because you are one of Yeshua's/Jesus' sheepfold.I know what it's like to feel consumed by the feeling of desperation, delusion, depression-I myself feel like a big nothing most days and I feel like the only thing I live for is to die and be with Yeshua. I attempted suicide many times in the past. I still struggle daily with the black dog of depression and at times I cannot handle it-so I just sleep to escape - when praying doesn't seem to help. Troy please my brother-KNOW- that Jesus/Yeshua feels your pain and you are worth everything to Him. This life can be cold and brutal and yes, I too have grown somewhat cynical and cold and I see a lot of darkness in the world, but I am trying to fight the good fight even with this thorn in the flesh. I will pray for you my brother and hold on, press into Jesus, surround yourself with good solid Christians.
All I can say is hang in there Troy- it will be worth it-even though it is really difficult when you are in a dark place. People will say I know what you're going through sometimes without really knowing, they try there best to console in time of need.Troy- I DO KNOW what it is like, so know that I am there with you - we will ride this darkness until the day of REDEMPTION comes - I will pray- MARANATHA. Your brother in Christ, Derek.
Troy,
There are plenty of Saints out here that have had and still do have their share of sins. I too struggle with all kinds of sin that just continues to plague me as I walk in this corruptable flesh. But one thing I have learned, as I too have contemplated taking my own life a while back, God has a plan for me. Just remember, it's not about your flesh and your sin. It's about what Jesus Christ did to pay for those sins. Here is a verse that I dwell upon and hold God to as one of His promises to me. He made a promise to you when He chose you Troy, don't ever let ANYONE take that away from YOU!!
Philippians 1:2-6
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, THAT HE WHO BEGAN A GOOD WORK IN YOU WILL CARRY ON TO COMPLETION UNTIL THE DAY OF JESUS CHRIST.
NONE of us deserve this free gift, from one beggar to another, but we take it and thank Him for it.
Another thing Troy-you may be like me and absorb way too much dark information and it starts taking it's toll. I have been studying so many dark subjects and the state of the church and the world. I start spiraling into an abyss of hopelessness, frustration,anger, depression and I think Yahweh WHY are you delaying ???? The world is a mess and the church is being swallowed up with deception!!! I have tried to stop studying, stop going onto this dang computer and stop doing my dang blog site... if I didn't feel so driven to keep going I would but I can't seem to stop. It is either the Holy Spirit or obsessive behaviour I don't know????
I feel like Jeremiah when he states-
But if I say, "I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I cannot endure it.Jeremiah 20:9
Troy, Jeremiah suffered great bouts of depression also and look how Yahweh/God used him.
Just thinking of my Christian brother, Troy and came across:
Along a rough stretch of road, Christian and Hopeful leave the highway to travel on the easier By-Path Meadow, where a rainstorm forces them to spend the night. In the morning they are captured by Giant Despair, who takes them to his Doubting Castle, where they are imprisoned, beaten and starved. The giant wants them to commit suicide, but they endure the ordeal until Christian realizes that a key he has, called Promise, will open all the doors and gates of Doubting Castle. Using the key, they escape. - Pilgrim's Progress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress
Love you my brother, Derek
Stay strong Troy. Our Savior is coming and it won't be much longer.
Tamara said it perfectly Troy! Remember your value to God, your father....remember that satan wants to bring each of us down..only throuhg Jesus are we lifted UP!
I pray you feel the love of God's people who will continue to lift you in prayer...
So many of us have come out of darkness. In this you really aren't alone though you may feel it. Be strong thouhg Him who cares...
Anonymous said...
this site isn't serious is it? you people understand how to use computers and you're actually this ignorant?
June 22, 2009 8:46 PM
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yes we use computers, pray for each other and thank God for our blessings and we are glad Troy is still with us.
i will add you to my prayer list too my friend.
God Bless us one and all.
In Jesus's Holy name, AMEN!
im sorry jred,
do you have positive, factual proof (not a skype phone call, not an email, not as msn)
that this was an actual person?
did the police visit his house?
did the police actually talk to this person?
or did you just receive an email from this purpoted person?
hmmmm...
im sorry, i just smell something...
ive been through too much to just accept this scenario at face value...
the bible sez: be wise as serpents...
Troy, read this site and these comments and know that there are people out there who care about you... most importantly, Jesus cares about you!!! Every single one of us sins everyday and it is by the grace of God he accepts us and forgives us when we repent and praise him. And know this, some of your greatest and most important lessons in life will be learned during the hard times, so think of Jesus who suffered and died on the cross. Suffering is sometimes a part of life... learn to praise God during the hard times and you achieve the life everlasting. May God bless you and lift your spirits.
TO: Anonymous who said...
"this site isn't serious is it? you people understand how to use computers and you're actually this ignorant?" June 22, 2009 8:46 PM -
Before you call us ignorant, read God's Word first. THEN judge us accordingly.
I plead the Blood of Jesus upon you, and that the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of your heart that you may know Whom it is we praise with the highest praise.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.
Read the story about Saul of Tarsus in the New Testament. He too felt that Christians were ignorant, until the Lord took hold of him and showed him the Truth. This Saul of Tarsus persecuted believers and I'm sure he too must have called Believers ignorant. But praise God with the mightiest praise that Jesus saw fit to choose this man for the testimony of Christ! I pray He does the same with and for you my friend. I claim you for Jesus!
Very good to hear, Thank God!
Yes we are all struggling and contending for the faith in these dark days yet we who are filled with the living word with our vessels overflowing are using the whole armor of YHWH GOD to stand and we are enduring to the end of this trial in this end of the age crooked and perverse generation as witness's waiting patiently for due time to be fufilled as the transgressors are come to the full...
Oh Abba strengthen us all both small and great in the faith and increase it in fuller measure for we having done all know not what else to do but STAND by faith...
Troy, and the Look up fellowship
An amazing story of over coming pain through God. While God creates the most beautiful song in the heart of his believer!
THE BIRTH OF THE SONG 'PRECIOUS LORD'
Back in 1932, I was a fairly new husband. My wife, Nettie and I were living in a little apartment on Chicago's south side. One hot August afternoon I had to go to St.. Louis where I was to be the featured soloist at a large revival meeting. I didn't want to go. Nettie was in the last month of pregnancy with our first child. But a lot of people were expecting me in St. Louis. I kissed Nettie good-bye, clattered downstairs to our Model A and, in a fresh Lake Michigan breeze, chugged out of Chicago on Route 66.
However, outside the city, I discovered that in my anxiety at leaving, I had forgotten my music case. I wheeled around and headed back.
I found Nettie sleeping peacefully.. I hesitated by her bed; something was strongly telling me to stay. But eager to get on my way, and not wanting to disturb Nettie, I shrugged off the feeling and quietly slipped out of the room with my music.
The next night, in the steaming St. Louis heat, the crowd called on me to sing again and again. When I finally sat down, a messenger boy ran up with a Western Union telegram. I ripped open the envelope. Pasted on the yellow sheet were the words: YOUR WIFE JUST DIED.
People were happily singing and clapping around me, but I could hardly keep from crying out. I rushed to a phone and called home. All I could hear on the other end was 'Nettie is dead. Nettie is dead.'
When I got back, I learned that Nettie had given birth to a boy. I swung between grief and joy. Yet that same night, the baby died. I buried Nettie and our little boy together, in the same casket. Then I fell apart.
For days I closeted myself. I felt that God had done me an injustice.. I didn't want to serve Him anymore or write gospel songs. I just wanted to go back to that jazz world I once knew so well. But then, as I hunched alone in that dark apartment those first sad days, I thought back to the afternoon I went to St. Louis. Something kept telling me to stay with Nettie. Was that something God? Oh, if I had paid more attention to Him that day, I would have stayed and been with Nettie when she died.
From that moment on I vowed to listen more closely to Him. But still I was lost in grief. Everyone was kind to me, especially one friend. The following Saturday evening he took me up to Maloney's Poro College, a neighborhood music school. It was quiet; the late evening sun crept through the curtained windows.
I sat down at the piano, and my hands began to browse over the keys. Something happened to me then. I felt at peace. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I found myself playing a melody, once into my head they just seemed to fall into place: 'Precious Lord, take my hand, lead me on, let me stand, I am tired, I am weak, I am worn, through the storm, through the night, lead me on to the light, take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home.'
The Lord gave me these words and melody, He also healed my spirit. I learned that when we are in our deepest grief, when we feel farthest from God, this is when He is closest, and when we are most open to His restoring power.
And so I go on living for God willingly and joyfully, until that day comes when He will take me and gently lead me home.
-Tommy Dorsey-
I love this story, I thought I would share it with the Look up fellowship.
I my self am an artist, and have used my painful past to design Comfort Wear jewelry. Created to help encourage people to seek the Lords comfort during difficult times. When we give our pain to the Lord you will be amazed at what he will do with your life..
God Bless, Susan
www.comfortwearjewelry.com
Praise God indeed!
Steve
my friends wife also had a bad weekend, she wanted to check out of life here ,thinking my friend would be better off and that she was a failure , she was brought through the week-end and has some peace about their financial situation,
I think the dark side with the summer solstice, or God ready to take us out of here, are getting desperate, to take as many as they can down and out,, if it were possible .so there must be more that need prayer protection as well.
they [the dark side] can not fully act as long as the retrainer still restrains and all prayer on the vulnerable can and does help as we have seen .
please continue to pray for all those in like situations.
let us stand in the gap,
God still will yet do something soon let us not give up on waiting with faithfull excitement for His coming [the bridesmaids trimmed their lamps to burn cleaner at His arrival
Troy,
You must now understand there are people out there that feel the same way you do. I have ask God at times to give me some direction and have been left standing with my hands cross in prayer and received no answer. However in reality the answer has been there all along.
God knows every hair on your head, he knows where you have been and where you are going. You are here for a reason. God only knows what that reason is and will reveal it to you when he is ready.
I live knowing I have had an effect on people around both friends and enemy alike. I worked last year for a man (My Boss) as he would tell me. He was twenty five years my junior in both management experience and knowledge of the computer system we were working with. It took everything I possessed to refrain from putting him in his place.
Over the course for our association I attempted to help him grow as a manager with some basic advice. One morning I was going to the break room for some coffee. I invited him to join me. He always had to much work to take a break. After a few months he saw that I had the whole department taking a morning break together. He asked why I was starting this clutch. I explained that it was a way to bind the unit together and have a warm professional working environment. Two weeks later his boss called me in and I was fired for no given reason, but on my way out of the building I saw (my boss) and the department going to lunch. I call one of the CLUTCH that afternoon at work and asked how long they were going to lunch together. I was told for the last two weeks. God was using me for this reason I know I have a place in his overall plan. You do to just believe.
I don’t ask the Lord why something has happened. I don’t ask how or even when he plans to use me. I am here for a reason and he will use me as he sees fit and he will do the same with you. Have faith in the Lord our God he will cover you with his blessings and love. Troy all you need do is stop and count the blessings he is providing you. He ask for your love and worship for all is in his hands.
The blessings he is providing you with are all around you.
You see.
You hear.
You breath and think.
These are blessings you are to use and take advantage of every chance you get. The trick is knowing how to use these blessings. Pray for knowledge. Pray for wisdom. To gain knowledge but not have the wisdom to know how to use this knowledge is truly a waist of a gift.
You now have enough to think about for now. When you are ready for the next step write to Jeff and I’ll be watching.
Go with Gods love.
Don.H.
Thanks again to everyone who lifted up Troy in prayer.
I wanted to let everyone know that Troy just posted a nice message on my Facebook page that you all might want to read. Simply click the "Contact" tab from this site's Main Page and it should redirect you to my public Facebook profile.
I'd include it here, but I don't have permission from him to do so and just figured this was easier.
In Christ,
Jeff (JRed)
im sorry...
call me jaded but...
still not buying it...
its cuz of me being cyber stalked by this one person...
and my cell phone being hacked...
and my email being hacked...
jred, please be careful...
be very careful...
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