My 13 year old son in trouble

[NewInFaith]

Please help me with prayer.

My 13 year old son has gotten some bad friends and it gets from worse to worse. He is involved in criminal activities and have abandoned the church and his sports activities in order to hang out with these friends.
They are close to experimenting with drugs, if they have not already begun.

The council is aware of this, but help takes a long time to help, and the hour of councelling we have every 2 weeks is not making a difference.

My son does not come home, and I have lost all control.
Last week he was caught by the police for stealing.

Please pray. We are so desperate.
We want to send him away to a boarding school, to break the connections with these friends, but have not got the ecconomic means for it. So please also help to pray for a miracle that can help finance the route to help that we take.

Thank you so much.
Any encouragement is appreciated.

Also if anyone can give us some hope that all is not lost. We are so scared that this cannot be turned around.

 

[Quasicentennium]

God knows our future failures and successes. Your faith in Christ, together with our faith in Christ, since we are spiritually one union with Christ will sooner or later awaken the faith in your son - along with many sin-affected youths around the world, who have suffered the short-lived pleasures of drugs and alcohol where Satan wants to win victory by using these deceiving substances of pleasure-relieving depression from unemployment and debt-related issues with low-income families. May God's created positive substances such as fruit and vegetables, bread, meat and cheese fill their hearts and minds with joy, peace and wisdom that comes from the Word of God: the spiritual living bible that should be in every house, or every prison cell. Even as a prisoner, where these healthy fruits and vegetables/bread, meat and cheese should make the prisoner realize that these positive substances come from God. When the prisoner accepts Jesus, a new Christian individual is re-born to show peace and share the peace of Christ with other non-Christians who hunger for love, peace and joy that will show their true colors when Jesus returns in the future to transform us with new minds and bodies of Christ, as brothers and sisters of Christ where youth and health along with intelligence will keep us happy forever as we socialize together inside God's community-built city on a new Earth: the Kingdom of God **Rev21:2**.:*:.

 

[farout]

You did not mention if there is a husband, so I will assume there is not one.

You need to get a hold of this 13 year old. No matter what it takes. As long as he is under your leadership of your home, that's something you must drive home to him.

. You need to get the help of the authorities. If they will back you up, that would give some teeth in your demands.

No thirteen year old BOY should ever tell his mother what he is going to do. If you allow this to continue he is headed down the evil ones path.

Have you contacted you Pastor for help? Surely he would have some idea for help. There is the Boys and girls town that can offer some ideas for help. This may well be the last hope that you may get his head on the Lord. Other boys in a group can push your son into drugs, as you are aware of, and much worse deeds.

He is looking for acceptance at any cost, and a young boy will do almost anything to gain being part of a group.

I believe unless you take on your son now you may never be able force him to see how out of control he is. You need the prayers of this forum, and your church as well. Please let us know how your son is doing. God bless you.

 

[sass]

HI NewInFaith,
I will be praying for you and your son.....I know what it is like to feel so desperate as my son was into drugs with bad friends. With lots of prayer and loving him he has come around. There is hope my friend as hard as it is keep praying and pray for a protective hedge around him. My prayers are with you and your family. Keep praying and believing that he will come around with God's help. Prayer works!

 

[TheWidowsOffering]

Have prayed for you and for your son that the Lord may intervene in his life. I too, has a brother who is a trouble maker in the family and we always fear for his life every time he's not in the house. But as we continually keep him in prayer, the Lord is faithful to answer, now he already has his own family, no longer with the influence of drugs, though he still drink a little everyday. But more or else he's no longer a trouble these days... Amen

We may indeed loose control about anything in our lives, but knowing that we have a Great and Awesome God, we can depend on Him Sis. God bless!!!


Sister in the Lord Jesus Christ,


TheWidowsOffering


Psalm 121

King James Version (KJV)

121 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

 

[AbbysAunt]

Hi NewInFaith,

I want to encourage that indeed God can turn things around for you, your family and your son. My mom can attest to how many times she too worried about my sister and myself. When my sister was a teen she too hung out with the wrong crowd and was into partying, drinking and though I cant say for sure I do think there may have been drugs. For many years this went on, but my mom never gave up and now my sister is the mother of two beautiful children and married and runs an apartment complex...what is impossible for man alone is not impossible for God...my mom prayed nonstop for her and God answered even though it took longer than she might liked He did answer. Now, for me my turn came when I was in my late 20's early 30s and I too went along with someone who was not all they appeared to be. I got into things that were not only harmful to me but they were things I said I would never do, but there I was in a mess and once again my mom was left to pray for a daughter who was headed down the wrong the path, but once again God intervened and had my mom speak directly to me on what was going on and she let it be known this person was not welcome to call me on her phone at all that she was not going to watch me keep going into a burning building over and over again and then she said to me " You have God or the way you are living now" the way I was living was this..I was dying in everyway possible, but after having that talk with my mom literally in tears I went to God and He pulled out of the pit I had got myself into and here I am today over 12 years later Praising Him for each day I have because without Him and my mom who prayed for both me and my sister we wouldn't be here today. Don't give up NewinFaith..keep on praying and knowing that God is in control and that when things look the most impossible that God does make it possible for things to turn around in our lives and the lives of those we love.

You are back in prayer by many here on Talk Jesus and I will also be praying for your son that God's protection be with Him wherever he goes and that his eyes are open to the turth about these friends he is hanging out with. I am also praying for you and your family too. For God's peace and comfort to fill and surround you all. God bless you NewInFaith now and always. Jesus loves you very much and loves your son very much too and is always there...hold on to Him and never let go and know that He is God.

Psalm55:22 Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Proverbs3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will shall direct your paths.

Trust Him even when things seem so out of control and you feel helpless and are asking why is this happening to us Lord...keep on trusting Him with all you have and lean on Him He is and will be there for you and your son and whole family. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.

 

[NewInFaith]

Everyone here!
Thank you for the encouragement. My goodness I needed to hear those things.
I will print this thread and use it as encouragement when I feel hopeless about the situation.

Yes, we have been praying for about a year now. We have also asked our friends to pray.
I have spoken to our pastor about it also but she recomended that I contact a councellor.
This we have done, but it all takes time, before they act and invest ressources in this situation.

It just seems that it does not help, and I am exhausted from worrying for such a long time. I feel that I do all that people recomend and I pray. But things have not gotten better. Every now and then it looks like things have gotten better, but within a coupe of weeks, it shows that it actually got worse. It is hard.

But I am so grateful for your encouragement here. May God Bless you all for the hope you have all put in my heart again.

Thank you!