I am literally days away from my wedding day. My soon-to-be husband has a child with an ex-girlfriend of his. While pregnant, before she even told him she was for sure, she ran off to the other side of the country. She had the child there, but promised time and again to come back. She never did. Now his son is almost 15 months old, and he has only ever gotten to spend 1 day with this precious little boy. And only because he flew thousands of miles both directions to get to where his son is, just for that one day.

She made it clear that his son wouldn't be at the wedding, and has followed through with that. Also I, and my daughter, will never have a part in HER child's life. He didn't even get to talk to his son on the phone on Father's Day. Now, less than 48 hours before our wedding, she calls and starts a fight with him while he's at work. Every time they've fought recently, it's caused his stress level to go through the roof. And I usually pay the price for that, by the fact we start fighting all the time. So now, on the eve of the beginning of our life together, I'm scared for what the next few days will hold.

I need God's strength to be for Chris what he needs right now so that he can pass through whatever she's throwing at him. I need God to be with him, and calm the anger and hatred she stirs up in him. To heal the hurts she inflicts when she tells him he will never have any part in his son's life. I am desperate to have God intervene on our behalf, and stop what this horrible woman is doing not only to my fiance, but their child as well. He doesn't even know who his dad is, because she refuses to let my fiance be part of the boys life.

God please, I know it is for your will to be done, but I can't believe such a good man and father is meant to be have his child kept from him. I know in my heart it's not that a child be kept in a bad living environment where he is always 2nd to his sister, and her needs- no matter what cost there is to him- in all things. Especially not when there is a good and loving home here with us for him. Father, please, move now. Bring things to their rightness soon. In your Son's precious name, Amen

God bless you all!

I am struggling to keep my head up. My depression seems to be getting worse. My struggles to find reassurance that my upcoming wedding is what God has planned for me and my fiance (and we're literally days away from the wedding). I am in need of one minor change in my finances to free me of so many chains. I feel like all this stress and strain is testing my faith to the breaking point. I need to let God have all of it, I know that. I am trying, but I can't seem to do it right. I carry it with me even though I don't want to. God, please, help me. I am in such a dark place right now, and I need your light and assurance that better things are to come. Help me, please....

I'm just days away from my wedding, and my fiance and I are starting to fight all the time. I know we both have stress in our life, and the wedding is just adding to that. But this is horrible. We can't talk at all anymore without arguing. I pray that God will show me the purpose of this mess, to bring me clarity as to whether this rift is the devil working to steal what God has given he and I (our relationship with one another) or if this is divine intervention- God trying to tell us that this marriage isn't what he wants for us. I don't feel like I'm getting an answer. I was SO sure up until now, and now I don't know what to do. I really need God's wisdom and guidance. Thank you all and God bless.

I am at a low point right now. I should be thrilled, I'm getting married in a week. It's not that I'm unhappy about getting married. God has brought an amazing man into mine and my daughter's life, and I have no concerns about our choice to get married. But I feel like the devil is just stealing all my happiness. My depression is just really bad, even though I've taken my medication just like I"m supposed to. I just really need some extra help right now. Please pray that God will give me a little extra of his strength right now. I really need it. Thank you and God bless you all.

I ask that God will give me strength in the coming months. I've started a new schedule at my work, and I just found out today that 3 days out of the week, I will be put in fairly close contact with a woman I used to be very good friends with. She lived with me for a time after she escaped her abusive husband. But then when she decided to start sleeping with a married co-worker, and I wouldn't give her the go ahead to continue with that affair, she has been nothing but nasty to me since. In fact at the beginning of this year, while I was going through a very difficult time, she joyfully kicked me while I was down, then became very defensive and angry when I rebuked her for her actions. She is a very selfish and self centered person. Her unwillingness to back off and leave the married man alone ended up causing the couple to split up and later divorce. She claims to miss my friendship, but still has nothing but venom for me it seems. She hasn't spoken to me since New Years Day, and that was when she cut me down. Now I need the strength to be God's hands and feet for this woman. To be His voice and light in her life in those moments where I'm in a position to do so. But my human nature tells me to lash out and be hurtful to her for all the pain she's caused me. Please God, give me the strength to do the right thing. Stir up your Holy Spirit in me so that I will feel you guiding me in all things, but most especially in this. In your precious son's name, my savior and redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen!

I would ask your prayers for a dear girl in a bad situation. She is the daughter of my ex-husband's girlfriend. I don't know specifics, but she is far from her mother right now, and in a bad way. I understand she has already been diagnosed with a mental health disorder, at the so young age of 15, and is really struggling. My ex and his girlfriend are both disabled and on a very fixed income, so it is making it hard for them to get to where she is to bring her home. I'm loaning what I can to help in this endeavor, and it's my prayer that it will be enough. I just ask that you all pray that God will surround this dear child with His comfort and strength and hold her tight until her family can get to her and bring her out of this situation. Thank you all and God bless you!

Right now I really need strength. I need the endurance to run this race to it's completion, and to run it as God would have me run it. Anger and hatred keep creeping up in me, and when they do I have to fight so hard to get free from them. So rather than being a light to this world, all my energy is going towards trying to keep myself from becoming the very thing I don't want to be. I try to give it over to God, and for a short time it works, but they keep coming back. I pray that God would send his angels, his warriors, to stand by me and help me fight this fight so that it will end in victory. Thank you all and God bless!

I am really in need of prayers for guidance and strength. I suffer from bi-polar disorder, and even with my medications, I still struggle at times. Times like this last few weeks. I can see where the moments are that it gets a hold on me, but I feel powerless to stop it once it starts. I need God's intervention and strength in those moments. I need direction on where my life is supposed to be going. I need the strength to be a good wife to my soon to be husband, and be the God fearing woman he needs in his life. I need so much, and at times like this, though I know it's otherwise, it hardly seems that calling out to just one person will be enough. I just need reassurance that, as I already know, God is/was/always will be enough for me. I thank you all for your prayers, and I pray God blesses each and everyone of you at your point of need. In Jesus glorious name. Amen!

I need strength so badly right now. The devil is surrounding me on all sides with so many different means that he wants to use to destroy me, my joy in life, and all those around me- namely my relationships with them. Please pray that God will surround me with his protection and give me strength to stand against these tests and trials. Thank you and God bless you all at your point of need as well.

Heavenly Father, I don't understand why I am faced with this kind of situation. Father, you know what it would mean for Chris and I to have his son here next month when we get married. I don't understand how anyone can be so hateful and selfish and do such damage to her own child. Why won't the child's mother relent and accept that Chris isn't with her anymore, and no amount of her games will change that? Why can't she see that the damage she is doing will come home to her some day? Why can't she see that she's hurting and stealing from her own child? Father, please move on Emily's heart. Help her to see clearly what she is doing. Take away from her the darkness and evil residing in her heart and show her what damage she is doing to her son. Help her to accept that he choices and actions cost her her relationship with Chris, and nothing she does is going to change that. Help her to understand that Chris and I will be married, and that I'm not going anywhere, ever. Stop this wickedness in her. Stop her evil from winning in this situation. Guide Chris and I, that we might free his son from this game that Emily is playing, before to much damage is done. Move our hearts and place in us the will to see Emily as you want us to see her. Help us to approach this situation with love, not hate. But Father, I ask that you help us be successful in getting this child away from this extrememly unstable, and in my assessment dangerous, woman- for the child's sake above all others. God, please help me in this to be the wife that Chris needs right now. He needs your strength Lord. He is so wounded by this. You know the decisions that he is considering, and you know what that will do to him if he finds that choice to be his only course of action. Father, may your will be done in this. I ask that you place your hand of protection on that dear child, and keep him safe from all of the things around him that could harm him, and from the poison that has infected his mother. I pray in the precious name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ... Amen!