Email Testimony
Dear Dave,
Our son, who was 50 years old in 2020, announced that he was trans. This was a complete shock for us. He also has bipolar and is an alcoholic, twice divorced, father of two. My husband and I were shocked to the bone, because this is something we would never have dreamed. There’s not one feminine thing about Jim. He was living with us at the time, after a divorce, during the lockdown of covid, looking for a job, and not finding one. He had had a 6-figure income job in Switzerland for 15 years, traveled all over the world teaching some procedure he devised for the insurance company he worked for. Then laid off for alcohol, divorced from atheist French second wife….he was a mess.
I cannot describe the pain we went through in the next 7 months, until he moved out of state to live in a trailer on a friend’s property. He’s a musician, so was playing in bands and recording these in his home studio. I was unable to even hear his voice on the phone. Our other son was so appalled by this, that the relationship (which had always been good) was completely broken. I hid from friends. Some found out, but several we only told in the last few months. My husband had to deal with him in business matters, but I never talked to him. The pain, anguish over this is indescribable. God spoke to me soon after this happened and said, like a ticker-tape in my head, “I am with you.” I’ve held on to this ever since.
However, I knew that satan had gotten ahold of him. In Switzerland he and his first wife walked away from their Christian faith, so satan moved in. I’ve known about spiritual warfare my whole Christian life. I started rebuking the devil, praying as you teach, and with assurance that God would heal him of bipolar illness, alcoholism, and “perversity”. For the past 2 years I’ve experienced night “visitations” from shadowy, gauzy beings that wake me up just as I’m falling asleep. I scream at them to get out of here, in the name of Jesus, and they disappear immediately. I know that satan is trying to intimidate me to stop praying for my son by rebuking him and his demons. My Scripture has been 2 Timothy 2:20-26, that God would bring Jim to his senses, and he would escape the snare of the devil, and God would make him a vessel for His use (paraphrased).
In early March I asked for prayer in the PM chat and had several very encouraging and powerful comments made to me by the chat folks. On March 27 of this year Jim called us and told us the “gender dysphoria” is gone, and told me he is a Christian. Since then I’ve talked to him several times, and this is real. I didn’t know if this would happen in my lifetime, and we are both overjoyed beyond description. He and his brother have reconciled. Jim has wasted about 15 years being agnostic (or whatever he was), and he’s paying the price of God’s discipline. He’s not back in church or reading his Bible that I know of, but he’s a man again. He said he feels so masculine, he’s going to grow sideburns! (Thank God he never did the hormone/surgery thing.) He is practically penniless, but is at least working in his music field, where he should have been all along.
I’m so very grateful to you for your teaching, and also for all the encouraging remarks the people on the chat make – not just to me, but to others. I read the comments nearly every day and pray for all who are putting up prayer needs.
Thank you more than I can express!
Blessings to you and Denise,
Susan
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