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[Pastor]

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[JBPrather]

Thank you for letting me join your church. Here is a little about me and what is going on in my life; ( i sent another but the system isn't letting me send a message);

My wife left me (disappeared) Dec. 26th 2008 (on Friday). i have thus had a plethora of troubles since then. The home we lived in, (an estate willed to me by my father, where we also lived for 19 years of our marriage, and became mine in 2004) , burned down Jan 01, 2009, while i was gone. (mysterious circumstances). My truck appeared suddenly at a friends a day later Dec.27th , with a strange note and my debit card and a credit card (in my fathers name) maxed out at 30,000! Since then, i have been living meagerly while local authorities uncover the weird goings on, from a woman I was married to, but I guess I never really knew. A restraining order arrived from Tulsa, OK. Jan. 7th, (this had been filed Dec.31st but i didn’t receive it till Jan. 7th) with a damning report of how she was abused for 19 years. Although I have a card from our 19th wedding anniversary, saying how much of a wonderful husband I am, and how glad she was to be married to me. And how much she loved me. (Completely a lying woman) as i have never had a law enforcement officer at my home in all the years married, and I have never had so much as a speeding ticket.
I swear, the internet is to blame. I believe she may have found a sinister (MR. or MRS. X). Someone adept at criminal activity, or even a law enforcement personnel either working or retired. This has been planned as far as I’ve figured out since 2007, when the credit card was activated. (She went to the Post office and retrieved the mail daily). The day she left, my youngest boy turned 18 (Dec.27th). And I think she had thus planned to leave when he was 18. And now he is living in another town. As he was picked up on Friday Dec. 26th by friends of her family to stay in the nearby town for New Years. I have not been able to contact my sons, (all in the area of her family. (I have no living family left, and she knew it.) The Saturday that the vehicle arrived home, I had thus went to her folks to talk to them about her disappearance. Her dad is dying of emphysema. And is in later stages. I have not seen them in a number of years since my father passed away, and have remained in good standing with them, or so i thought. But, they acted strangely, and concluded that i should retrieve the 1500.00 savings my father left my oldest boy to get a car and pay for future schooling. I agreed and went to the bank to unlock his savings the day of 30th as I told them i would. When i went to the apt. to give the money to my boy, a policeman was there in a car waiting. And I was told that I had been calling and harassing them and even had called his work and harassed his boss at Wendy's. (Which i never did. I had been at the bank all day and it took about 2 1/2 hours from noon to get the account straitened out) I thus was given a verbal do-not contact order and i have not been back since. This is and was reported to the Sherriff’s offices in my county as these events occurred, as a record. But, to date, going on to March, I have not heard from my ex-wife, my kids or anyone in her family. And strange thing is, i have lost everything. The house, the wife, the kids contact and she gets to skip state somewhere on the run while i sit here and go through hell with the investigations and the credit card hassles. I cannot believe, someone who loved his wife like I did, has had to endure these events. I feel like I have been in a horror movie. I have thus had to live on the kids savings to try to live. And it is running out. She , get this called Dec. 28th and closed our house cleaning business with our 22 clients. And I found out by calling that some of them didn’t even exist!
But, here I am. Here i sit. And (in the words of Oh Brother Where art thou ((MOVIE)) , r-u-n-n-o-f-t. But. Jobs are now scarce and I have been loving here and there with 2 friends i have left. Trying to find my life again. But I’m sinking quick. HELP! I have exhausted all my resources. And the area help programs here in Indiana have all but been spent due to the economy. (She picked a fine time to leave me.) An that is why i believe it was all planned. And i really don’t know why i am still alive, now. I am truly all alone. I need legal help to wrangle out of the other stuff i have not covered here, like how she had the home insurance changed into both our names, about a year and 8 months to the date she left. Now they are waiting for divorce proceedings ot see where it will go. I filed first, (hopefully, as the family lawyer who kept my fathers estate in 2004) helped me do. But he's so lame busy that he won't return my calls or even other clients in the small town of Frankfort. Its normal for this lawyer to be this way. And I figured he would know th family situation since he knew my mother and father and the whole family. But I cant get the system to work for me there. No wonder she ran to Oklahoma. She will benefit with better legal matters there. I am totally ruined. - (Scarred and frazzled in Indiana - I don't know what to do wish I had someone to give me advice maybe even represent me, this is fraud, and she is at the reigns)

(please pray for me

In Dec. 26 2008 a day after christmas my wife of 19 1/2 years left me, she didnot come home from work

Dec. 23, 2008 - I discovered she stole 2 credit cards from my deceased father and ran up a 40,000 dollar bill. She activated the cards from the mailbox when they came sometime around 2006

Jan. 01, 2009 - my home burned down while i was at work painting,-Firemarshall and INS. CO. say the home was arsoned

Jan. 7, 2009 - Recd restraining order from wife from Oaklahoma. Saying she suffered 19 1/2 years abuse, but our anniversary card says to me, what a loving husband i was for all the years past April 1, 2008

Wife has estranged me from my 18 & 19 year old kids, (haven't talked to them in months) she set this up too.

The insurance was forged (she signed my name on it to put hers on the policy) the insurance co. let her helped her do it.

UPDATE** Heather (the EMT) at my fire scene Mar. 10, 2009 is shot to death by her ex-husband after being held confined for 8 hours. (She was a major witness in the fire, because she was the last person at my house, she and a fireman kicked down my door thinking i was inside while i was gone) now, she is dead.
What is going on???
I need your prayers. I have been set-up by a woman i thought was my best friend. She was a very honest (i thought) and loving person and we likened each other as shool kids all our marrage. One day she just disappears!
Please pray for me. i dont know how much more i can take.

As you can see, i am in need of spiritual guidance.
-Joe

[Pastor]

Hello and welcome to Temple Baptist Church.

I have added you to our prayer list. We will pray that 'Gods will' will be done in your life.

As I read through your prayer request one thought has stood out in my mind. It is Gods will "that all things work together for good to them that love God" Romans 8:28. People can and will do bad things, but people are just tools that can be used for bad or good. Sometimes people allow them selves to become tools of satan, most of the time people are just tools of their own desires and selfish motives, very rarely do people allow them selves to be tools for God. It doesn’t mater how much people may hurt us, or treat us wrongly, we are not to hate the people they are just the tools. Nowhere are we promised to live a life with out pain or trial, but we are told to love our enemies, and those who hurt us (Mathew 5:44). While this is a very difficult task, obviously easier said then done, we are given this great promise that God will make it all work together for good.

I do not know your testimony, if you are born again, or not.
Please e-mail me pastor @ Temple Baptist Livermore (dot) com I will be happy to discuss this with you more.

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