Expert: Elder Greg Madden - 10/20/2006

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yes i am a born again christian june 9th 2002. my husband and his family are believers so is angel but they are catholics and believe they were baptized at birth. my husband likes my religion better and i havent pressured him but he is thinking of becoming a baptist. i am so happy he is cause when we have children it would be hard for us if we were of different religions. we both go to a small baptist church in the country and he likes it better cause he is taught stuff and feels fed when he leeves church. i hope one day he will feel the need to be baptised cause i would hate not to see him in heavan. but any way i would like to thank you for your help and i know that i should have handeled the situation with angel better. when i said fight it was not a phisical one but a verbal one but that was still wrong. i should have just handed it over to JESUS he can handel it better than i could but its just hard to watch her do that to my family. i will pray about it and i thank you for your time.     
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my husband has a rich aunt (elsie). this aunt has a best friend (angel) who lives with her (not gay)  noone in the family likes this woman(angel) we all believe she is only her (elsie) friend for her money. she has asked my husbands aunt if when she dies she could leave all her money to her. on occasion she has tape recorded her conversations with us and elsies other friends. she was very rude to me when i first dated my husband. she tries to be nice to our faces but she ooses with fake. when she sees that elsie is getting to close to her new friends she will call them and tell them that elsie wants nothing to do with them without elsie knowing. she has told elsie several lies about my husbands mom (elsie's sister) and dad saying that we want her money and dont care about her. she has called my family names. i can tell you storie after storie of all the things she has done to us to seperate us from our aunt. elsie complains about her when she is not around and tells us all she says aboout us and then when we get upset she takes angels side. i believe angel has brainwashed her. this past weekend me and angel got in a fight i confronted her about all the lies she was telling elsie. she of corse had an answer for everything and tried to make me believe that my husband and his family were after elsies money. needless to say my confrontation with her solved nothing and probably made things worse cause who knows what she twisted around and told elsie. my husbands family told me that if elsie wants they would help her to build the fire to burn all of her money if thats what she wanted to do with it. they are not hertin for money. they just want ther elsie and dont want to see all she worked for go to that meen woman who is only there to take it from her. any way my question is what do i do in this situation or what do we do ? and was i wrong for confronting her ? is there any bible scripture on this sort of thing ?
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Amanda,

Sorry for the late reply. To be honest with you, I am not sure exactly how to answer you. Let me ask you a few questions.

1. Are you and your husband a born-again Christians?
2. Is your aunt a Believer?
3. Is her friend a Believer?

These are the issues that must be dealt with first. Otherwise, all advise will be for nothing if everybody in this situation is lost and going to hell.

Amanda, there are so many things involved in your situation that for someone in my "disconnected" position to give you advice would be a disservice. Thought I can not give you specific advice, if you are a Believer, then here are a few things that I would council you to do.

1. Pray and ask God for the specific answer.
James 4:2
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

2. Fast for a spiritual breakthrough.
Mark 9:29
And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

3. Seek your pastor's guidance.
Jer 3:15
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Please let me know if this helps,
Elder Greg Madden

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Dear Amanda,
This is Elder Greg Madden, and I wanted to thank you for allowing me the privilege of answering your questions. And from my family to yours, I pray that you would have a blessed Thanksgiving Day!

Elder Greg
http://www.forministry.com/USOKPENTEMMM1


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Amanda,
You are welcome. I was glad to read that you are a Believer. I will be in prayer with you that God would work things out. Keep you faith and trust in Him and Him alone! It man not feel like it right now, but if you let it, even this situation will work out for your good.

Rom. 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

2 Cor. 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Please feel free to write back.
God Bless!
Elder Greg Madden