Over the course of the past week she has been sharing with me about her family and home life. She lives in Kibera. When Mercy was young, her father died in a car accident. She was left with her younger sister and mother. A few years later, her mother got remarried and had two more children. However, her step-dad left them and took his two children with him a few years later. Just a year ago, Mercy's mother married again. This man is not a believer and is an alcoholic. Mercy says that her mother is always stressed out, always drunk, and her step-dad hits her mom. She described her home as unhappy, no laughing, no love. Her mother at times will lock her and her younger sister out of the house and throw their clothes out. Mercy even said that she doesn't think that her mother loves her.
I think that her mother has kind of given up. After a husband passing, a husband leaving, a long life in the largest slum in Africa, she has quit. She has given her life to alcohol, is probably depressed, and is staying with a man who abuses her.
Pray that Mercy will ultimately know that the Lord is her Father and her Mother who will always love her unconditionally.
Pray that she feels love and not unworthiness.
Pray that she, the only believer in the family, can be a light.
Pray that she can show undeserving love to her mother and step-father, like Christ loves us despite our sin.
Pray that Mercy step-father and mother don't put Mercy and her sister in an unsafe position, beat, or abuse them in their drunkenness.
Mercy is desiring another place to live, pray for the Lord's plan, to stay where she is or to move in with someone else.
Pray that the Lord changes Mercy's mother and step-father's hearts. It seems so far from happening right now, but the Spirit can work, pray for Him to.
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