“I Want to Witness,   But  What Do I Say

                   To a Suicidal Person?” 

       When a person has suicidal thoughts, they are in the very worst place they can be in their lives, but Christians reading this can help.  First, pray for them. Bind the spirit of suicide, the devil’s lies, the spirits of rejection, grief, heaviness, and depression and bind the spirit of revenge in the name of Jesus Christ.  Loose upon them hope, love, peace, truth, His joy and His grace to forgive.  Pray a prayer of salvation or rededication with them if you can.  Stay with them. Be led by God and encourage them with the following edifying words…

God loves you and He wants you to live.  Your life is a gift from God.   He gave it to you and He wants you to keep it.  You may feel so crushed from your circum- stances, but God can make all things new.  Isaiah 43: 18-19 “Remember not the former things nor consider the things of old. Behold I will do a new thing…I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” God has a plan and a purpose for your life.  Jer. 29:11 says:  “I know the thoughts and the plans that I have for you.  They are good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”   Life is like a puzzle.   God can see the whole picture from His view, but you can only see a few puzzle pieces.  So trust God that He will put all the pieces together in His timing and in His way. What you are going through is temporary. 

Don’t Be Mad at God – God is on your side.  Be mad at the devil that influences people’s sinful acts, to reject you and hurt you. This is not God’s will. The devil is a liar who will cause people to sin against you and then tell you that it was God’s fault or His will to build a wall between you. But Jesus says in John 10:10: “The thief (the devil) comes not, but for to steal, to kill, and to destroy.  I Am come that they might have life and might have it more abundantly.”  So bad things come from the devil & good things come from God.  Do not get it mixed up.  God is a good God.

Remember that God gave every one a free will because love is not truly love unless it is freely given.  God wanted His creation to freely love Him. Robots have no choice, so they can’t give true love.  But many times people use their free will to sin against God & others.  

Forgive those that have hurt you. Now that is not letting them off the hook.  It is putting them on God’s hook.  It is taking your hands off the situation and allowing God’s hands to intervene & fight for you.  After you forgive, then stand on Rom 12:19: “’Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord.”    Unforgiveness is sin and so it builds a wall between you and God (Matt. 6:14). When you forgive those that have hurt you and trust the Lord, He will right the wrongs that have been done to you and turn things around  (Mark 11:25).God will bless you with new hope in His Presence with His great comfort, love, peace & joy as you sing and praise worship Him. So forgiving others sets you free. Remember Rom. 8:28:  “All things work together for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose.

  Be patient and give God time to move on your behalf.  Eccl. 3:11   Life is like a movie.  Trust in God to bring about your happy ending.  You are not a failure.   Because God is God, He can make plan B even better than what plan A ever would have been. God never fails. Choose to Live for the Lord. Friends come and go, divorce happens, parents and children can prematurely die, so we cannot live for them.  Our true purpose is to live for the Lord.  God needs you!  The harvest is plenteous and the laborers are few.  Living for the Lord means finding and fulfilling your God-given purpose, loving people, walking in the fruits of the spirit, witnessing to the lost, and giving to or going on mission trips.  Living for the Lord is overcoming evil with good.  It is turning people that are heading for hell around and pointing them towards God.

SALVATION PRAYER: “Heavenly Father, I believe You love me and that Your Son Jesus Christ died for me on the cross for my sins and rose from the dead.  Jesus, I repent of my sins and my suicidal thoughts and I ask You to forgive me and come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Thank You for loving me, for forgiving me, for saving me from hell and giving me eternal life in heaven.  Now fill me with the Holy Spirit.  In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

Jesus thanks you for witnessing!  This train tract was written by Susan Mulford, but ideas given by God. For train tracts on 50 other topics:  www.traintracts.com. E-mail a testimony J of how this train tract trained you to transition a conversation onto the Gospel track:  susan@traintracts.com Clipart courtesy of:  Microsoft Office Clipart 2003